Disaster Prevention and Resilience
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Disaster Medicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2023) | Viewed by 16343
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) focuses on Disaster Prevention and Resilience. A range of disaster events have occurred frequently in recent years, and disaster impacts tend to be growing in line with social development, urban growth, population concentration, and wealth accumulation. Disasters triggered by natural hazards and human-instigated disasters continue to pose a major problem for societies around the world. Given the growing interest disaster prevention and resilience, we invite authors to submit original research works, methods papers, case investigations, and review papers that develop knowledge and capacity in strategic and practical aspects of reducing the impact of human-instigated disasters and disasters triggered by natural hazards.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Disasters triggered by natural hazards;
- Human-instigated disasters;
- Disaster risk analysis;
- Disaster-risk-informed decision making;
- Disaster risk reduction and management;
- Disaster resilience of built environments;
- Disaster monitoring and early warning;
- Social analysis and urban planning;
- Intelligent applications and education for disaster prevention and resilience.
Prof. Dr. Lili Yang
Dr. Thomas Jack Huggins
Dr. Zhejun Huang
Guest Editors
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