Planning and Operations of Adaptive Multi-Objective Multi-Reservoir Systems

Dear Colleagues,

River and reservoirs are an important part of complex water resources systems contributing to supplying water for different consumptive and non-consumptive water users including domestic, industrial, irrigation, navigation, recreation, hydroelectric generation, flood control, and water quality-related uses as well as sustained ecological, environmental, and ecosystem services. Considering the impacts of global warming and climate change in re-enforcing meteorological and hydrological non-stationarities, new challenges have emerged, making optimal design and operation of these complex, multipurpose multi-component systems more challenging.

Multi-objective optimization, systems analysis, and hydroinformatics tools and approaches are of particular interest to solving and addressing these challenges in river–reservoir systems. This Special Issue calls for original quality papers and contributions on any of the abovementioned tools and approaches applied to a broad range of hydrosystems, especially those derived from actual practice. Included are urban water systems, irrigation systems, hydropower systems, basin-scale water allocation systems, transboundary water systems, etc., where rivers and reservoirs play a significant role, with multiple objectives and robust management systems. We especially welcome articles from practitioners of the various successful methods involving both public and private water systems in addition to discussions of policies that have not worked well and the future challenges as identified by these practitioners.

The planning horizon for optimal design and operation problems addressed could be from short- to long-term horizons, taking into account a number of important issues involved such as adaptation, uncertainty, stakeholder participations, and socioeconomic modeling. Works in coupled human–natural systems and agent-based modeling approaches applied to river–reservoir systems are also welcome. In order for us to compare various methods on the same problem we have provided a sample data for which some results are available from literature (means and standard deviations are possible benefits for comparison purposes) here: https://doi.org/10.5683/SP2/QEB9LT.

Prof. Dr. Kumaraswamy Ponnambalam
Prof. Dr. Jamshid Mousavi
Guest Editors

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