Editorial Board for section 'Natural Hazards'

Please see the section webpage for more information on this section.

Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.

Members


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Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Edile e Ambientale (DICEA), Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Via Claudio 21, 80125 Napoli, Italy
Interests: earth dams; river embankments; rainfall-induced landslides; retaining walls; early warning systems for earth dams and landslides
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1. Department of Applied Mathematics, Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University n.a. R.E. Alekseev, 603950 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
2. Department of Nonlinear Geophysical Phenomena, Institute of Applied Physics, 603950 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
3. Department of Fundamental Mathematics, National Research University Higher School of Economics, 603155 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Interests: nonlinear waves; waves in random media; nonlinear evolution equations; asymptotic methods; ocean and atmospheric waves; marine natural hazards (tsunamis, floods, and freak waves)

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School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TL, UK
Interests: volcanic hazards; volcanology; volcanic risk; hydrometeorological hazards; physical vulnerability; disaster risk reduction; participatory action research; geological fluid dynamics

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National Research Council (CNR), Institute of Food Sciences (ISA) Via Roma, 64-83100 Avellino, Italy
Interests: natural hazards; active tectonics; historical and recent seismicity; seismic risk; seismic hazard; environment; paleoseismology; floods; historical floods; disasters induced by earthquakes; cultural heritage; resilience
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Seismological Section, Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale, Sgonico, Italy
Interests: seismology; induced seismicity; underground gas storage; seismic monitoring; numerical modelling of seismic wave propagation; numerical simulation of earthquakes; engineering seismology; seismic site-response estimation

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Department of Earth Sciences, University of Firenze, Via La Pira, 4, I-50121 Firenze, Italy
Interests: prediction and mapping of landslide hazards; physically based models for the triggering of shallow landslides; landslide susceptibility maps; rainfall thresholds for landslide triggering; regional-scale landslide early warning systems; civil protection; land planning; landslide risk assessment
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Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400076, India
Interests: volcanology; igneous petrology and geochemistry; flood basalts; volcanic rifted margins; geodynamics and crustal evolution

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School of Environment, University of Auckland, Auckland 1010, New Zealand
Interests: igneous petrology; geochemistry of volcanic rocks; subduction processes; small scale basaltic volcanism

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International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University, Miyagi Prefecture 980-0845, Japan
Interests: tsunami numerical modeling; tsunami generation mechanism; tsunami damage field survey; tsunami vulnerability; tsunami hazard and risk evaluation; disaster prevention education
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Graduate School of Science and Engineering and the International Institute for Resilient Society, Saitama University, 255 Shimo-okubo, Sakura-ku, Saitama 338-8570, Japan
Interests: tsunami mitigation; coastal green belt; hybrid defence system; Eco-DRR; levee erosion and breach; disaster risk reduction; evacuation from tsunami/floods
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Institut de Ciències del Mar (CSIC), Passeig Marítim de la Barceloneta, 37-49, 08003 Barcelona, Spain
Interests: offshore geohazards; continental margin hydrogeology; glacial geomorphology and glacial sedimentology; evolution and architecture of continental margins; processes of volcano flank collapse; the Messinian salinity crisis; seafloor and subseafloor imaging techniques (acoustic and seismic methods); offshore in-situ measuring techniques

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Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Rua Conselheiro Emidio Navarro, 1, 1959-007 Lisboa, Portugal
Interests: tsunamis; natural hazards
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Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, Universidade de Lisboa, 1649-004 Lisboa, Portugal
Interests: hazard assessment; risk analysis; landslides; applied geomorphology; spatial planning
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