Hydrologically Induced Landslides: Mechanisms and Risk Assessment
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Hydrogeology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 November 2026 | Viewed by 265
Editors
Interests: landslides; hydro-mechanical coupling; numerical simulations in geomechanics; stability evaluation; rock mechanics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Hydrological processes play a pivotal role in the initiation, deformation, and failure of landslides. Under climate change, the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme rainfall events, together with disturbances caused by hydropower development, transportation infrastructure construction, and urban expansion in mountainous areas, have significantly amplified the hydrological and hydrodynamic effects controlling slope stability. Rainfall infiltration, reservoir water-level fluctuations, groundwater seepage, and pore pressure changes interact with complex topographic, geomorphological, and geotechnical conditions, thereby profoundly influencing the triggering, deformation evolution, and hazard characteristics of landslides. Therefore, improving our understanding of these processes—as well as their related monitoring, early warning, and risk assessment methods—is of great importance for engineering safety and disaster prevention and mitigation, especially in vulnerable mountainous and reservoir regions.
This Special Issue, entitled “Hydrologically Induced Landslides: Mechanisms and Risk Assessment”, aims to provide an interdisciplinary platform for recent advances in both fundamental research and engineering applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: landslide deformation and failure mechanisms; seepage evolution; hydrodynamic response processes; monitoring and sensing technologies; numerical modeling and simulation; early warning and forecasting methods; and hazard and risk assessment. Original research articles, review papers, and case studies related to hydrologically induced landslides are welcome.
Dr. Long Yan
Dr. Jun Yu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- landslides
- hydrologically induced landslides
- deformation mechanism
- seepage evolution
- monitoring and early warning
- numerical modeling
- risk assessment
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