Flood Risk Management and Civil Infrastructure
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Water Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (11 February 2023) | Viewed by 14015
Special Issue Editors
Interests: natural hazards; hydroinformatics; evapotranspiration
Interests: stochastic hydrology; hydroclimatology; statistical hydrology; data mining; riverine nutrients; precipitation frequency; flood frequency; climate change
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue aims to bring together researchers in the domain of flood risk management related to civil infrastructure. It will encompass the newly developed methods for flood risk assessment as well as the applications of existing approaches to quantify the flood-related risk within civil infrastructure facilities such as river reservoirs, water system facilities, flood embankments, roads, dams, etc.
Papers can address hydrological and analysis methods needed for flood risk assessment, with a focus on the observed, predicted or projected changes in recorded extreme precipitation and flood events. Moreover, this Special Issue will contain research regarding the flood risk quantification of existing or planned civil infrastructure (e.g., flood embankments, roads, dams) via the application of hydrological and hydraulics models. Papers will be invited on the general topics of reservoir flood risk examination under severe hydrological events alongside possible failures of the reservoir system elements. Moreover, the Issue will promote dam safety aspects through the planning or design phases, with consideration of potentially hazardous events caused by extreme flow conditions.
Innovation in the domain of flood risk management has already been adopted in many countries for dealing with the risks related to climate change and variability, as well as risks stemming from aging infrastructure. Civil infrastructure was designed under the assumption of climate stationarity, and therefore a great deal of financial resources are required for repair and maintenance. The goal of this Special Issue of Sustainability is to cover research and application studies regarding advances in flood risk management to cope with the aforementioned pressures, leading to an increase of civil infrastructure resilience and sustainability.
Prof. Dr. Slavisa Trajkovic
Prof. Dr. Momcilo Markus
Dr. Milan Stojković
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- flood risk assessment
- resilience
- climate change
- climate variability
- aging infrastructure
- built environment
- sustainability
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