Regional Climate Change: Impacts and Risk Management

Dear Colleagues,

Climate change is considered one of the most dangerous risks facing current and future generations and can have significant impacts on both civilizations and ecosystems.

Among the risks associated with climate change, drought has been recognized as a serious disaster that is widely spotlighted around the world. Droughts are caused by a lack of water due to less precipitation. Droughts are challenging to manage, particularly in the short-term, because they are continuous, wide-ranging, and long-term. Furthermore, it is difficult to define the start and end of the drought. Consequently, strategies to minimize drought damage and the development of countermeasures for future drought-prone areas are vital.

This Special Issue of Applied Sciences entitled “Regional Climate Change: Impacts and Risk Management” welcomes topics including, but not limited to, observational and model-based studies that could provide useful information for water resources management, infrastructure design, decision-making, and policy to achieve our goals of enhancing the resilience of human-environment systems to climate change and increased variability.

Prof. Dr. Jong-Suk Kim
Prof. Dr. Joo-Heon Lee
Dr. Changhyun Jun
Dr. Sunkwon Yoon
Guest Editors

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