The Sustainable Development of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Resources and Sustainable Utilization".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (17 April 2024) | Viewed by 1319
Special Issue Editors
Interests: ccohydraulics; hydraulic engineering; hydrodynamics
Interests: water ecology and environment; habitat restoration; reservoir operation
Interests: hydraulics and river dynamics; water-related disaster and environmental research in mountain rivers
Interests: water ecology and environment; hydraulics; water resources engineering; water engineering; hydraulic engineering; hydraulic modelling
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The development of hydropower stations is the main method for utilizing water resources worldwide. Hydropower provides services for water resource deployment, clean energy storage and disaster prevention. As a mature and stable renewable energy technology, hydropower remains at the centre of the sustainable development goals. However, the development of hydropower has inevitably altered the natural environment of rivers and has driven changes in habitat conditions, thereby negatively impacting river ecosystems; these changes include longitudinal connectivity loss, water depletion downstream of the diversion and variations in the water temperature. The impact of the cumulative effects and unpredictable nature of reservoir operation on the whole river basin causes several challenges in terms of eco-environmental restoration and eco-friendly engineering technology. To maintain the sustainable development of hydropower, recent research has made remarkable efforts in the field of adaptive management; it has created linkages between the flow regime and ecosystem processes, analyzed hydropower’s cumulative effects on hydrological regime in the context of climate change and hydropower development, has conducted reservoir ecological operation experiments, has constructed environmental flow theories and produced hydraulic engineering measures for conservation, has considered the hydrodynamic process of flood discharge and energy dissipation, and has examined water-related disasters in mountain and urban areas.
The Special Issue focuses on the advancement of sustainable hydraulic engineering and water resource management, and welcomes the contribution of reviews, approaches, ideas, and technologies.
Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Water ecology and environment
- Habitat restoration
- Reservoir operation
- Ecohydraulics
- Eco-friendly hydraulic engineering.
- Hydrodynamics
- Water-related disasters
Dr. Tiegang Zheng
Dr. Junqiang Lin
Dr. Zhipan Niu
Dr. Wei Huang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- reservoir operation
- water temperature
- habitat protection
- ecological restoration
- river hydraulics
- fish pass
