Urban Stormwater Management with Blue–Green Infrastructure
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Urban Water Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2026 | Viewed by 57
Special Issue Editor
Interests: urban planning; stormwater management; landscape architecture; generative algorithms; nature-based solutions
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Dear Colleagues,
Rapid urbanization and climate change are reshaping the hydrological processes of cities, leading to more frequent pluvial flooding, runoff pollution, and growing pressure on conventional drainage systems. Against this backdrop, blue–green infrastructure has gained increasing attention as an effective and sustainable approach to urban stormwater management. By integrating ecological processes with engineered interventions, blue–green infrastructure can support runoff retention, flood mitigation, water quality improvement, and broader urban resilience.
This Special Issue aims to bring together recent advances in theory, methodology, and practice related to Urban Stormwater Management with Blue–Green Infrastructure. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, sponge city strategies, low-impact development, sustainable urban drainage systems, nature-based solutions, urban flood modeling, stormwater quality control, multi-functional landscape design, climate adaptation planning, and AI- or data-driven approaches for system assessment, optimization, and decision support. Contributions that link scientific innovation with planning practice, policy implementation, and long-term resilience governance are particularly welcome.
By providing an interdisciplinary platform for researchers and practitioners, this Special Issue seeks to advance knowledge on how blue–green infrastructure can support more adaptive, resilient, and sustainable urban water systems.
Dr. Shiqi Zhou
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- urban stormwater management
- blue–green infrastructure
- sponge city
- low-impact development
- sustainable urban drainage systems
- nature-based solutions
- urban flooding
- stormwater quality
- climate adaptation
- resilient cities
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