Water-Related Geoenvironmental Issues

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue collects articles from the research on fundamental and up-to-date scientific results related to water-related geoenvironmental issues. Articles are welcome on topics associated with numerical modeling, spatiotemporal modeling, data fusion, and field investigation using hydrogeological approaches, geophysical approaches, geochemical approaches, and remote sensing. We also welcome studies associated with groundwater contamination transport and remediation, geothermal energy exchange, and geological disasters and environmental disasters evaluation and prevention. We especially encourage water-related geoenvironmental studies that solve multi-scale and interdisciplinary problems.

This Special Issue focuses on, but is not limited to, the following aspects:

• Mechanisms of rainfall-induced landslides and debris flow;
• Numerical modeling of instability processes;
• Field and laboratory investigations of groundwater flow and stability;
• Groundwater and soil contamination transport and remediation;
• Rock and soil heterogeneity and its engineering application;
• Geological disaster prevention;
• Underground engineering construction;
• Geological disaster risk assessment;
• Stability evaluation and utilization of rock and soil;
• Geological environmental protection;
• The stability of the surrounding rock system of large underground water-sealed caverns;
• Evaluation and design of underground water-sealed and energy-storage caverns;
• Theoretical and experimental study on the stability evaluation of complex slope rock mass;
• Hydrological processes in hillslopes;
• Sampling approaches for slope stability analyses.

Prof. Dr. Echuan Yan
Prof. Dr. Ming Zhang
Dr. Jingsen Cai
Guest Editors

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