Natural Hazards
A section of Geosciences (ISSN 2076-3263).
Section Information
This section of “Geosciences” is dedicated to the publication of pure, experimental, or applied research that aims to advance methodologies, technologies, expertise, and capabilities to detect, characterize, monitor, and model natural hazards and assess their associated risks.
We are aware that geoscientific research has reached a high degree of specialization, and we want to analyze the state-of-the-art and most recent achievements. Nevertheless, from a holistic perspective, we acknowledge that this is a multi-disciplinary research realm.
Therefore, this section is open to geoscientific studies of natural hazards via ground investigations, in situ instrumentations and remote sensing, and methodological papers for modelling and forecasting, as well as cross-cutting articles dealing with the different aspects of hazard assessment and management. These encompass hazard mitigation, emergency management, post-disaster recovery, the scientific communication of hazards, and capacity building.
The focus is on hazards that are predominantly associated with natural processes and phenomena, including environmental, geological or geophysical, hydro-meteorological, atmospheric, climatological, oceanographic, and biological hazards. However, we are also interested in research investigating the role played by human action in (co-)triggering natural hazards and/or exacerbating their impact on the environment.
Furthermore, we welcome submissions on natural hazards that display slow kinematics and increasingly manifest in time (for example land subsidence), or require long-term observations and measurements to be detected and characterized, as well as on hazards with an abrupt onset or that quickly spread and affect large areas.
Editorial Board
Topical Advisory Panel
Special Issues
Following special issues within this section are currently open for submissions:
- Landslides Runout: Recent Perspectives and Advances (Deadline: 31 May 2026)
- Innovative Solutions in Disaster Research (Deadline: 30 June 2026)
- Landslide Susceptibility Mapping, Hazard Assessment and Risk Evaluation (Deadline: 30 June 2026)
- New Advances in Landslide Mechanisms and Prediction Models (Deadline: 30 June 2026)
- Advances in Volcano-Tectonics: From Field Observations to Modeling (Deadline: 31 July 2026)
- Intelligent Landslide Early Warning: From Multi-Source Sensing to AI-Driven Forecasting (Deadline: 31 August 2026)
- Advances in GeoAI for Earth Observation and Geospatial Data in Geoscience Applications (Deadline: 31 August 2026)
- Landslides: The Contribution of Multi-Source Multi-Temporal Data for Monitoring, Analysis and Risk Mitigation (Deadline: 30 September 2026)
- Advancing Earthquake Forecasting: Integrating Physics-Based and Statistical Approaches (Deadline: 30 September 2026)
- Rockfall Phenomena: Geomorphological Processes, Hazards, and Mitigation (Deadline: 30 September 2026)
- Earthquake Precursors: Techniques, Models and Artificial Intelligence (Deadline: 31 October 2026)
- Survey and Study of Rocky Coasts: From Risk Assessment to Land Planning Strategies (Deadline: 31 October 2026)
- Integrating Geomorphological and Hydrological Insights for Flood Risk Assessment (Deadline: 31 December 2026)
- GIS, InSAR, and Deep Learning in Earth Hazard Monitoring (Deadline: 31 December 2026)
- Applied Geophysics for Geohazards Investigations (Deadline: 31 December 2026)
- Seismic Multi‑Hazard Mitigation from Source to Satellite: Applications and Technological Development (Deadline: 31 December 2026)
- Landslide Dynamics in the AI Era: From Hazard Assessment to Risk Mitigation (Deadline: 31 December 2026)
- Advanced Studies in Rainfall-Induced Soil Degradation, Failure and Landslide Hazards (Deadline: 31 December 2026)
- Rockfall Hazards and Rock Mechanics: Advances in Forecasting, Modelling, Monitoring, and Mitigation (Deadline: 25 January 2027)
- Formation Mechanisms of Landslides Under Multi-Physics and Multi-Scale Interactions (Deadline: 28 June 2027)
Topical Collection
Following topical collection within this section is currently open for submissions:
