Resilience to Natural and Man-Made Disasters

Dear Colleagues,

“Resilience” is a term largely used in the context of political debates, policies, and programming around climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction, and it should be central to scientific investigation if an effective and fair progress of human society is to be achieved. Building resilience to risks and disasters is internationally acknowledged and proclaimed by many EU and international bodies engaged in sustainable development. The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 particularly stresses the urgency of addressing disaster resilience for a more effective protection of people, their livelihoods, health, cultural heritage, socioeconomic assets, and ecosystems. Hence, identification, assessment, monitoring, planning, preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation are necessary to achieve the goals of resilience. Disaster risk reduction measures need to be integrated in development programs related to sustainable development, natural resource management, the environment, poverty reduction, urban development, and adaptation to climate change. These are some of the topics that will be addressed in the articles included in this Special Issue.

This Special Issue will comprise selected papers from the 11^th International Conference on “Environmental Legislation, Safety Engineering and Disaster Management” (ELSEDIMA; http://elsedima.conference.ubbcluj.ro/) and other papers focused on and related to “Resilience to Natural and Man-Made Disasters”.

Authors who presented their papers at the conference are invited to submit their manuscripts to the Guest Editors for preliminary evaluation. Accepted papers will be then submitted by the authors to Sustainability and enter the peer-review process.

Researchers who did not attended the 11^th ELSEDIMA Conference are also invited to develop and submit empirical papers, theoretical manuscripts, and literature reviews on the topic of “Resilience to Natural and Man-Made Disasters”.

All papers selected for this Special Issue will undertake a rigorous peer-review process.

Prof. Dr. Alexandru Ozunu
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Dacinia Crina Petrescu
Guest Editors

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