Risk and Emergency Management of Urban Rainstorm Flood Disasters
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Urban Water Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 March 2024) | Viewed by 230
Special Issue Editors
Interests: urban rainstorm and flood modelling; flood risk assessment; flood emergency management; extreme hydrological events; water resources adaptive management; climate change impacts
Interests: flood disaster management; flood risk assessment; flood emergency management; flood disaster evacuation system; water network analysis and design; extreme hydrological events
Interests: deep learning; information fusion; image processing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Under the combined effects of climate change and accelerated urbanization, urban rainstorms and flood disasters have become increasingly frequent and widespread for most cities around the world, seriously impeding the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Global warming has affected the local climate characteristics, resulting in more frequent and short-duration heavy rainfall. Simultaneously, construction processes carried out for further urbanization produce a significant amount of domestic and industrial heat that leads to instability in the urban atmosphere, causing “urban heat island” and “urban rain island” effects, thus increasing the risk of high-intensity urban rainstorms and flood events. For instance, the rainstorms and flood events “7.20” of 2021 in Zhengzhou City, Henan province, and “23.7” in the Haihe River basin caused severe casualties, economic losses, social and environmental damage.
Given this context, it has become rather imperative to formulate measures that will aid in accurately and scientifically assessing rainstorm flood risk and emergency preparedness. This Special Issue aims to collate papers that broadly focuses on the aforementioned area, particularly the ones that integrate advanced information technology and intelligent algorithm in urban rainstorm flood management. Potential topics for submissions include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Extreme rainstorm and flood analysis;
- Urban rainstorm and flood modeling;
- Urban rainstorm and flood risk management;
- Urban rainstorm and flood emergency management;
- Urban rainstorm and flood resilience;
- Trans-regional and trans-basin flood;
- Urban heat island and rain island effects;
- Urban Sustainable Development Goals.
Prof. Dr. Rengui Jiang
Prof. Dr. Fawen Li
Dr. Mingxiang Yang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- flood risk management
- flood emergency management
- rainstorm flood characteristic
- flood resilience
- trans-regional and trans-basin flood
- urban SDGs
- extreme climate events
- advanced information technology
- intelligent algorithm
