Natural Hazards and Environmental Challenges in the Anthropocene Age

Dear Colleagues,

The incidence of hazardous events has been on the increase in recent times. Apart from incidents that are triggered by natural processes, there are also those triggered by human-related activities such as urbanization, industrialization, constructions, negligence, etc. In this Topical Issue (TI), the roles/contributions of humans in the occurrences of hazards and the impacts of hazard occurrences on humanity and the environment are examined. With a scope covering both natural and human-induced hazards, this TI aims to publish a collection of innovative original research papers, case studies, and review papers that addresses a wide range of issues on natural hazards and the challenges they pose to man and the environment. We are targeting multidisciplinary submissions on erosion, landslides, flooding, extreme temperatures, droughts, wildfire, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, coastal hazards, subsidence, sinkholes, windstorms, tornadoes, etc. The incorporation of geospatial, (geo)statistical, numerical or index-based, and soft computational modelling techniques is highly encouraged. The themes that will be considered in this TI include, but are not limited to:

• Modelling, prediction, characterization, and risk assessment of natural hazards.
• Anthropogenic and technological hazards in the present age: insights on the roles of man.
• The impacts of natural hazard occurrences on man and the environment.
• Emerging technologies and sensors for geohazard data processing and interpretation.
• Climate change and occurrence of mass movement and hydrometeorological hazards.
• Engineering failures related to water: their monitoring, assessment, and risk reduction.
• Extreme temperatures and environmental sustainability.
• Multi-hazard analysis and multiscale modelling of natural hazards.
• Seismic-related hazards and human settlement/displacement challenges.
• Age and gender exposure, response, and resilience to natural hazards.
• Social impacts of natural hazards in urban, semi-urban, and rural regions.
• Earth’s resources and hazards: the interactions of the earth systems in hazardous events.
• Land use/land conservation strategies in the face of natural hazards.
• Planning, policy-making, and management strategies for hazard mitigation.
• Deterministic, computational, and stochastic modelling of hazard impacts.

We are delighted to invite you to submit your high-quality manuscript(s) to our Topical Issue (TI), which is being hosted by these participating MDPI journals: Remote Sensing, Water, Geosciences, Geohazards, or Atmosphere.

Dr. Johnbosco C. Egbueri
Dr. Chaitanya B. Pande
Dr. Quoc Bao Pham
Topic Editors