Intelligent Regulation and Adaptive Management of Complex River Basin Systems
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: 25 February 2026 | Viewed by 45
Special Issue Editor
Interests: reservoir operation; water resource evolution; hydrological non-uniformity; attribution analysis; extreme wet–dry events; water resource risk analysis; hydrological and hydrodynamic modeling; multi-energy complementarity of hydropower, wind, photovoltaic, and energy storage; comprehensive management of rivers and lakes
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
River basins, as complex socio-hydrological systems, face challenges including climate-driven hydrological non-stationarity, extreme rainstorms/droughts, wetland degradation, and new energy integration complexities. Central to these issues are imbalances in water resources, the environment, and ecology (“three waters”) across reservoirs, lakes, and river networks with sluice-pump systems. This Special Issue seeks innovations in intelligent, adaptive management to address these challenges.
Topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Coupled “three-waters” modeling and ecological responses in reservoir–lake–river systems;
- Multi-objective adaptive scheduling for hydropower cascades under non-stationary runoff and wind–solar constraints;
- Storm similarity-based flood/drought early warning and smart sluice–pump control;
- Joint reservoir–lake strategies for flood–drought–water quality hazard coupling;
- Digital twin/AI tools for complex system regulation;
- Climate-adaptive water allocation and cross-unit coordination.
Dr. Yu Zhang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- river basin socio-hydrological system
- extreme hydrological events and non-stationarity (extreme rainstorms/droughts)
- three-waters coupling (water resources–environment–ecology)
- intelligent adaptive management
- reservoir–lake–river system
- digital twin and AI technologies
- climate-adaptive water resource allocation
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