Special Issue: Water Engineering and Management in a Changing Environment
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Special Issue: Water Engineering and Management in a Changing Environment Antonino Cancelliere & Giuseppe Rossi
Received: 29 December 2012 / Accepted: 2 January 2013 / Published online: 6 March 2013 # Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Abstract The paper is the introduction to the special issue Water Engineering and Management in a Changing Environment which presents a set of the most innovative contributions at the EWRA Symposium, held in Catania, Italy on 2011. Keywords Climate changes . Analysis and mitigation of drought . Flood modelling . Economics of water allocation and reuse . Reliability and sustainability in water systems
1 The Focus of the 6th EWRA Symposium The 6th European Water Resources Association Symposium, held in Catania, Italy, on June 29- July 1st, 2011, covered a wide range of key topics related to water under the general title “Water Engineering and Management in a Changing Environment”. More than 100 papers were presented at the conference, as well as five invited lectures and more than 40 abstracts. This special issue aims at disseminating the most innovative contributions presented at the EWRA Symposium, keeping in mind that the increasing complexity of water systems and their interactions with economic, environmental and social systems drives the water management scientific community to encompass specific disciplines within a broader approach in order to achieve an integrated, sustainable and equitable water use and an effective protection of society from water-related disasters. Under this paradigm, most of the recent scientific conferences and symposia, as well as the mega conferences, such as World Water Forums of Istanbul (2009) and Marseille (2012), focus on the necessity to explore the links between technical water engineering and management issues and legislative-institutional frameworks, environmental protection programs and political strategies aimed to pursue an equitable use of resources and to improve A. Cancelliere : G. Rossi (*) Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Catania, Viale A. Doria 6, 95125 Catania, Italy e-mail: [email protected] A. Cancelliere e-mail: [email protected]
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the resilience of society to the global changes and to the water related risks. Thus, new ideas are more and more accepted in the scientific arena, broadly synthesized by statements such as: “Solutions for water problems require to look out from water box” or “Decision-making processes on planning, operation and control of water systems need a larger citizenship mobilization and the recognition of the priority of ethic principles by the general public”. The selected papers from the EWRA Symposium presented in this issue deal with different topics related to water resources management and protection from hydrological extremes and several of them adopt multidisciplinary approaches. The main key topics include impacts of climate and global changes, drought and water scarcity analysis and mitigation, hydrological and hydrauli
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