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Flooding is widely recognized as a global threat, due to the extent and magnitude of damage it causes around the world each year. Reducing flood risk and improving flood resilience are two closely related aspects of flood management. This book presents the latest advances in flood risk and resilience management on the following themes: hazard and risk analysis, flood behaviour analysis, assessment frameworks and metrics and intervention strategies. It can help the reader to understand the current challenges in flood management and the development of sustainable flood management interventions to reduce the social, economic and environmental consequences from flooding.

History of engineering & technology --- nonstationarity --- univariate model --- GAMLSS --- bivariate model --- copulas --- floodway --- optimization --- particle swarm optimization --- HEC-RAS --- flood mitigation --- hydraulic modeling --- flood risk perception --- natural flood management --- disaster mitigation --- flood-prone city --- questionnaire survey --- flood hazard --- land use --- urban growth --- Villahermosa --- architecture modelling flood resilience --- resilience engineering --- system-of-systems water systems --- multi-risk matrix --- resilience --- flood risk --- multi-hazard --- risk reduction --- flood resilience index --- flood resilience analysis --- urban floods --- flood risk assessment --- flood inundation modelling --- Artificial Intelligence --- machine learning --- flood --- preparedness --- flood resilience --- blue-green infrastructure --- flood risk management --- sustainable --- drainage systems --- systems --- flood control materials --- intelligent warehousing --- location allocation --- multi-objective optimization --- drone applications --- deployment time --- monitoring --- flood modelling --- evacuation --- rescue --- management strategy --- metrics

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The reprint identifies key concerns and significant challenges of the future as currently perceived by researchers, industry, policymakers, and other flood management stakeholders. The main themes addressed include: science and technology for flood risk management; handling data and information for flood risk management; flood disaster prevention, mitigation, and adaptation; flood preparedness, response, and recovery; flood decision-making, policy, and governance; and flood resilience.

Technology: general issues --- History of engineering & technology --- Conservation of buildings & building materials --- flooding --- storm surge --- numerical modelling --- high-water marks --- debris --- distributed hydrological model --- flood forecasting --- TOPKAPI --- Zhenjiang River --- small- and medium-sized river --- OSS-SR --- facilitator --- flood resilience --- disaster literacy --- community-based --- e-learning --- extreme floods --- disaster chain --- impact assessment --- flood damage --- environmental impacts --- unsteady flows --- flood wave propagation --- Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers --- index-velocity method --- stage-discharge method --- rating curves --- flood risk management --- innovations --- dikes --- flood decision-making --- knowledge uptake --- historical data source --- flood mapping --- poorly gauged catchments --- citizen science --- low impact development --- sea-level rise --- adaptation --- flood risk --- water resources --- low-lying coasts --- extreme rain --- pluvial flood --- basement flood --- wastewater --- inflow and infiltration --- Canada --- flood management issues --- natural disasters --- climate change --- government policies --- flood hazard --- CaMa-Flood --- flood map viewer --- floodplain mapping

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The school of thought surrounding the urban ecosystem has increasingly become in vogue among researchers worldwide. Since half of the world’s population lives in cities, urban ecosystem services have become essential to human health and wellbeing. Rapid urban growth has forced sustainable urban developers to rethink important steps by updating and, to some degree, recreating the human–ecosystem service linkage. Assessing, as well as estimating the losses of ecosystem services can denote the essential effects of urbanization and increasingly indicate where cities fall short. This book contains 13 thoroughly refereed contributions published within the Special Issue “Urban Ecosystem Services”. The book addresses topics such as nature-based solutions, green space planning, green infrastructure, rain gardens, climate change, and more. The contributions highlight new findings for landscape architects, urban planners, and policymakers. Important future cities research is considered by looking at the system connectivity between the social and ecological sphere—via varying forms of urban planning, management, and governance. The book is supported by methods and models that utilize an urban sustainability and ecosystem service-centric focus by adding knowledge-base and real-world solutions into the urbanization phenomenon.

urban planning --- urban space --- urban regeneration --- planning process --- public participation --- forest fragmentation --- sustainable development goal (SDG) --- land consumption rate to the population growth rate (LCRPGR) --- biodiversity --- non-native species --- protected species --- range expansion --- species distributions --- ecosystem services --- assessment --- urban ecosystem services --- site --- green infrastructure --- cities --- systematic literature review --- urban greenspace --- privatization --- property rights --- incremental greenspace loss --- the tyranny of small decisions --- resilience planning --- urban densification --- baseline shifts --- urban nature connection --- green spaces --- ecosystem disservices --- economic benefits --- proximity principle --- hedonic pricing analysis --- climate change --- human health, human-nature connection theory --- urbanization --- urban resilience theory --- capacity building --- municipal planning practice --- urban governance --- environmental planning --- nature-based solutions --- urban adaptive capacity --- LiDAR/NDVI --- stakeholders --- Delphi analysis --- full-scale infiltration test --- MPD infiltration test --- boreholes --- SuDS --- NBS --- flood resilience --- online climate adaptation platforms --- citizen science --- community-building --- n/a

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Global population growth is urban growth and, therefore, most of the water-related challenges and solutions reside in cities. Unless water management and water governance processes are significantly improved within the next decade or so, cities are likely to face serious and prolonged water insecurity, urban floods, and/or heat stress, which may result in social instability and, ultimately, massive migration. Aging water infrastructure, one of the most expensive infrastructures in cities, is a relevant challenge in order to address Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6: clean water and sanitation, SDG 11: sustainable cities and communities, and SDG 13: climate action. The choice of good governance arrangements has important consequences for economic performance, for the well-being of citizens, and for the quality of life in urban areas. The better governance arrangements work in coordinating policies across jurisdictions and policy fields, the better the outcomes. Rapidly-changing global conditions will make future water governance more complex than ever before in human history, and expectations are that water governance and water management will change more during the next 20 years compared to the past 100 years. In this Special Issue of Water, the focus will be on practical concepts and tools for water management and water governance, with a focus on cities.

flood resilience --- flood risk --- Cape Town --- Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) --- sustainable development goals --- urban planning --- coordination --- IHP --- storm water management --- stakeholder involvement --- flood risk management --- water management sustainability --- Generalized Likelihood Uncertainty Estimation (GLUE) --- climate change --- urban water cycle --- wastewater management --- water policy --- governance capacity --- greenhouse gas emissions --- intergovernmental --- Urban Water Management Programme --- indicators --- sustainability --- city networks --- water sensitive cities --- water scarcity --- ICLEI --- flood damage assessment --- stakeholder participation --- SuDS --- climate change mitigation --- social network analysis --- water ecology --- SDGs --- urban resilience --- design rainfall event --- cost of inaction --- rainwater harvesting --- co-design --- UNESCO --- rainfall-runoff --- storm water control measure --- decentralized water reclamation with resource recovery --- baseline assessment --- City Blueprint Approach --- urban water management --- urban landscape --- governance strategies --- science and technology --- drinking water --- Integrated Water Resources Management --- resilience --- Sponge City --- stormwater reservoir --- use-attainment --- sustainability assessment --- water security --- Water-Energy-Food Nexus --- water management --- water supply --- Storm Water Management Model (SWMM) --- urban drainage --- lifecycle analysis --- social infrastructure --- urban pluvial flooding --- assessment framework --- footprint --- climate change adaptation --- infrastructure --- total cost of ownership --- water governance --- flood control --- water-reuse --- governance