Understanding Disasters in a Changing Landscape: Causes, Impacts and Mitigation Strategies
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Soil-Sediment-Water Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2024 | Viewed by 2578
Special Issue Editors
Interests: mountainous water management; hydrogeomorphology; hydrometeorology; flood risk analysis; flash floods; urban floods; flood management and control
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Interests: rainfall-runoff simulation; flood routing through rivers and reservoirs; floods in large hydrologic basins with existence of dams and functioning of hydraulic engineering works; hydrodynamic and environmental simulations
Interests: flood modelling and mapping; extreme hydrological events; flood early warning; mountain river training; mountainous water management; surface hydrology; erosion and sediment transport processes; GIS applications in hydrology; uncertainty analysis in hydrology; water resources management; flash floods; flood management and control
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue invites contributions that delve into the multifaceted realm of land-related disasters and their aftermath. We are increasingly seeing climate or human-driven changes in land cover or land uses, which are often accompanied by risks that are difficult to predict, model, assess in terms of their complex impacts, and mitigate.
Land change-related hazards include floods, soil erosion, sediment transport, geomorphological changes, and landslides that occur after, e.g., wildfires, desertification, or other human-driven alterations, such as deforestation and urbanization. Such hazards are associated with vast economic losses, extensive infrastructure damage, and the loss of human lives.
This call encourages interdisciplinary research, from fields such as environmental science, geography, geology, engineering, and urban planning. We invite scholars, researchers, and practitioners to contribute their insights, methodologies, and innovative solutions to foster a deeper understanding of the broader spectrum of land-related disasters and promote resilient communities. A cross-disciplinary, geographically extended, and gender-balanced group of experts will be invited to contribute to this novel call, with papers related to the improved understanding of land-related changes and their subsequent natural hazards, in terms of modelling, new technologies and applications, management, impact assessment, risk evaluation, mitigation strategies, and state-of-the-art advances in the recent literature.
The present Special Issue is expected to be a novel, broad, and interdisciplinary call, addressing an emerging issue that has received limited attention in the literature so far, as the post-land use change impacts and hazards span across the broad readership of the Land journal.
Prof. Dr. Fotis Maris
Prof. Dr. Panagiotis Angelidis
Dr. George Papaioannou
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- floods
- soil erosion
- landslide
- sediment dynamics
- wildfire-induced changes in land use patterns
- post-disaster rehabilitation and resilience building
- modelling advances in flood, soil erosion, sediment, or landslide hazards, impacts, and mitigation
- technological innovations for early warning systems
- land-related hazards and risk assessment
- geomorphology changes after land alternations
- wildfires
- impact assessment
- mitigation strategies
- uncertainty
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