Hazards and Sustainability
A section of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Section Information
The purpose of the section is to study and manage hazards and reduce the damage they create. Hazards can be natural, anthropogenic, or a combination of the two. Natural hazards can be classified into several broad categories: geological, hydrological, and meteorological hazards. Anthropogenic hazards mainly include fires and acid rain.
Disasters are taking a heavy toll and affecting individuals, communities, and countries worldwide. In response to hazards, we must carry out disaster risk management to reduce disaster risks and enhance resilience.
Keywords
- Natural hazards and sustainability:
- Geological hazards: earthquakes, landslides, debris flow, flash floods, volcanoes, collapses, rock falls, etc.
- Hydrological hazards: floods, droughts, marine disasters, tsunamis, storm surges, etc.
- Meteorological hazards: severe weather, storms, hurricanes, typhoons, tornadoes, sandstorms, climate change, global warming, greenhouse gas emissions, lightning, heavy fog, haze, hailstones, etc.
- Anthropogenic hazards and sustainability: fires, acid rain, etc.
- Disaster risk management and sustainability: resilience, reconstruction, emergency management, safety engineering, natural hazard assessment, disaster mitigation, sustainable risk management, disaster risk reduction, post-disaster recovery/restoration, disaster resilient communities, etc.
Editorial Board
Topical Advisory Panel
Special Issues
Following special issues within this section are currently open for submissions:
- Urban and Buildings Regeneration Strategy to Climatic Change Mitigation, Energy, and Social Poverty after a World Health and Economic Global Crisis: 2nd Edition (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- Remote Sensing in Geologic Hazards and Risk Assessment (Deadline: 1 December 2024)
- Sustainable Mitigation and Resilience of Coastal Hazard (Deadline: 1 December 2024)
- Coastal Hazards and Safety 2nd Edition (Deadline: 15 December 2024)
- Sustainability and Resilience: Challenges and Opportunities in Seismic Risk Prevention, Mitigation and Adaptation—2nd Edition (Deadline: 21 December 2024)
- Mitigating the Impacts of Climate Disasters on Environmental Sustainability (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- Sustainability Planning and Design Post-disaster (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- Landslides in Urban Environments: Monitoring, Impact Mitigation and Resilient Enhancement (Deadline: 5 January 2025)
- Engineering Safety Prevention and Sustainable Risk Management (Deadline: 16 February 2025)
- Landslide Hazards and Soil Erosion (Deadline: 20 February 2025)
- Sustainable Disaster Risk Management: Transformative and Resilient Practices—2nd Edition (Deadline: 28 February 2025)
- Wildfire Hazards and Sustainable Risk Prevention and Control (Deadline: 28 February 2025)
- Building Resilience: Sustainable Approaches in Disaster Management (Deadline: 28 February 2025)
- Sustainable Disaster Risk Management and Urban Resilience (Deadline: 10 March 2025)
- Sustainable Assessment of Civil Infrastructure Systems and Risk Analysis (Deadline: 15 March 2025)
- Integrated Geographies of Risk, Natural Hazards and Sustainability—2nd Edition (Deadline: 31 March 2025)
- Life Cycle Assessment in the Context of Climate Change: A Sustainable Development Perspective (Deadline: 31 March 2025)
- Urban Resilience and Sustainable Construction under Disaster Risk (Deadline: 30 April 2025)
- Sustainable Resilience Planning for Natural Hazard Events (Deadline: 30 April 2025)
- Sustainability in Natural Hazards Mitigation and Landslide Research (Deadline: 30 April 2025)
- Emergency Management and Disaster Perceptions: Revisiting Attitudes and Behaviors in an Era of New Hazard Agents and Profiles (Deadline: 30 April 2025)
- The Latest Studies on Natural Hazards and Sustainable Civil Engineering (Deadline: 31 May 2025)
- Bio- and Technological Solutions for a Cleaner Air and a Stable Climate: Future Trends in Air Pollution Monitoring (Deadline: 31 May 2025)
- Advancing Sustainability in Humanitarian Action and Post-disaster Settlements (Deadline: 30 June 2025)
- Disaster Prevention, Resilience and Sustainable Management (Deadline: 30 June 2025)
- Flood Risk Assessment Using Deep Learning and State-of-the-Art Machine Learning (Deadline: 30 June 2025)
- Strategies in Light of the New European Bauhaus for Resilience and Decreasing the Impact of Natural Hazards on Urban Areas (Deadline: 28 July 2025)
- Innovative Techniques and Technologies in Crisis Management and Civil Protection (Deadline: 31 July 2025)
- Climate Change, Air Pollution and Environmental Health (Deadline: 20 August 2025)
- Climate Change Adaptation, Disaster Risk Reduction, and Sustainable Development (Deadline: 31 August 2025)
- Innovative Technologies and Strategies in Disaster Management, 2nd Edition (Deadline: 30 November 2025)
- Mountain Hazards and Environmental Sustainability (Deadline: 31 December 2025)
Topical Collection
Following topical collection within this section is currently open for submissions:
