Flood and Storm-Induced Cascade Disasters: Effects, Risks, Resilience, and Adaptive Strategies
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water and Climate Change".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 September 2025 | Viewed by 537
Special Issue Editor
Interests: extreme events; flash flooding; flood mortality; risk perception; hydrogeomorphological disasters; landslides
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Dear Colleagues,
Floods and storms are among the most devastating natural hazards, often triggering serious cascading effects such as landslides, infrastructure failures, public health crises, contamination of water resources, and many others. As climate change intensifies extreme weather events, the frequency and severity of these disasters continue to rise, posing significant threats to communities, ecosystems, and human societies and economies worldwide. Understanding the complex interactions between hydrometeorological hazards and their cascading effects is crucial for developing effective risk assessment, mitigation, and adaptation strategies, especially in light of climate change.
This Special Issue aims to bring together cutting-edge research on the mechanisms, impacts, and management of cascading disasters and the effects of floods, storms, and other water-related hazards. We welcome contributions that address innovative modeling approaches, field studies, risk assessments, and policy solutions which aim to enhance resilience and the capacity to adapt. Special attention will be given to interdisciplinary studies that integrate disaster and risk science, as well as hydrology, engineering, social sciences, and climate adaptation strategies.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Mechanisms and dynamics of flood- and storm-induced cascade disasters;
- Impact propagation pathways leading to different cascade/domino effects;
- Climate change and its role in intensifying cascade disasters;
- Multi-hazard risk assessment and early warning systems related to cascade effects;
- Critical infrastructure, infrastructure resilience, interdependencies, and adaptation strategies;
- Socioeconomic and environmental impacts of cascading disasters;
- Case studies and lessons learned from past flood and storm disasters;
- Interconnectedness of modern societies and their vulnerability to cascade effects.
We invite researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to contribute original research articles, case studies, and review papers that enhance the understanding and management of these critical challenges.
Dr. Michalis Diakakis
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- floods
- storms
- cascade disasters
- cascade effects
- domino effects
- impacts
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