Current Advances on the Assessment and Mitigation of Fire Risk in Buildings and Urban Areas — 1st Edition

Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to announce the feature Special Issue 'Current Advances on the Assessment and Mitigation of Fire Risk in Buildings and Urban Areas — 1st Edition'. This Special Issue, which intends to mark the beginning of a series of feature Special Issues on this topic, will be composed of a collection of articles from top researchers describing new approaches or cutting-edge developments in this field of research. Possible topics include, but are certainly not limited to: the application of empirical methods, statistical and probabilistic models, regression methods, probability distributions, fault and event trees, stochastic models, and machine learning techniques in high-quality research outputs. The ultimate goal of this Special Issue is to make a concrete contribution toward strengthening the development and implementation of fire risk prevention, preparedness, and response actions. Submissions from Editorial Board Members and outstanding scholars invited by the Editorial Board and the Editorial Office are particularly welcome, but this Special Issue is open to any researcher working on the topic. Feel free to reach out to the journal's Editorial Office at fire@mdpi.com with proposals for evaluation.

In order to boost the outreach of this initiative, the papers published herein will be included in a Special Issue Reprint book to be published soon after the Special Issue is closed.

Prof. Dr. Tiago Miguel Ferreira
Guest Editor

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 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

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. Fire is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly 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 2400 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.