Geo-computation and Spatial Big Data Application for Sustainable Management of Hydrometeorological Hazards: Methodological Innovations, Mitigation Strategies; Case Studies and Best Practices

Dear Colleagues,

Focus:

The increasing interdependencies and coexistence among humans, nature, and society often make the complex socioecological system fragile and susceptible to external extremities, including natural and human-induced hazards. There has been ample evidence of an increasing trend of occurrence and intensity of hydrometeorological hazards that includes both meteorological and hydrological extremes across small to large spatial scales. Given the cascading impacts of various hydrometeorological hazards (HMZs), ranging from tropical and extratropical cyclonic storms, pluvial and fluvial flooding, coastal storm surges, drought, heatwaves, landslides, wildfires, cold waves, local climatic storms, etc., the requirement of a detailed analysis of those hazards and generation of cost-effective preventive solutions of HMZs are of paramount importance. The recent progress in advanced data-driven technologies exacerbates the practical application of monitoring and modeling approaches to mitigate HMZs, making HMZ decision support systems more achievable and trustworthy. Considering the existing state-of-the-art methods for managing HMZs, the present Special Issue aims to explore cross-disciplinary knowledge and scientific discourses that can collectively advance the current practices by providing more scalable solutions embedded with realistic and achievable outcomes.

Scope:

The sole objective and scope of the Special Issue is to offer a novel, more sustainable, and cost-effective solutions to mitigate the risk of HMZs by providing a clear and detailed roadmap for practical implementation of the suggested solutions. The inclusion of cross-disciplinary ideas and approaches in the solution strategies can effectively reduce the augmented impact of HMZs in the long run. Hence, the Special Issue invites innovative contributions in terms of both original and review studies supported by either thorough monitoring or descriptive/analytical modeling and covering any of the following topics:

• Fluvial Floods in both natural and urban areas;
• Pluvial floods in both natural and urban areas;
• Flash floods in mountainous areas;
• Cloud burst and associated consequences;
• Coastal storm surges in coastal periphery areas;
• Innovations and sustainable solutions for urban flood risk;
• Practical strategies for urban stormwater management;
• Draught impact and control across the ecosystems;
• Desertification and effective management strategies;
• Tropical cyclonic storms from micro- to mesoscale and development of resilient community support system;
• Temperate storms from local to regional scale and effective management strategies;
• Local climatic storms;
• Dust storm in arid regions and management strategies;
• Soil loss and resulting consequences on ecosystem productivity;
• Urban heatwave and management strategies;
• Cold wave;
• Landslide and slope failure and effective mitigation strategies;
• Wildfires/forest fires/bush fires.

Purpose:

The present Special Issue expects to collect scientific discussion, innovative ideas, best practices, and cost-effective solutions that are embedded in both ecosystem/data-driven approaches and achievable management alternatives to provide a fresh overview of the state-of-the-art methods, techniques, and strategies for sustainably managing the risk of HMZs. This Special Issue also expects to receive articles that offer scalable and actionable multidisciplinary perspectives and have the potentiality to be applied in solving real-life problems. Additionally, studies that provide a critical discussion on the existing policies and decision support systems for managing HMZs effectively are also welcome.

Dr. Basu Bidroha
Prof. Dr. Laurence Gill
Prof. Dr. Francesco Pilla
Dr. Srikanta Sannigrahi
Guest Editors

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