Climate Extremes: Human-Environment Consequences and Adaptation Measures
A special issue of Climate (ISSN 2225-1154).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2022) | Viewed by 39318
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Interests: renewable energy; hydropower impacts; water management; ecohydrology; ecohydraulic; river restoration; climate change
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Dear Colleagues,
Climate change due to global warming is no longer a modeling assumption but something that is happening and affecting our lives in different aspects. Climate change affects the temporal and spatial variability of meteorological components, such as precipitation, temperature, and alters the hydrologic cycle, i.e., evapotranspiration, runoff, flow discharge in rivers, and groundwater budget, at different levels. These meteorohydrologic alterations result in extreme events such as floods and droughts, which in turn lead to numerous devastating consequences in the environment and in humans. Flushing away entire settlements, wildfires, agriculture droughts, and hydrologic droughts, impairing society and the ecosystem at different trophic levels are some of the most common consequences. Both flood and drought event frequency has been continuously increasing in recent decades. Therefore, it is imperative to improve our knowledge of management and adaptation measure policies. This Special Issue aims in particular to stimulate interdisciplinary research among different fields such as economics, hydrology, integrated water resource management and transboundary water cooperation, integrated flood and drought risk management, geology, geotechnics, natural hazard policies and legislation, sociology, geography, and their interactions in different regions of the world. Moreover, this Special Issue aims to generate cutting-edge knowledge, methods, and procedures of extreme event management. Innovative measures to mitigate and adapt to the effects of extreme events are essential, in particular, in sensitive areas. A better understanding of extreme event mechanisms is essential to obtain strategically relevant information that supports correct decision making and implementation of appropriate environmental adaptation and/or protection measures. In a broad view, interesting topics include but are not limited to floods, landslides, meteorological droughts, hydrological droughts, agriculture droughts, wildfires, several other climate-related hazards like typhoons/cyclones/hurricanes, heatwaves, and most importantly adaptation measures related to respective extremes. Thus, it is the right moment to focus on new research areas that link sustainable development, climate change, and disaster risks.
Dr. Alban Kuriqi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- floods
- droughts
- landslides
- debris flows
- wildfires
- ecology
- water resource
- urban flooding
- urban stormwater
- urban hydrological modeling
- climate change drivers
- climate change adaptation
- the resilience of agricultural production
- adaptation measures
- mitigation measures
- hydrology
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