Preventing Geohazard Effects on Constructions, a Focus on the Up-to-Date Mitigation Measures

Dear Colleagues,

Facing geohazards is a daily challenge, and increasing the understanding of the involved mechanisms is the first step towards disaster prevention. These events have consequences on the safety of people and constructions, with an impact on the economic and social systems. The development of mitigation solutions that would prevent geohazard-related effects is deemed necessary to enhance the resilience of a country. Over the years, various mitigation techniques have been developed by exploiting different principles, resulting in higher or lower efficacy. Some of them are accepted overall, and consolidated in terms of field implementation, while others fail to be used on a regular basis due to the variability of soil conditions. In this scenario, there is an increasing need to overcome traditional methods and satisfy more recent requirements of field implementation and cost-efficacy, accounting for the issue of sustainability. The availability of new technologies supports this achievement, although the acceptance of new systems may require time and effort. The collection of field data, experimental tests, and numerical simulations contribute to building a consistent state of knowledge to pave the way for the development of new research and detail the applications in specific contexts with due attention given to the encountered limitations.

This Special Issue focuses on mitigation solutions for geohazards within the context of earthquakes, river floods and land subsidence, debris movements and sinkholes, soil erosion, coastal erosion, and rise in sea levels. More emphasis is given to civil infrastructures such as bridges, lifelines, embankments, dikes, foundations, and tunnels. Real-field monitoring, laboratory tests, and numerical simulations can be used as supporting tools for the description of the reference context and the performance of the adopted mitigation systems. Risk assessment, evaluation of the damage scenarios, multi-hazard analyses, risk and vulnerability reduction, resilience, disaster response and reconstruction, and exposure are all welcome topics.

Dr. Massimina Castiglia
Dr. Filippo Santucci de Magistris
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. GeoHazards is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1000 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• geohazards
• disaster
• mitigation
• sustainability
• prevention
• resilience
• new technologies