Advances in Crisis and Risk Management of Extreme Floods
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Hydrology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 April 2025 | Viewed by 1251
Special Issue Editors
Interests: urban hydrology; urban resilience; rainfall-runoff modelling; flood inundation modelling; flood forecasting; calibration
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Interests: flood statistics; flood generation; flood forecasting; climate change; regionalisation
Interests: marine geotechnics; soil-water and soil-structure interaction; reliability design and assessment in geotechnical engineering
Interests: water resources management and forecasting; forecasting uncertainty; catchment hydrology; climate change impact analysis; floods; drought; Bayesian analysis
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Modern flood crisis and risk management frameworks can be categorized into four phases depending on the time interval before/after a disaster occurs. While mitigation and preparedness take place before the event and are arguably more risk management orientated, response and recovery strategies take place during and after the event and are often defined in more detail within a crisis management framework.
In flood risk management, a distinction is often made between structural and non-structural measures. Structural (or conventional) measures include larger structures that have a significant impact on the natural course of the river. Non-structural measures focus instead on making the best possible use of the natural processes of the river. Flood crises measures range from forecasting and warning, through response during the event, to recovery measures after the event. However, it should be mentioned that forecasting is not limited to weather or flood predictions but can also include cascading effects such as landslides or the failure of critical infrastructure.
Over the past ten years, governance and resilience building have emerged as important tools for preventing, preparing, responding and managing crises. Here too, a paradigm shift is underway. Existing risk management could move to a more resilience-focused framework in which governance plays a greater role. Government institutions play a central role in how countries adapt to and recover from complex shocks. Building resilience is probably the best way forward, where crises in general, including multinational issues such as climate change, economic stress, geopolitical crises and extreme floods, will become common features of our near future.
This Special Issue on “Advances in Crisis and Risk Management of Extreme Floods” therefore encourages the submission of manuscripts that explicitly address the following key topics:
- Emergency management (mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery)
- Crisis and risk management
- Resilience and Risk assessment
- Community resilience and governance
- Forecasting and simulation
- Impact assessment
- Induced landslides and critical infrastructure failures
- Nature based flood risk management
Prof. Dr. Jorge Leandro
Dr. Svenja Fischer
Prof. Dr. Kerstin Lesny
Prof. Dr. Paolo Reggiani
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- mitigation
- preparedness
- response
- recovery management
- resilience and risk
- community resilienc
- governance
- forecasting
- numerical simulation
- induced landslides
- critical infrastructure
- nature based solutions
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