Dear Colleagues, 

Floods are the most common natural hazard in the world, leading to loss of life and extensive property damage (public or private). Many factors can increase both frequency and intensity of floods, driven by natural (weather-related) and human causes (e.g., urbanization). Moreover, global changes (both climate and land use) are increasing the risk of extreme weather events, which may enhance the severe effects on communities, the economy, and the environment. Thus, it is important to build awareness in communities and engage all citizens and stakeholders in the planning process, prepare response strategies based on scientific knowledge of possible impacts under distinct global change scenarios, and forecast the potential socio-economic and environmental impacts. Despite a large number of studies regarding floods, there are still knowledge gaps regarding flood forecasting and prevention. There is a need for interdisciplinary flood management at all phases: risk assessment, adaptation, and planning and implementation of measures.

This Special Issue will present recent advances in tools to assess floods and discuss governance models required to establish land use and climate change sustainable policies on floods. Manuscripts investigating the following topics are of interest for this Special Issue:

• Monitoring hydrological data and flood impacts (field survey, climate, and land use);
• Flood modeling: advances in hydrodynamic modeling techniques;
• Flood risk assessment for past conditions and future climate and land-use change scenarios;
• Research on vulnerability and resilience, including case studies of best practices implementation;
• Assessment of the impact of structural and non-structural actions to mitigate floods, including grey infrastructures and/or nature-based solutions, how they perform, and advantages and/or disadvantages;
• Novel advances on early warning systems;
• Flood management integrated planning in a changing climate;
• Tools and methods for supporting decision- and policy-making related to climate change adaptation and flood risk reduction;
• Understanding the socio-political context and legal structures that determine the opportunities and limitations to provide water retention in private land;
• Enhancing communication between all actors to improve flood management;
• Scientist and citizens joined in pushing forward policies that deal with environmental, social, and economic issues related to floods (including compensation measures, flood insurance, implementation of solutions);
• Governance aspects of flood management.

Prof. Dr. Sandra Mourato
Dr. Carla Ferreira
Guest Editors

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• Global changes
• Flood risk
• Vulnerability
• Adaptation
• Resilience
• Stakeholder
• Governance and planning