Flood Risks, Vulnerability and Governance
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainability in Geographic Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 October 2020) | Viewed by 16033
Special Issue Editors
Interests: watershed management; flood risk analysis; climate change and water resources
Interests: forest technical works; hydrological and hydraulic modeling; soil erosion; flood prevent works; mountainous water management and control; flood monitoring
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Flood risk management constitutes a key issue throughout the world, at a regional as well as national level, influencing human lives and activities. The majority of floods are unlikely to be fully predicted, but it is feasible to reduce the intensity, vulnerability, and the resulting risks, through appropriate infrastructure management, construction plans, and governance. The continuously increasing trend of flash flood phenomena and their devastating effects worldwide require constant improvements in flood risk management and modelling. These phenomena often have serious negative consequences for humans, such as infrastructure, property, and crops destruction, with significant financial cost for repairs/restoration/rehabilition, and sometimes human lives are lost. Over the past years, considerable effort has been made to predict flood risk and to simulate flood events, using hydrological and hydraulic models and estimate the flood vulnerability. However, these models require a large rainfall time series, reliable stream flow, and rainfall data, which, in most areas, are not available, especially in medium- and small-scale watersheds. To overcome these practical difficulties, scientists and policy makers throughout the world use many different methodologies in order to estimate flood risk and vulnerability.
Within this frame, the Special Issue of Sustainability, “Flood Risk, Vulnerability, and Governance”, calls for innovative research papers, case studies, and applied flood management strategies that will advance and improve the knowledge that concerns the relation between the flood risk and human interference in natural environment, watershed, floodplain, and river management. Also, we welcome papers within the topics of innovative flood mapping and modelling, flood risk infrastructure and planning, improvement of flood management system and reducing flood risk, enhancing public safety, and innovative flood emergency warnings.
Prof. Dr. Dimitrios Stathis
Dr. Aristeidis Kastridis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- flood risk management
- flood vulnerability
- flash flood
- hydraulic modelling
- hydrological modeling
- floodplain management
- flood policies
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