Multi-Hazard Risk Assessment: Frameworks, Tools, and Case Studies
A special issue of GeoHazards (ISSN 2624-795X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2027 | Viewed by 24
Special Issue Editors
Interests: risk assessment and management of geological hazards and multi-hazard; geological hazard monitoring and early warning technologies
Interests: early warning and risk management of landslide hazards
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Geohazards often impact temporal and spatial scales, generating systemic risks whose losses can far exceed those of individual events. Despite growing recognition of these challenges, conventional single-hazard risk assessment approaches remain inadequate for capturing the complex interactions, feedback mechanisms, and systemic risks inherent in multi-hazard situations. Addressing these gaps requires unraveling cascading mechanisms, and developing integrated assessment frameworks and innovative analytical tools. To formulate strategies that explicitly account for interconnected risks, insights from empirical case studies are needed to support more anticipatory and resilient decision-making in risk mitigation and management.
This Special Issue, entitled “Multi-Hazard Risk Assessment: Frameworks, Tools, and Case Studies”, aims to advance both methodological development and practical applications in multi-hazard risk assessment under accelerating environmental change, extreme climate events, and growing socio-economic complexity. We welcome submissions of original research articles and comprehensive review papers on topics including, but not limited to:
- Cascading processes and mechanisms of hazard interaction;
- Risk identification and susceptibility assessment;
- Hazard assessment in multi-hazard environments;
- Exposure, vulnerability, and resilience;
- Frameworks for multi-hazard risk assessment;
- Analytical tools, models, and digital platforms;
- Impacts of climate change on multi-hazard dynamics;
- Risk governance and stakeholder engagement.
We particularly encourage case studies at local, regional, and global scales, especially those adopting interdisciplinary perspectives and offering practical implications for geohazard risk mitigation, climate adaptation, and sustainable development.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Ye Li
Prof. Dr. Kunlong Yin
Dr. Qin Chen
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- multi-hazard
- cascading geohazard mechanisms
- systemic risk
- hazard assessment
- vulnerability and resilience
- risk assessment
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