Environmental impact assessment of dam-break floods considering multiple influencing factors

Editorial: Risk assessment and management of water conservancy projects

“…Water conservancy projects play extremely important roles in flood control (Ge et al, 2022), power generation, irrigation, water supply and shipping, and in promoting social and economic development and reducing carbon emissions. The construction, operation and decommissioning of water conservancy projects all have huge impacts on society and the environment (Zhang et al, 2022). In addition, due to the natural and human factors, such as super standard flood (Wu et al, 2021;Liu et al, 2022), natural aging (Zhang et al, 2023a), earthquake and improper management caused by extreme meteorological conditions, water conservancy projects are always faced with the risk of failure.…”