"Watershed–Urban" Flooding and Waterlogging Disasters
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Hydrology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 24 April 2026 | Viewed by 26
Special Issue Editors
Interests: urban hydrology; flood disaster; hydrologic process; urban waterlogging; urban rainwater harvesting; stormwater management; disaster risk assessment
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: urban water cycle; Climate change; Hydrometeorology; Hydrothermal coupling; Basin hydrology
Interests: stormwater management; operation optimization; artificial intelligence
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Collaborative research on basin–urban flood disasters is of crucial significance and is an urgent necessity for enhancing disaster prevention and mitigation capabilities. Extreme rainfall and flood evolution in the upstream basin directly constrain the flood risk of the urban area, while the hardened urban surface and drainage behavior have significantly changed the runoff generation and collection patterns of floods. This dynamic interaction often leads to a sharp amplification of disasters in the intersection area. Collaborative research can integrate natural and social systems, integrate meteorological–hydrological–water dynamic models and urban infrastructure data, and systematically reveal the disaster-causing mechanism of the "basin–urban" composite system, accurately simulating the spread of floods and the process of internal flooding. The main research topics include river basin floods, urban waterlogging, urban flood disaster, urban stormwater management, urban low-impact development, sponge city design and construction, urban hydrological cycles, urban water security, urban water resources, urban rainwater harvesting, urban water environments and water ecology, cause analysis of urban flood disasters, disaster loss evaluation, rainstorm–flood emergency technology, urban rainstorm–flood countermeasures, risk assessment and management of urban flood disasters, etc. Research articles, review articles, or other articles in related fields and research topics are highly welcome.
Dr. Jinjun Zhou
Dr. Zhuoran Luo
Dr. Shengwei Pei
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- river basin flood
- urban hydrology
- urban flood
- urban waterlogging
- low-impact development
- sponge city
- urban stormwater management
- urban flood damage
- flood hazard risk
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