Watershed Hydrology and Management Under Changing Climate, 2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

Over the last 20 years, global climate change and the underlying surface changes have worsened. The basin's hydrological process has shown some concerning traits, such as non-stationarity, spatial heterogeneity, and interactive complexity, especially when human activities are taken into account. These characteristics have led to responsive changes in the ecohydrological process, the interaction process of surface water and groundwater, the spatiotemporal evolution process of drought and flood events, and the harmony between humans and water in the basin. This will surely present major challenges to water-related hazard prevention, hydrological modeling and forecasting, and the sustainable management of water resources under a changing climate. To solve these problems and encourage both harmony between humans and water and the high-quality growth of watersheds, scientists need to learn more about the hydrological changes that are happening in watersheds as a result of climate change and identify with better adaptive ways to deal with and manage them.

This special Issue seeks contributions involving innovative methodologies or relevant case studies addressing cutting-edge challenges in watershed management, eco-hydrology, and climate adaptation. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

(1) Comprehensive responses of watershed hydrological processes to climate change and underlying surface changes;

(2) Novel methodology for watershed hydrological modeling and forecasting;

(3) New insights for watershed ecohydrological processes and environmental flow management;

(4) Efficient strategies for watershed drought and flood risk management;

(5) Watershed socio-hydrology and new approaches for improving harmony between humans and water;

(6) Adaptive watershed water resources management and digital watershed system construction;

(7) Integrated assessment and dynamic coupling mechanisms of watershed water–energy–food–ecology (WEFE) systems;

(8) Realization of ecological benefits and ecological product value of water and soil conservation in small watersheds.

Prof. Dr. Hongbo Zhang
Dr. Jie Yang
Guest Editors

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