Special Issue on Urban Stormwater Management and Flood Mitigation Strategies

Introduction:

This special issue focuses on the evolving fields of sustainable stormwater management and flood resilience enhancement in a changing environment, as well as on the efforts on spatiotemporal flood simulation and  performance assessment of stormwater control measures. The hydrological/hydraulic/ecological processes involved in urban stormwater management and flood mitigation strategies by implementing end-of-pipe facilities, low impact development practices, blue-green-gray infrastructure, and nature-based solutions are of interest for analysis, modeling, and evaluation using up-to-date advanced techniques.

We aim for this special issue to provide instructive guidance for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to address pressing urban stormwater quantity and quality issues and flood risk challenges.

Topics Covered:

• Urban stormwater management
• Urban flood risk mitigation/adaptation strategies under climate change
• Flood resilience of urban drainage system
• Flood control, modelling and risk assessment
• Sponge city/Low impact development/Green infrastructure
• Integrated green-grey-blue infrastructure system
• Nature-based solution
• AI-based methods for modeling urban flood dynamics/stormwater control systems
• Performance evaluation of stormwater control measures
• Rainwater harvesting and and sustainable water reuse
• Fate, transport, and ecological risks of emerging contaminants in stormwater facilities
• Eco-hydrological benefits of stormwater control measures
• Modelling of hydrological/hydraulic/ecological processes

Important Deadline:

Submission deadline: December 31st, 2026

Submission Instructions: 

Please read the Guide for Authors | HydroResearch before submitting. All articles should be submitted online – Editorial Manager®, please select "SI: XXX" on submission. All submissions will undergo a normal peer-review process.

Guest Editors: 

Jun Wang, Shandong University, Jinan,wangjunwater@sdu.edu.cn

Yao Chen, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing, chenyao@cqjtu.edu.cn

Wen Liu, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, liuwen@lzb.ac.cn

Jinhui Jeanne Huang, Nankai University, Tianjin, huangj@nankai.edu.cn

Target Journals:

• Water Cycle
• Water & Ecology
• Water-Energy Nexus
• Watershed Ecology and the Environment
• Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology
• Emerging Contaminants

About Journal:

HydroResearch is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that features original research papers, short communications, review articles and book reviews in the broader field of hydrology, ecohydrology, hydrobiology, hydrogeochemistry, hydrometeorology, water resources and water environment, including water management and policy issues.

The journal has been indexed by Scopus, DOAJ, GEOBASE, CAS, CABI, with a 2025 Citescore of 9.8, ranked Top 10% in categories of Aquatic Science and Earth-Surface Processes.

HydroResearch Research Excellence Award, a distinguished honor recognizing remarkable breakthroughs and research excellence has opened now.

Journal website: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/hydroresearch

Submission entry: https://www2.cloud.editorialmanager.com/hydres/default2.aspx

Contact email: caozheng@keaipublishing.com