Hazards and Sustainability
A section of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Section Information
The purpose of the section is to study and manage hazards and reduce the damage they create. Hazards can be natural, anthropogenic, or a combination of the two. Natural hazards can be classified into several broad categories: geological, hydrological, and meteorological hazards. Anthropogenic hazards mainly include fires and acid rain.
Disasters are taking a heavy toll and affecting individuals, communities, and countries worldwide. In response to hazards, we must carry out disaster risk management to reduce disaster risks and enhance resilience.
Keywords
- Natural hazards and sustainability:
- Geological hazards: earthquakes, landslides, debris flow, flash floods, volcanoes, collapses, rock falls, etc.
- Hydrological hazards: floods, droughts, marine disasters, tsunamis, storm surges, etc.
- Meteorological hazards: severe weather, storms, hurricanes, typhoons, tornadoes, sandstorms, climate change, global warming, greenhouse gas emissions, lightning, heavy fog, haze, hailstones, etc.
- Anthropogenic hazards and sustainability: fires, acid rain, etc.
- Disaster risk management and sustainability: resilience, reconstruction, emergency management, safety engineering, natural hazard assessment, disaster mitigation, sustainable risk management, disaster risk reduction, post-disaster recovery/restoration, disaster resilient communities, etc.
Editorial Board
Topical Advisory Panel
Special Issues
Following special issues within this section are currently open for submissions:
- Volcanic Hazard Assessment and Sustainable Development (Deadline: 30 March 2024)
- Carbon Accounting and Management: Challenges of the Decarbonization Scenario and the Pandemic (Deadline: 31 March 2024)
- Intelligent Technologies for Understanding and Controlling the Impact of Geological Disasters on Construction (Deadline: 2 April 2024)
- Sustainable Disaster Risk Management: Transformative and Resilient Practices (Deadline: 6 April 2024)
- Hydrometeorological Risk Assessment for Sustainable Urban Environment (Deadline: 10 April 2024)
- Emergency Management and Disaster Perceptions: Revisiting Attitudes and Behaviors in an Era of New Hazard Agents and Profiles (Deadline: 16 April 2024)
- Landslides in Urban Environments: Monitoring, Impact Mitigation and Resilient Enhancement (Deadline: 20 April 2024)
- Landslide Hazards and Soil Erosion (Deadline: 20 April 2024)
- School Safety and Emergency Preparedness: From the Perspective of Sustainable Development (Deadline: 29 April 2024)
- Sea-Level Rising—Coastal Vulnerability and Adaptation Management (Deadline: 30 April 2024)
- Sustainability of Post-disaster Recovery (Deadline: 1 May 2024)
- Strategies for Disasters: From Engineering Works to Mitigation and Adaptation Plans (Deadline: 9 May 2024)
- Sustainability in the Mechanism and Prevention of Coal–Rock Dynamic Disaster and Rock Engineering (Deadline: 10 May 2024)
- Smart Flood Resilience Integrating AI and Hydraulic and Horologic Modeling (Deadline: 15 May 2024)
- Hazard Control and Emergency Rescue in Underground Engineering—2nd Edition (Deadline: 18 May 2024)
- Sustainability and Resilience: Challenges and Opportunities in Seismic Risk Prevention, Mitigation and Adaptation—2nd Edition (Deadline: 21 June 2024)
- Innovative Technologies and Strategies in Disaster Management (Deadline: 30 June 2024)
- Flood Risk Assessment Using Deep Learning and State-of-the-Art Machine Learning (Deadline: 30 June 2024)
- Risk Assessment of Landslides Based on Multi-source Data and Machine Learning (Deadline: 30 June 2024)
- Advanced Research on Wildland Fires, Urban Fires and Resilience (Deadline: 31 August 2024)
- Seismic Resilience of Urban Environments (Deadline: 21 September 2024)
- Sustainability in Natural Hazards Mitigation and Landslide Research (Deadline: 30 September 2024)
- Sustainable Resilience Planning for Natural Hazard Events (Deadline: 16 October 2024)
- Urban Resilience and Sustainable Construction under Disaster Risk (Deadline: 21 October 2024)
- Urban and Buildings Regeneration Strategy to Climatic Change Mitigation, Energy, and Social Poverty after a World Health and Economic Global Crisis: 2nd Edition (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- Advancing Sustainability in Humanitarian Action and Post-disaster Settlements (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- Remote Sensing in Geologic Hazards and Risk Assessment (Deadline: 1 December 2024)
- Sustainable Mitigation and Resilience of Coastal Hazard (Deadline: 1 December 2024)
- Coastal Hazards and Safety 2nd Edition (Deadline: 15 December 2024)
- Sustainability Planning and Design Post-disaster (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- Integrated Geographies of Risk, Natural Hazards and Sustainability 2nd Edition (Deadline: 31 March 2025)
Topical Collections
Following topical collections within this section are currently open for submissions: