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Climate Change Adaptation and Water Resources Management

A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 February 2025) | Viewed by 2123

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Dr. Enrique Rosales Asensio

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Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Campus de Tafira S/N, 35017 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Interests: water–energy nexus; energy efficiency; microgrids
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Dear Colleagues,

The aim of this Special Issue is twofold. On the one hand, this Special Issue aims to propose initiatives that address the impacts of climate change on the hydro-environment and monitor the adaptation measures undertaken in the water engineering sector, both structural and non-structural. On the other hand, another objective of this Special Issue is to improve our understanding of the relationship between water-related decisions, society and the environment. These science-based results need to be transferred to water management institutions and companies, which requires intensive cooperation between scientists and managers to ensure the sustainable use of water. The concept of sustainability, which is extenisvely employed in international declarations and documents, is very appealing; however, further analysis is needed to develop an operational concept that is suitable for daily water management. Therefore, the long-term aim of this Special Issue is to promote the application of advanced technologies that could address problems regarding environmentally sound water management and to advance interdisciplinary approaches in hydraulic engineering, with a particular focus on ecological concerns.

Dr. Enrique Rosales Asensio
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Keywords

  • climate change adaption
  • water resources management
  • water–energy nexus
  • hydraulic machinery
  • water quality
  • water security

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Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) for Sustainable Water Resource Management: A Future Flood Inundation Example
by Nick Martin, Francisco Peña and David Powers
Water 2025, 17(6), 816; https://doi.org/10.3390/w17060816 - 12 Mar 2025
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Sustainable decision making addresses resource and cost sharing among current and future generations. Adaptation costs are incurred by current and damage mitigation costs are borne by future generations. Circularity extends sustainability by including resource regeneration and benefits from resource re-use. Climate change and [...] Read more.
Sustainable decision making addresses resource and cost sharing among current and future generations. Adaptation costs are incurred by current and damage mitigation costs are borne by future generations. Circularity extends sustainability by including resource regeneration and benefits from resource re-use. Climate change and associated global warming are producing more frequent extreme events with different probabilities of occurrence than historically observed. Traditional approaches to asset and infrastructure design tend to be backward-looking for weather- and climate-related bases and to introduce too little variability to compensate for uncertainty, resulting in infrastructure that was designed for irrelevant future conditions. An example dynamic probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) for flood inundation is developed and implemented to examine the usefulness and limitations of PRA for sustainable water resource management. It specifically addresses the issue of sustainable decision making related to outdated but historically regulatory-compliant assets under non-stationary climatic conditions. Weather attribution provides improved extreme event frequency expectations to, generates the dynamic component of, and allows for incorporation of additional uncertainty to the PRA. Results from the PRA provide decision making optimization between current adaptation and future mitigation costs. A limitation of PRA is that it analyzes failure and risk and not benefits accruing from resource regeneration. Full article
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Study on the Characteristics and Attribution Analysis of Runoff Changes in the Zuli River Basin of Northwest China
by Rui Zhang, Na Li, Xiaoxia Lu, Heping Shu, Haolin Li, Zhi Xu and Qiang Wang
Water 2024, 16(23), 3526; https://doi.org/10.3390/w16233526 - 7 Dec 2024
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The consequence of climatic change and anthropogenic environmental modifications is a notable diminution in runoff across arid and semi-arid regions. For the sustainable management of regional water resources, it is crucial to comprehend the impacts of climatic and anthropogenic factors on runoff patterns. [...] Read more.
The consequence of climatic change and anthropogenic environmental modifications is a notable diminution in runoff across arid and semi-arid regions. For the sustainable management of regional water resources, it is crucial to comprehend the impacts of climatic and anthropogenic factors on runoff patterns. The Zuli River was designated as the study area for this study, and the Mann–Kendall test, double cumulative curve method, slope change ratio of cumulative quantity method, and elasticity coefficient method were employed to identify mutation points and to quantify the relative impacts of climatic variation and human activities on runoff. The results revealed a statistically insignificant downward trend in mean annual precipitation, a significant declining trend in runoff, and an evident increasing trend in potential evapotranspiration and temperature between the years 1957 and 2019. The analysis revealed that the point of sudden change in runoff at Huining station occurred in 1992, whereas the mutation point at Guo Chengyi station was identified in 1985 and that at Jingyuan station in 1995. The contribution of climate change to runoff was found to range from 28.7% to 58.5%, while the contribution of human activities to runoff ranged from 41.5% to 71.3%, based on different methodologies. Therefore, human activities were recognized as the main factor affecting the variations in runoff within the Zuli River Basin, while climate change acts as a secondary contributor. The results of the study hold considerable importance for enhancing the scientific understanding of hydrological processes within the basin and for guiding regional water administration strategies. Full article
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