Vulnerability Assessment of Agro-Systems to Hydroclimatic Extremes
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water and Climate Change".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 July 2024 | Viewed by 143
Special Issue Editors
Interests: hydraulics and water resources engineering; hydrology; climate change; risk analysis and extreme hydrological events
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Interests: water resources management; hydraulic engineering; heuristic models
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Within the climate change reality, the understanding of how hydroclimatic extremes could impact agricultural systems is assumed to be a priority, since they play a crucial role in ensuring food and nutrition security for humanity. The United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) has given a lot of importance to risk management and vulnerability in the context of its thematic issues on water, sanitation, and human settlements in its 2004–2005 cycle, repeating this concern in its 2006–2007 cycle but in the context of drought and desertification.
Currently, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development recognizes and reaffirms the urgent need to reduce the risk of disasters, such as those from the hydro-climatological field, by incrementing knowledge about the vulnerability assessment as a first step.
This Special Issue will focus on highlighting ongoing research and new methodologies in this field in order to improve the resilience of agricultural systems as well as the management of extreme hydroclimatic impacts, facilitating the decision-making process and, consequently, promoting society's resilience.
Within this framework, the Guest Editors of this Special Issue would like to invite original research contributions that emphasize the following areas:
- Regulatory frameworks on territorial planning regarding the establishment of more resilient agricultural systems;
- Early warning systems for hydroclimatic disaster management;
- Communicational strategies for the improvement of the understanding on hydro-climatological impacts to stakeholders and decision makers at regional scale using case studies;
- Techniques to improve cultures’ resilience to hydroclimatic extremes;
- New approaches on (a) the prevention and mitigation of hydroclimatic extremes and (b) adaptation strategies for future climate scenarios;
Submissions of both general methodological contributions as well as case studies in different regions around the world covering a wide range of agro-systems with different spatial scales and climatic frameworks are strongly encouraged.
Dr. João Filipe Santos
Dr. Inmaculada Pulido-Calvo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- hydroclimatic extremes
- innovative techniques on risk assessment
- agro-systems resilience
- incorporation of future climate change scenarios in the development of vulnerability assessment
