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A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Hazards and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2021.
Special Issue Editor
Interests: natural hazard risk perception; critical infrastructure interdependency; early warning systems; disaster management systems; human response to emergencies; analysis of past natural/technological disasters
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Environmental hazards such as earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions represent a significant risk to communities living under such threats. Having a better understanding, among others, of the physics of these events, monitoring, risk assessment and prediction, preparedness (public awareness), and disaster management systems, may help to mitigate the impact of disasters. The aim of this Special issue is to create a forum for discussion on these issues from a multidisciplinary point of view. It is hoped that this interchange of experiences, approaches, and new ideas will help to advance to the challenge of reducing disaster risk. Effectively, achieving this will make vulnerable communities’ development sustainable.
The Special issue aims to cover, without being limited to, the following areas:
- Earthquake prediction
- Performance assessment of buildings
- Vulnerability assessment
- Emergency response systems
- Early warning systems
- Human response to emergencies
- Risk assessment
- Risk perception
- Lessons learned from past disasters
- Evacuation drills (or exercises)
- Critical infrastructure failure due to disasters
- Cascading failure due to disasters
- Community resilience
- Social media and disasters
- Disaster management systems
References
- Peduzzi, The Disaster Risk, Global Change, and Sustainability Nexus. Sustainability 2019, 11, 957. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/su11040957
- Ludovico, D.; D’Ovidio, G.; Santilli, D. Post-earthquake reconstruction as an opportunity for a sustainable reorganization of transport of urban areas. Cities 2020, 96, 102447. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2019.102447
- Turner II, L.; Kasperson, Roger; Matson, Pamela; Mccarthy, James; Corell, Robert; Christensen, Lindsey; Selin, Noelle; Kasperson, Jeanne; Luers, Amy; Martello, Marybeth; et al. A framework for vulnerability analysis in sustainability science. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 2003, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1231335100
- Cao, ; Li, C.; Yang, Q.; Liu, Y.; Qu, T. A novel multi-objective programming model of relief distribution for sustainable disaster supply chain in large-scale natural disasters. J. Clean. Prod. 2018, 174, 1422-1435.
- United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. Sendai framework for disaster risk reduction 2015-2030. Available online: https://www.preventionweb.net/sendai-framework/sendai-framework-for-drr (accessed on 13 August 2020)
Dr. Jaime Santos-Reyes
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- Risk
- Disaster
- Resilience
- Vulnerability
- Early warning
- Emergency response
- Sustainability