Advanced Approaches to Urban Flood Risk Management and Water-Body Conservation

Dear Colleagues,

Global climate change is intensifying, with extreme rainstorm events becoming frequent. Coupled with the advancement of urbanization, problems such as surface hardening of water storage space have become prominent, leading to a continuous rise in urban flood risks. Many cities suffer from flood disasters caused by excessive rainfall, threatening people’s livelihood security and urban operations. Meanwhile, the combination of sewer overflow and the superposition of point and non-point source pollution during the flood season results in fluctuating and deteriorating urban water quality, as well as degraded aquatic ecology, which not only damages the urban ecological base but also restricts sustainable development.

This Special Issue will focus on new methods and technologies to address urban flood management and water body conversation, including but not limited to:

• Urban flood simulation;
• Urban flood risk assessment and management;
• Nature-based sustainable flood mitigation measures;
• Variation characteristics of urban aquatic ecosystem services under the influence of natural and human activities;
• Urban water quality simulation;
• Urban water body system governance and restoration;
• Urban water ecosystem risk and conversation.

Dr. Cheng Gao
Dr. Hui Xu
Guest Editors

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