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Single and Multi-Hazard Risk Assessment: Challenges, Tools and Good Practices
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Single and Multi-Hazard Risk Assessment: Challenges, Tools and Good Practices

A special issue of GeoHazards (ISSN 2624-795X).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2022) | Viewed by 13470

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Tiago Miguel Ferreira

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Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of the West of England-UWE Bristol, Frenchay Campus, Bristol BS16 1QY, UK
Interests: multi-hazard risk analysis; risk and vulnerability reduction; seismic vulnerability; seismic rehabilitation and retrofit; urban resilience; disaster response and reconstruction; geographic information systems
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues, 

Over recent years, there has been increasing concern among the international community about the effects of natural and human-made hazards, whose impacts are becoming more frequent, more severe, and widespread. To tackle this global issue, it is fundamental to engage and develop fundamental and applied research that can lead to more efficient risk mitigation practices and policymaking based on a thorough understanding of the elements at risk and the factors that make them more or less vulnerable to disaster impact. In light of this, the present Special Issue aims to stimulate the exchange of knowledge and new perspectives on the assessment and mitigation of multi-hazard risk. Particularly welcome are contributions dealing with the development, validation, and practical implementation of innovative techniques, methods, and tools to assess, manage, and mitigate single and multi-hazard risk at different scales. 

Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following: 

Resilience: Conceptual understanding and multi-disciplinary perspectives; definition of global resilience factors; integrated monitoring/representation systems, surveying, and diagnosis; smart digitized inventories and frameworks. 

Safety: Multi-hazard disaster scenarios and definition of global hazard factors; vulnerability and damage assessment approaches for natural and human-made hazards. 

Adaptive Capacity: Sensitization of local communities; effective advice and adaptation policies of the government and/or societal organizations; emergency response and plans; community engagement and participation.

Risk Assessment: Disaster risk mitigation and communication actions; cost/benefit analysis of emergency versus prevention. 

Dr. Tiago Miguel Ferreira
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • Resilience
  • Natural and human-made hazards
  • Risk assessment and mitigation
  • Adaptive capacity
  • Cascading effects
  • Disaster response

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A Concise Appraisal of Cameroon’s Hazard Risk Profile: Multi-Hazard Inventories, Causes, Consequences and Implications for Disaster Management
by Henry Ngenyam Bang
GeoHazards 2022, 3(1), 55-87; https://doi.org/10.3390/geohazards3010004 - 11 Feb 2022
Cited by 9 | Viewed by 6840
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The paucity of a comprehensive document on Cameroon’s hazard/disaster risk profile is a limitation to the country wide risk assessment and adequate disaster resilience. This article narrows this gap by retrospectively exploring Cameroon’s hazard/disaster profile. This has been achieved through an investigative approach [...] Read more.
The paucity of a comprehensive document on Cameroon’s hazard/disaster risk profile is a limitation to the country wide risk assessment and adequate disaster resilience. This article narrows this gap by retrospectively exploring Cameroon’s hazard/disaster profile. This has been achieved through an investigative approach that applies a set of qualitative methods to derive and articulate an inventory and analysis of hazards/disasters in Cameroon. The findings indicate that Cameroon has a wide array and high incidence/frequency of hazards that have had devastating consequences. The hazards have been structured along four profiles: a classification of all hazard types plaguing Cameroon into natural, potentially socio-natural, technological, and social and anthropogenic hazards; occurrence/origin of the hazards; their impacts/effects to the ‘at risk’ communities/populace and potential disaster management or mitigation measures. In-depth analysis indicate that natural hazards have the lowest frequency but the potential to cause the highest fatalities in a single incident; potentially socio-natural hazards affect the largest number of people and the widest geographical areas, technological hazards have the highest frequency of occurrence; while social/anthropogenic hazards are the newest in the country but have caused the highest population displacement. Arguably, the multi-hazard/disaster inventory presented in this article serves as a vital preliminary step to a more comprehensive profile of Cameroon’s disaster risk profile. Full article
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Towards a Semi-Quantitative Approach for Assessing Evacuation Scenarios in the Context of Popocatépetl Volcano, México—The Case of San Pedro Tlalmimilulpan
by Rafael Ramírez Eudave and Tiago Miguel Ferreira
GeoHazards 2021, 2(1), 1-16; https://doi.org/10.3390/geohazards2010001 - 25 Jan 2021
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Volcanic exposure implies multiple hazards for human settlements. The identification of the potential hazards that volcanic activity can entail is a challenge requiring assessing the specific situations that a determined place would face. Popocatépetl, a volcano in the centre of México, represents a [...] Read more.
Volcanic exposure implies multiple hazards for human settlements. The identification of the potential hazards that volcanic activity can entail is a challenge requiring assessing the specific situations that a determined place would face. Popocatépetl, a volcano in the centre of México, represents a significant hazard source, and it is located within a densely populated region with more than 20 million people. Despite the existence of a colour-based volcano alert level system for the current activity of the volcano, it is relevant to assess which local scenarios are more likely depending on numerous variables, namely, related to the distance from the volcano. A semi-quantitative analysis was carried out based on existing hazard maps and considering the probability of occurrence of volcanic explosivity, taking the settlement of San Pedro Tlalmimilulpan as a case study. This analysis led to a hierarchised rank of hazards, providing a basis for analysing multiple scenarios through failure mode and event analysis, failure tree analysis and event tree analysis. This process facilitates the contextualisation of the multiple challenges and potential chains of events that emergency actions, namely, emergency evacuations, would face. The analysis of the critical paths can help to identify critical aspects that could hinder the post-event response. Full article
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