Dear Colleagues,

Hydrological hazards, or ‘hydrohazards’, represent extreme events associated with the occurrence, movement, and distribution of water. They occur as a result of too much water (e.g., coastal flooding, tidal surges, high precipitation, and river overtopping) or too little (high temperatures and low precipitation). Creating a resilient, sustainable, water-secure future depends on our understanding of hydrohazards and the associated risks. The nonstationary nature of future climate leads to uncertainty in the prediction of hydrohazards, and it is essential to capture the impact of this uncertainty in hydrohazard assessment. Risks arising from these natural hazards and their associated future uncertainties must be fed into decision-making in the design of engineering and policy interventions, alongside a wide range of social and technical influences, to be truly effective. This Special Issue calls for papers which help to understand, quantify, and propose solutions to the challenge of changing hydrohazards for future water management. In particular, we are interested in submissions that consider the impact to settlements and cities. 

This Special Issue focusses on research into the impact of climate change on hydrohazards. Submissions should push the envelope and demonstrate a holistic approach (systems thinking). Suggested topics include: 

• Impact of climate change on urban areas;
• Mapping-projected hydrohazards and their uncertainties to specific locations;
• Exploration of multiple possible future scenarios, in terms of natural and societal aspects;
• Novel, post-hazard engineering or adaptation responses;
• Focus on decision support, in the design of engineering/policy interventions to increase urban resilience;
• Quantification of how urban vulnerability to hydrohazards may change over time;
• Novel methodologies, or applications of novel data, toward the above points—including, e.g., multimodel approaches, participatory methods.

Dr. Lindsay Beevers
Dr. Annie Visser-Quinn
Dr. Melissa Bedinger
Guest Editors

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• climate change
• hydrohazards
• uncertainty
• adaptation
• vulnerability
• cities
• urban areas
• settlements