Frontiers in Urban Water Infrastructure
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Urban Water Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2021) | Viewed by 7087
Special Issue Editors
Interests: hydroinformatics; intelligent systems; scientific computing; scientific visualization; data analytics
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Interests: fluvial hydraulics; hydrometry; non-intrusive measurement instrumentation; information and decision-support system for flood mitigation
Interests: water resources management; water engineering; water resources engineering; information technology; hydrological modeling; hydraulics; integrated water resources management; watershed hydrology; hydraulic engineering; software engineering
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This highly-urbanized population will face vulnerability to water-related hazards in many ways. Recent extreme events such as flooding, drought, morphologic instabilities, and water pollution combined with the ongoing climate change have severely threatened the security, sustainability, and maintenance of urban water infrastructures, such as water supply, storm drainage, wastewater system, and hydraulic structures. Due to the complex interactions of human activity and the hydrological processes, ensuring urban water security requires comprehensive planning processes that address urban water hazards and sustainable design and management of urban infrastructure using a holistic approach. With the recent advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) and better environmental monitoring systems, the planning approach often requires the collection and curation of large amounts of disparate data and reliable data-driven analytics that may be co-evolutionary and integrable to traditional environmental modeling approaches.
This special issue invites articles that present innovative approaches to study the socioeconomic impacts of water-related hazards on urbanization, as well as to improve the design, maintenance, and retrofitting of urban water infrastructure for better urban water security and sustainable management of water resources. Theoretical or empirical or experimental, or data-driven studies are welcomed. Appropriate topics may include but are not limited to: (1) Impacts of water-related hazards on water infrastructures and hydraulic structures, (2) mitigation, adaptation, and infrastructure design and retrofitting strategies for improving the community preparedness and resilience of urban water system, (3) social-technical dimension for integrated water resources management, such as public engagement, education, and collaborative planning, and (4) multi-criteria and multi-objective decision support for the operation and design of urban water system.
Prof. Dr. Ibrahim Demir
Prof. Dr. Marian Muste
Dr. Haowen Xu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- urban water security
- hazard mitigation
- integrated water resources management
- urban water infrastructure
- hydraulic structure
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