Naslov
Special Issue on Natural Hazards Risk Assessment for Disaster Mitigation

Autori
Nikolić, Željana ; Benvenuti, Elena ; Chiozzi ; Andrea

Izvornik
Applied sciences (Basel) (2076-3417) (2076-3417) 13 (2023), 3; 1940, 4

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, uvodnik, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
Natural hazards ; Risk assessment ; real-time hazard monitoring ; warning systems ; disaster mitigation strategies ; risk management

Sažetak
Knowledge and awareness of the risks generated by natural hazards are essential requirements for the enhancement of communities’ resilience to disasters. The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 has recently pointed out the necessity of undertaking actions aimed to anticipate, manage, and mitigate disaster risks, to reduce their economic and social impact and protect health, socioeconomic assets, cultural heritage, and ecosystems of communities and countries. While the increasing occurrence of disasters caused by meteorological events, such as floods, storms, and droughts, can be directly ascribed to the consequence of climate change, disasters induced by earthquakes and tsunamis are increasing even if the frequency of occurrence is historically unchanged. Therefore, other anthropogenic causes intervene to determine an increment of a risk exposure and community vulnerability, such as land misuse in densely populated areas and coastal zones. This Special Issue addresses concepts, methods, and predictive methodologies for assessing natural hazards risks. This Special Issue presents fifteen articles focusing on the single-risk assessment of a broad range of natural hazards, such as earthquakes, river, and see floods, meteotsunamis, tornados, hydrological and meteorological drought, liquefaction, as well as on multirisk assessment in the presence of multiple hazards. The adopted methodologies rely on: (a) quantitative, semi- quantitative, and qualitative methods for the assessment of the risks related to natural hazards ; (b) risk analysis at different scales ; (c) multi-hazard risk assessment techniques ; (d) real-time hazard monitoring and warning systems ; (e) disaster mitigation strategies ; and (f) risk management and emergency planning at multiple scales.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Građevinarstvo, Temeljne tehničke znanosti

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