Ecohydrology - process oriented thinking for sustainability of river basins

The ecological and hydrological processes together with the observed global changes should be considered while formulating the strategy for sustainable development. The step forward is to increase carrying capacity of the ecosystems by enhancing the key ecohydrological processes acting in the biogeosphere. The integration of knowledge and information among disciplines is a prerequisite to generate wisdom followed by well-informed and well-planned actions. This was the rationale for the 2nd Conference on Healthy Rivers and Sustainable Water Resource Management that took place in Chongqing, China, in October 2011; and the papers selected for this issue follow the same idea. Short summaries of each of them is given at the end of this article.