Disaster Risk Reduction and Sustainability
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Hazards and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 May 2026 | Viewed by 29
Special Issue Editors
Interests: resilience to catastrophes; resilient food; global catastrophic infrastructure loss resilience
Interests: solar photovoltaics; appropriate technology; distributed recycling and additive manufacturing; open hardware, resilient food
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Disasters, ranging from local disruptions caused by earthquakes to global disruptions caused by pandemics and other global catastrophes, threaten the continued operation of global systems. Such disasters directly affect many of the Sustainable Development Goals, including in the areas of poverty, hunger, health, education, gender equality, clean water and sanitation, energy, economic growth, inequalities, and peace. Accordingly, long-term sustainability, and progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals requires the ability to prevent and adapt to such disasters.
This Special Issue aims to create a bridge between researchers in the communities of disaster risk reduction and sustainability, supporting a transdisciplinary dialogue to improve the security, resilience, and long-term sustainability of global systems.
Both original research papers and reviews are welcome in this Special Issue, and research themes may include, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- Disaster prevention, including climate change mitigation, resilient food sources, climate resilient agriculture systems, and climate resilient water systems;
- Disaster response and recovery, including post-disaster coordination and short- and long-term emergency planning;
- Disaster adaptation, including urban resilience, sustainable infrastructure, climate change adaptation, and policies for resilience to global catastrophic risks;
- Energy security, including resilience to fuel shocks and supply chain disruptions.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. David Denkenberger
Prof. Dr. Joshua M. Pearce
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- disaster prevention
- disaster resilience
- sustainability
- energy security
- global catastrophic risk
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