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
Special Issues
Following special issues within this section are currently open for submissions:
- Soil Erosion Processes (Deadline: 30 September 2023)
- New Trends in Earthquake Engineering and Seismotectonics (Deadline: 30 September 2023)
- Late Quaternary Faultings and Seismicity of the Intermountain Basins (Deadline: 30 September 2023)
- Impact of Volcanic Gas and Ash Emissions: Perspectives in Hazards Assessment (Deadline: 25 October 2023)
- Natural Hazards and Geological Risks in Subduction Zones (Deadline: 31 October 2023)
- Advances in Landslide Monitoring, Inventory and Susceptibility Mapping (Deadline: 31 October 2023)
- Landslide Monitoring and Mapping II (Deadline: 25 November 2023)
- Assessment of Earthquake-Induced Soil Liquefaction Hazard—Volume II (Deadline: 15 December 2023)
- Soil Erosion and Shallow Landslides: Prediction of the Phenomena and Measures of Sediments Delivery (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Remote Sensing Monitoring of Geomorphological Hazards (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Lithosphere-Atmosphere-Ionosphere Coupling during Earthquake Preparation: Recent Advances and Future Perspectives (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Precursory Phenomena Prior to Earthquakes 2023 (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Management of Natural Disaster in Coastal Zones (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Advances in Seismic Hazard Assessment (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Active Tectonics and Earthquakes (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Flood Risk Reduction (Deadline: 15 March 2024)
Topical Collections
Following topical collections within this section are currently open for submissions: