Impact of Air and Aquatic Pollution and Natural Disasters on Public Health

Dear Colleagues,

Natural and technological disasters have the potential to pose significant threats to human health and safety and to affect the prosperity of communities. Today, the phenomenon of climate change and its expected impacts are understood better than ever before. Based on this understanding, policy- and decision-makers are expecting a rise in the number of disasters that occur on a global scale. During a disaster, the information based on which decisions are made is typically limited. Thus, decision-makers need experts, scientific methods, and tools to help them assess the potential impacts of a disaster on the environment and public health, and based on these analyses, sustainable solutions can be enforced. Technology can be used to assess air pollution, its control of and impact on climate change, and its impact on public and individual health.

This Special Issue welcomes papers that introduce concepts, methods, and tools as well as case studies regarding the prediction, assessment, monitoring, mapping, risk management, and mitigation of natural and technological hazards and their effects on the environment, the public, and communities in general.

The main topics of interest include (but are not limited to) quantitative–qualitative hazard analysis, risk assessment, and resilience, multi-hazard risk and vulnerability assessment, environmental, socio-economic, and health aspects of all-natural and technological hazards, visualization technologies and GIS, spatial–temporal effects of hazard and risk assessment at local to regional scales, and public awareness as a multidisciplinary approach used by scientific experts. National and international organizations must address the emergence of the threat of pollution and propose sustainable solutions.

Prof. Dr. Eugenia Bezirtzoglou
Dr. Ioannis M. Dokas
Guest Editors

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