Climate Change Impacts on Urban Watershed Hydrology and Water Resources
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Water Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 6 February 2026 | Viewed by 1997
Special Issue Editor
Interests: urban water systems; integrated water resource management; risk assessment of water infrastructure; hydroinformatics; hydrological modeling; climate change adaptation
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Dear Colleagues,
Water-related challenges are increasingly prominent worldwide due to climate change, population growth, and the overexploitation of freshwater resources, and efforts have been made to control and manage hydrology and water quality in urban watersheds affected by urban development. However, climate change poses a potential threat by exacerbating precipitation patterns and hydrological extremes and many regions face extreme events such as droughts and floods. While the impact of climate change on water resources has been extensively documented, its specific effects on urban hydrology and interactions with water resources remain less studied.
This Special Issue aims to publish high-quality studies investigating the impact of climatic factors on hydrological regimes and water resources within urban watersheds and considers changes in surface runoff, groundwater storage, and the function of water infrastructure based on current trends and future projections. Contributions may include methodology development, literature reviews, models, applied analyses, and case studies related to climate change impacts. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, urban water management, stormwater systems, flood modeling, integrated water resource management, nature-based solutions, climate change adaptation and mitigation, urban water availability, water quality, urban green infrastructure, and AI applications.
Dr. Abbas Roozbahani
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- urban water management
- urban river basin
- climate change
- stormwater
- water resources
- water availability
- urban hydrology
- hydrological modeling
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