Management and Assessment of Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems Under Climate Change
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Urban Water Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 September 2026 | Viewed by 127
Special Issue Editors
Interests: water resources management; climate change adaptation; sustainable urban drainage; real time flood forecasting; mountain hydrology; community-based participatory research; public engagement
Interests: sustainable urban drainage; hydrologic–hydraulic modeling; stochastic models; copula functions; flood modeling; flooding risk mitigation; water resource management
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Ongoing urbanization and climate non‑stationarity challenge existing urban drainage systems and can increase the flood risk of communities and assets located in floodplain areas. Sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS), including nature‑based solutions, are frequently suggested as co‑benefit measures to reduce flood risk while delivering ecosystem services, enhancing water quality, and generating socio‑economic benefits. However, several issues involving their design, applicability, durability, and catchment‑scale effectiveness remain unresolved. Therefore, this special issue intends to collect novel research and contributions on the management and assessment of SUDS, namely design criteria, estimates of long‑term performance and resilience against climate non‑stationarity, and performance‑uncertainty analyses of structural practices, along with discussion of the applicability and effectiveness of non‑structural practices.
We welcome studies that may include, but are not limited to, multi‑site or long‑term empirical datasets, model intercomparisons under multiple climate projections, explicit catchment‑scale upscaling validated against observations, or quantitative co‑benefit valuations. Multi‑method and model‑comparison research exploiting alternative approaches, namely field experiments, laboratory studies, analytical–probabilistic methods, Monte Carlo simulations, and event‑based or continuous hydrologic‑hydraulic simulations, is encouraged. Submissions that promote reproducibility (data/code availability), discuss transferability of case‑study analyses, or supply actionable guidelines are especially welcome.
Dr. Giovanna Grossi
Dr. Matteo Balistrocchi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- urban drainage
- climate non-stationarity
- structural flood risk mitigation measures
- non-structural flood risk mitigation measures
- field and laboratory experiments
- hydrologic–hydraulic modeling
- stochastic modeling
- long-term performance assessment
- resilience assessment
- uncertainty analysis
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