New Challenges in Hydrological Modelling and Water Resources Management

A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance".

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Dear Colleagues,

I would like to invite you to submit your latest research findings to our upcoming edition of Water (IF 3.4, ISSN 2073-4441), entitled New Challenges in Hydrological Modelling and Water Resources Management (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/water). Submissions should include studies that advance the current state of knowledge or critical reviews of existing models and practices.

Concern about water management is widespread. While the world population has tripled during the last century, in recent decades it has become increasingly evident that the water problems of a country, or of a basin for the purposes of management, can no longer be resolved via the exclusive participation of water professionals and special  administrations. Water issues increasingly connected by intertwined disciplines, to which we must add social, economic, environmental, legal and political considerations, at different regional, national or international scales. The topic is closely linked to water, territory, and production, which materializes with the elaboration of updated management models. These are useful for researchers and for the administration of water resources and can be considered as a public and strategic good. This Special Issue aims to collect recent advances on new challenges in hydrological modelling and water resources management. These include, but are not limited to, the following themes:

(I) Models of water management, conflicts and mediation in hydrographic basins; (II) new tools for water resources management based on hydro-economic models; (III) proposals for guidelines for a rational and sustainable management of water, land, energy and other related resource;  (IV) hydrological models in large basins and small catchments aimed at natural risk management; (V) water, energy and risk, advanced models for sustainable management.

Dr. Jesús Mateo-Lázaro
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Keywords

  • conflicts and mediation
  • hydro-economic models
  • guidelines for water management
  • models of water resources
  • water, energy and risk

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Research on Bi-Level Objective Programming Model of Water Resources Uncertainty Based on Water Rights Trading—A Case Study of the Yehe Irrigation District in Hebei Province, China
by Shuoxin Li, Meiqin Suo, Leilei Fan and Dongkun Liu
Water 2024, 16(12), 1751; https://doi.org/10.3390/w16121751 - 20 Jun 2024
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Water resource allocation systems typically involve multi-level decision-making, with each level having distinct goals and interests, while being influenced by various factors such as social, economic, environmental, and policy planning. The decision-making in water resource allocation systems is characterized by complex uncertainty factors [...] Read more.
Water resource allocation systems typically involve multi-level decision-making, with each level having distinct goals and interests, while being influenced by various factors such as social, economic, environmental, and policy planning. The decision-making in water resource allocation systems is characterized by complex uncertainty factors and dynamic changes. In light of this, this study integrates stochastic chance-constrained programming, dynamic programming, bi-level programming, goal programming, and water rights trading to construct a bi-level objective programming model of water resource uncertainty based on water rights trading. The model not only effectively represents the random uncertainty, dynamic characteristics, interests of decision-making levels, and planning requirements of policies in water resource allocation systems but also utilizes market mechanisms to enable compensated transfer of water rights, fully leveraging the role of water rights marketization in water resource allocation. Taking the Yehe River Irrigation District in Hebei Province of China as an illustrative case study, the specific allocation scheme of each stage under the guaranteed rate of 50% in 2025 and the water rights trading results of each sub-region are obtained. Compared with the bi-level objective programming model of water resources uncertainty without water rights trading, the results show that the water consumption per CNY ten thousand GDP(WG)of the irrigation district decreased by 3.42%, and the economic benefits of Luquan District, Jingxing County, Pingshan County, and Yuanshi County in each sub-region increased by 19.17%, 7.19%, 15.11%, and 4.94%, respectively. This improves regional water use efficiency and economic benefits and provides a scientific basis for regional water resource allocation. Full article
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