Sustainable Disaster Risk Management and Urban Resilience
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Hazards and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 March 2025 | Viewed by 46
Special Issue Editor
Interests: natural and technological risk perception; hazard awareness; natural and technological hazard management systems; emergency response systems; earthquake early warning; human behavior during a seismic emergency
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As global urbanization continues to grow, cities become more vulnerable and less resilient to disasters triggered by natural and technological hazards. Frequently, disasters trigger cascading effects causing devastating consequences in terms of loss of life or injury, property loss or damage, and disruption of operation. Driven by the impact of disasters and the need to address environmental concerns, a multidisciplinary approach to disaster risk management and urban resilience is needed. The aim of this Special Issue is to create a forum for discussing these issues from a multidisciplinary point of view. It is hoped that this interchange of experiences, approaches, and new ideas will help to advance to the challenge of reducing disaster risks.
This Special Issue aims to cover, without being limited to, the following areas:
- Decision-making process in disaster and risk management;
- Hazard awareness and risk perception;
- Risk assessment, resilience, and vulnerability assessment;
- Emergency response systems;
- Early warning systems;
- Preparedness before and during the emergency;
- Building local community and urban resilience;
- Disasters and individuals with special healthcare needs;
- Evacuation drills (or exercises);
- Risk communication;
- NaTech events and disasters;
- Social media and disasters;
- Disaster risk and traditional knowledge solutions.
Dr. Jaime Santos-Reyes
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- risk
- disaster
- resilience
- vulnerability
- early warning
- emergency response
