New Directions in Hazard and Disaster Science: Advances in Applied Sciences

Dear Colleagues,

Hazards, risk and disasters—including geologic and hydrological processes, intentional threats, and health-related crises—are a growing menace to sustainability, economic development, and global security. For example, there are a wide variety of natural hazards (volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, landslides, mudflows, sinkholes, snow avalanches, flooding, and tsunamis) that pose a critical threat to pivotal infrastructure systems and life safety. Every year, terrorist attacks, severe natural events, and epidemics damage cause injuries and deaths on a large scale. Advances in hazard and disaster science and management are needed to cope with potentially hazardous human threats as well as geoprocesses.

This Special Issue examines a new set of applied science tools in the Big Data era that that can help to reduce the impact of these natural, technologic, intentional, and health-related threats. There are advances in applied sciences that can directly reduce the likelihood, impact, and vulnerability of communities to disaster: remote sensing; electrical, electronics, and communications engineering; nanotechnology and applied nanosciences; mechanical and civil engineering; applied biosciences and bioengineering; environmental and sustainable science and technology; applied physics; computing and artificial intelligence; earth sciences and geography; and applied industrial technologies. For example, new approaches in data science and machine learning capitalize on the ubiquity of risk and hazard data sets, as well as advances in remote sensing, global position systems, and GIS. These solutions also provide new opportunities for the analysis and management of all types of disaster risks.

Prof. Dr. Jason K. Levy
Guest Editor

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