Part I. Water-Related Risks under Climate Change: 1. Pluvial, fluvial, and coastal flood risks and sustainable flood management in the Pearl River Delta under climate change Jianfeng Li, Xiaogang Shi, Yongqin David Chen and Yangchen Lai; 2. Flooding risk in the Lancang-Mekong River Basin under global change Xiaobo Yun, Jie Wang, Huan Wu, Binod Baniya, Hui Lu, Siao Sun, Ximeng Xu, Xingcai Liu and Qiuhong Tang; 3. Spatial drought patterns in East Africa Gebremedhin Gebremeskel Haile, Qiuhong Tang and Binod Baniya; 4. Assessment of global water erosion vulnerability under climate change Muqi Xiong and Guoyong Leng; 5. Water erosion and its controlling factors in the Anthropocene Ximeng Xu and Qiuhong Tang; 6. Climate change impacts on saltwater intrusion into coastal aquifers Han Xiao, Haiming Li, Yin Tang, Qiuhong Tang and Marwan Kheimi; Part II. Climate Risk to Human and Natural Systems: 7. Observed urban effects on temperature and precipitation in Southeast China Siao Sun, Guangdong Li and Qiuhong Tang; 8. Vegetation dynamics, land use and ecological risk in response to NDVI and climate change in Nepal Binod Baniya, Qiuhong Tang, Gyan Chhipi-Shrestha, Hom Bahadur Baniya and Gebremedhin Gebremeskel Haile; 9. Climate warming induced frozen soil changes and the corresponding environmental effect on the Tibetan Plateau: a review Yunyun Ban, Qiuhong Tang and Ximeng Xu; 10. A review of the effects of climate extremes on agriculture production Xiaomeng Yin and Guoyong Leng; 11. Agricultural water use estimation and impact assessment on the water system in China Mengfei Mu, Qiuhong Tang, Ximing Cai, Siao Sun and Huijuan Cui; 12. Impact of inter-basin water transfer on water scarcity in water-receiving area under global warming: a case study of the south-to-north water diversion project Yuanyuan Yin, Qiuhong Tang and Lei Wang; 13. Broadening and deepening the rainfall-induced landslide detection: practices and perspectives at a global scale Guoqiang Jia, Qiuhong Tang, Stefano Luigi Gariano, Massimo Melillo, Ximeng Xu, Guoyong Leng and Xu Li; 14. Estimating aquifer depth in arid and semi-arid watersheds using statistical modeling of spectral MODIS products Seyed Rashid Fallah Shamsi, Parisa Ansari, Masoud Masoudi and Hamid Reza Pourghasemi; Part III. Sustainable Water Management under Future Uncertainty: 15. Managing urban flood risk and building resilience in a changing climate Yueling Wang, Qiuhong Tang and Nigel Wright; 16. Soft computing methods and water management Mohammad Zounemat-Kermani and Meysam Alizamir; 17. Rainwater harvesting for sustainable water resource management under climate change Ram L. Ray, Rajendra P. Sishodia and Tolulope Olutimehin; 18. Variability of runoff coefficient and precipitation elasticity at watersheds across China Yin Tang, Qiuhong Tang and Zhonggen Wang; 19. Contribution of hydrological model calibration uncertainty to future hydrological projections over various temporal scales - a case study in the Boulder Creek watershed Qinghuan Zhang, Qiuhong Tang, Guoyong Leng and Seyed-Mohammad Hosseini-Moghari; 20. Future water scarcity over the Yellow River basin and the effects of adaptive measures Zhongwei Huang, Qiuhong Tang and Yuanyuan Yin; 21. Shrinking Lake Urmia: causes, future projection, and implications Seyed-Mohammad Hosseini-Moghari, Qiuhong Tang, Guoyong Leng and Ximeng Xu; Index.
