Natural Hazards and Disaster Risks Reduction, 2nd Volume

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Dear Colleagues,

Given the success of the first edition of the topic “Natural Hazards and Disaster Risks Reduction”, which also led to the publication of three re-print books (https://www.mdpi.com/topics/Natural_Hazards_Disaster_Risks_Reduction), we are pleased to announce its second edition. The physical forces governing Earth’s systems can give rise to abrupt and severe natural events, which come in the form of violent expressions of ordinary environmental processes. Their impact is unevenly distributed on land because of complex continental, regional, and local natural processes that overlap with anthropogenic forcing. The resultant climate variations can directly or indirectly exacerbate these occurrences at different spatial and temporal scales. When such phenomena interact directly with both inhabited areas and societies, different risk scenarios can develop, characterized by a continuous and persistent dynamic or by rapid mutability. From this perspective, natural hazards create potential disasters that can impact anthropic activities, either through the loss of life or injury or through economic loss. The degree of safety in a community equates to the impact of and exposure to these events, and of the level of preparation for them is based on awareness and perception. The social development and spatial growth of human activities by our use of soil and natural resources has further contributed to creating vulnerability, increasing the challenges to conscious societies trying to cope with severe natural processes and their effects. The protection of territory is a key element in the UN 2030 Agenda’s action strategy for sustainable development, and risk reduction is one of the guiding criteria of the 2015–2030 Sendai Framework’s sustainability policy. This topic will collect original studies of different types of natural hazards (extreme climate and weather-related events and geological occurrences such as floods, landslides, subsidence, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, etc.), vulnerable domains, and exposure to disaster risk. also It will also feature manuscripts whose contents can help to mitigate risks. Among them, technical interventions and operational methodologies for implementing risk-reduction strategies, such as plans, protocols, working procedures, early warning systems, and other innovations in the sector; elements that combine modern concepts with consolidated realities of the past are also to be included. Papers on state-of-the-art techniques are welcome, especially those in the following three operating areas: spaceborne, aerial, and terrestrial activities. Numerical and experimental investigations for basic or applied research and representative case studies are also welcome, as are interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches, which we think add additional value in progressing the field of responsible and sustainable risk mitigation.

Dr. Stefano Morelli
Dr. Veronica Pazzi
Dr. Mirko Francioni
Topic Editors

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Participating Journals

Journal Name	Impact Factor	CiteScore	Launched Year	First Decision (median)	APC
GeoHazards geohazards	-	2.6	2020	20.7 Days	CHF 1000	Submit
Land land	3.2	4.9	2012	14.8 Days	CHF 2600	Submit
Remote Sensing remotesensing	4.2	8.3	2009	23 Days	CHF 2700	Submit
Sustainability sustainability	3.3	6.8	2009	18.8 Days	CHF 2400	Submit
Water water	3.0	5.8	2009	16.5 Days	CHF 2600	Submit

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