Special Issue "Damaging Hydrogeological Events"
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Hydrology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2019) | Viewed by 26643
Special Issue Editors
Interests: natural hazards; floods; landslides; climate change

Interests: hydrology; climatology; climate change; natural hazards; land use change; forest ecology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Damaging hydrogeological events (DHE) are periods of severe weather conditions affecting wide areas for several days, during which landslides, floods, storm surges, hail, wind, and lightning can cause huge damage and victims. The exponential growth of DHE that occurred worldwide in the last few decades may be related to the increasing frequency and magnitude of natural dangerous phenomena as a direct consequence of climate change, thus demanding a deep understanding of events development, interaction with urbanisation, and management procedures allowing to mitigate damage.
This Special Issue of Water aims to analyse all the types of phenomena causing damage during these events (landslides, floods, storm surges, wind, etc.), either singularly or in the complex framework of cascading effects that characterizes some DHE (i.e., landslide blooking river couse). The focus can be either on the metereological framework preceding the events or on the difficult recognition of the effects and damage of the events. Within this aim, interdisciplinary original research articles highlighting new ideas, study approaches, and innovations allowing efficient forecasting and management of DHE are welcomed.
Potential topics of this Special Issue of Water include, but are not limited to:
- Case studies and comparative studies in different parts of the world;
- New approaches to quantify risk and uncertainty;
- Effects of land-use or land-cover change on DHE;
- Strategies for reducing the vulnerability to DHE;
- The effect of climate change on DHE;
- Hydrogeologicl risk.
Dr. Olga Petrucci
Dr. Tommaso Caloiero
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Damaging hydrogeological events
- Natural hazard
- Hazard assessment
- Risk analysis and management
- Modeling
- Validation
- Uncertainty
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