Harmonizing Urban Resilience: Exploring the Potential of Nature-Based Solutions in Mitigating Urban Flooding
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 October 2024) | Viewed by 5836
Special Issue Editors
Interests: green infrastructure; low impact development; landscape planning; stormwater management; nature-based solution
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Interests: machine learning in hydrology; spatiotemporal data mining; remote sensing applications; streamflow and runoff prediction; climate change impact assessment
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Urban flood disasters caused by heavy rain or storm surges have resulted in severe losses of life and property worldwide, posing serious threats to social–economic development. Due to fast urbanization and global climate change, the magnitude, frequency, and intensity of urban flooding susceptibility is expected to continuously increase, and therefore, urban areas must increase their resilience and capacity to deal with urban floods. Nature-based solutions (NBS) are an effective way to mitigate urban flooding by using natural and artificial ecosystem services to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, including ecosystem-based approaches such as ecosystem-based adaptation, ecosystem-based disaster risk mitigation, natural infrastructure, green infrastructure, and nature-based climate change solutions. Therefore, contributions to this Special Issue are expected to include the use of NBS to mitigate urban flooding and the evaluation of their performance.
Dr. Mo Wang
Dr. Rana Muhammad Adnan Ikram
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- urban flooding
- nature-based solutions
- green infrastructure
- sustainable cities
- ecosystem services
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