The Journal of River Basin Management (JRBM) plays a specific role in promoting a cross-sectorial approach encompassing all aspects of river and floodplain management, with a truly global perspective. The Journal is a response by the scientific and professional community to the World Water Vision and calls for an integrated approach to water resources management. 

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Overview

The new year of the International Journal of River Basin Management starts with a new and intriguing collection of manuscripts. Issue 1 of JRBM Volume 23 reports on a variety of topics connected to river basin management, spanning from conflict management and risk management to flood mapping and water quality.

A few papers collected in this Issue investigated the role of precipitation forecasts in generating extreme conditions, such as the ones observed during the monsoon season in India. Forecasting was analysed using multiple approaches, which can also be extended to other fields, as demonstrated in the works presented here. Moving from rain, other papers addressed flood risk mapping in rivers, as well as the role of groundwater in water resources at the basin scale. In addition to manuscripts focusing on engineering and physical aspects, JRBM Issue 1(23) proposes also insights on conflict and risk management under hydrological stress, a hot topic in light of climate change and water-driven human relocation.

From this short overview, one can see that all articles collected here are worth reading, as they report and discuss the actual state-of-art in the management of water systems from a variety of viewpoints, showing both knowledge gaps and solutions that can be of interest worldwide.

Articles

• Flood susceptibility mapping using fuzzy analytical hierarchy process for Cedar Rapids, Iowa
  Beyza Atiye Cikmaz, Enes Yildirim and Ibrahim Demir
  Pages: 1-13 | DOI: 10.1080/15715124.2023.2216936

• A process-based hydrological model for continuous multi-year simulations of large-scale watersheds
  Marcela Politano, Antonio Arenas and Larry Weber
  Pages: 15-28 | DOI: 10.1080/15715124.2023.2216937

• Post-processing quantitative precipitation forecasts using the seasonally coherent calibration model
  Nibedita Samal, R. Ashwin, Qichun Yang, Ankit Singh, Sanjeev Kumar Jha and Q. J. Wang
  Pages: 29-43 | DOI: 10.1080/15715124.2023.2218094

• Colorado River Basin: conflict management under hydrologic stress and institutional gridlock
  Neil S. Grigg
  Pages: 45-53 | DOI: 10.1080/15715124.2023.2229802

• Development of a watershed health assessment framework integrating ecological, social, cultural, economic and policy attributes
  Shella I. Talampas, Sangam Shrestha, S. Mohanasundaram and Ho Huu Loc
  Pages: 55-69 | DOI: 10.1080/15715124.2023.2242830

• Streamflow prediction in ungauged basins located within data-scarce areas using XGBoost: role of feature engineering and explainability
  M. H. Alipour
  Pages: 71-92 | DOI: 10.1080/15715124.2023.2245809

• Assessment of river response to water abstractions in the Weyib Watershed, Ethiopia
  Mesfin Reta Aredo, Tarun Kumar Lohani and Abdella Kemal Mohammed
  Pages: 93-104 | DOI: 10.1080/15715124.2023.2248488

• Risk management and components’ coordination assessment in the design of a composite riverine flood defence system
  Masoume Behrouz and Saeed Alimohammadi
  Pages: 105-121 | DOI: 10.1080/15715124.2023.2249436

• Fuzzy inference system for environmental vulnerability assessment of protected areas: a case study of the Itupararanga environmental protection area in southeastern Brazil
  Pedro Henrique de Godoy Fernandes, Tatiana Acácio da Silva, Miqueias Lima Duarte, Jackson de Sousa and Francisco Antônio Dupas
  Pages: 123-138 | DOI: 10.1080/15715124.2023.2260361

• Identifying groundwater prospect zones through earth observation techniques in Bilate watershed, Rift Valley Lakes Basin, Ethiopia
  Demisachew Yilma, Samuel Dagalo Hatiye, Behailu Hussien and Karuturi Venkata Suryabhagavan
  Pages: 139-157 | DOI: 10.1080/15715124.2023.2264268

• Towards the selection of a longer record of quantitative precipitation forecast dataset from TIGGE ensembles for India during the monsoon season
  Ankit Singh, Akshay Singhal, R. Ashwin, Nibedita Samal, Ripunjay Pandey and Sanjeev Kumar Jha
  Pages: 159-181 | DOI: 10.1080/15715124.2023.2270971

• Sequential riparian vegetation alteration in Japanese river landscapes
  Takashi Asaeda, Diego García de Jalón, Matthew O’Hare and Mizanur Rahman
  Pages: 183-195 | DOI: 10.1080/15715124.2023.2273843