Introduction: Special Issue 'Small Islands and Natural Hazards'

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-15
Author(s):  
Rebecca Hofmann ◽  
Uwe Lübken
Keyword(s):  
Natural Hazards ◽  
Small Islands ◽  
Special Issue

Special Issue on Multi-disciplinary Hazard Reduction from Earthquakes and Volcanoes in Indonesia

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenji Satake ◽  
Yujiro Ogawa
Keyword(s):  
Natural Hazards ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Volcanic Eruptions ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Disaster Mitigation ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Tsunami Simulation ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Disaster Education

Natural disasters and their mitigation are global issues, especially in Asian countries, which have suffered from such geohazards as earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions and such hydrometeorological hazards as typhoons, cyclones, storm surges, and floods. Research on natural hazards and disasters is multidisciplinary. Scientists from a wide variety of disciplines study hazards, their causes, their mechanisms, and prediction. Engineers study infrastructures and measures to reduce vulnerability. Social and humanitarian scientists study cultural and societal aspects of disasters. Educators study effective ways to raise people’s awareness and action. In addition to such research activities, practitioners work to implement the results of scientific research into practical policymaking. This special issue of JDR contains 12 papers on multidisciplinary studies concerning geohazards in Indonesia taken from a Science and Technology Research Partnership for Sustainable Development (SATREPS) project supported by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). SATREPS projects focus on both the scientific aspect, namely, acquiring new knowledge, and the Official Development Aids (ODA) aspect, namely, implementing such knowledge in societal applications. Following the first review article, which is a project overview, the next four papers report findings on natural hazards – the slip rate on the Lembang fault in Java, tsunami simulation for Java’s Palabuhanratu, the Sinabung volcano eruption in Sumatra, and methods of predicting and evaluating eruptions. One paper reports engineering studies on tsunami disaster mitigation in Padang city and two social science papers present hazards in the contexts of communities and human mobility. Two papers on disaster education cover disaster education development since the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and the use of tsunami simulation in disaster education. The last research paper and review article deal with policymaking related to the 2010 Mentawai and 2011 Japan tsunamis, respectively. All of these papers, including the review articles, have been peer-reviewed by two nonproject reviewers. We thank the authors for their timely contributions and revisions, and the reviewers for their invaluable and wide-ranging comments.

Preface to Natural Hazards Special Issue Georisks: Interactions Between Science and Society

2007 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 455-457
Author(s):  
Alik Ismail-Zadeh ◽  
Tom Beer
Keyword(s):  
Natural Hazards ◽  
Science And Society ◽  
Special Issue

Special Issue on Adaptation Measures for Disasters due to Climate Change

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 403-402
Author(s):  
Toshimitsu Komatsu
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Natural Hazards ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Natural Hazard ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Disaster Prevention ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Adaptation Measures ◽  
Mountainous Regions

An increase in natural hazards due to global warming has broadened the gap between natural hazards and disaster prevention. This gap has raised the possibility that unexpected major disasters occur. As chances of a natural hazard grow, appropriate and efficient adaptation is considered as a last resort for lessening disaster. In water-related disasters such as floods and debris flows, individual disaster sites have specific thresholds (limits). When a natural hazard exceeds this threshold, a serious disaster strikes us. On the contrary when it is under the limit, disaster damage is kept to be small. Flood disasters and landslides have the side of gall or nothing.h This is a characteristic of water-related disasters. Climate change is causing natural hazards to exceed this threshold easily. This makes resilient proactive adaptation very important in disaster prevention. Specific adaptation measures developed hereafter must cope with serious water and sediment disasters throughout mountainous regions, rivers, urban areas, and coastal areas that are assumed to be influenced by global warming. The Journal of Disaster Research has planned a special issue on the adaptation measures for disasters due to climate change. Having taken part in field surveys, computer simulations, and laboratory experiments and finding adaptation measures worth studying more deeply, I decided to contribute to this special issue as a Guest Editor. All of its 11 papers have been peer-reviewed. The broad topics covered range from floods, landslides, and storm surges to adaptation to the human being society. I would like to extend my sincere thanks to the contributors and reviewers involved in producing these articles, especially to Dr. Hideo Oshikawa, Assistant Professor of the Department of Urban and Environment Engineering, Kyushu University, Japan, for his great support. I look forward with great anticipation to feedback from readers regarding these articles.

scholarly journals Editorial of Special Issue “Detecting Geospace Perturbations Caused by Earth”

Geosciences ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 496
Author(s):  
Georgios Balasis ◽  
Angelo De Santis
Keyword(s):  
Natural Hazards ◽  
Saharan Dust ◽  
Earth System ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Geomagnetic Disturbances ◽  
Complex Dynamic ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Dust Events ◽  
Dynamic Phenomena

A systematic multiparametric and multiplatform approach to detect and study geo-space perturbations attributed to preparation processes related to natural hazards is fundamental in order to obtain useful insights on a series of complex dynamic phenomena of the Earth system, namely, earthquakes, volcanic and Saharan dust events, as well as geomagnetic disturbances [...]

scholarly journals Key Topics and Future Perspectives in Natural Hazards Research

Geosciences ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deodato Tapete
Keyword(s):  
Natural Hazards ◽  
Future Perspectives ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Level Ii ◽  
Scientific Analysis ◽  
Current Context ◽  
Key Topics ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Natural Disaster Management

Since early 2018 the “Natural Hazards” Section of Geosciences journal has aimed to publish pure, experimental, or applied research that is focused on advancing methodologies, technologies, expertise, and capabilities to detect, characterize, monitor, and model natural hazards and assess their associated risks. This stream of geoscientific research has reached a high degree of specialization and represents a multi-disciplinary research realm. To inaugurate this section, the Special Issue “Key Topics and Future Perspectives in Natural Hazards Research” was launched. After a year and half since the call for papers was initially opened, the special issue is now completed with the editorial introducing the collection of 10 selected papers covering the following hot topics of natural hazards research: (i) trends in publications and research directions at international level; (ii) the role of Big Data in natural disaster management; (iii) assessment of seismic risk through the understanding and quantification of its three components (i.e., hazard, vulnerability and exposure/impact); (iv) climatic/hydro-meteorological hazards (i.e., drought, hurricanes); and (v) scientific analysis of past incidents and disaster forensics (i.e., the Oroville Dam 2017 spillway incident). The present editorial provides a summary of each paper of the collection within the current context of scientific research on natural hazards, pointing out the salient results and key messages.

scholarly journals Special issue: Natural hazards, modelling, risk assessment and the role of scale

2018 ◽  
Vol 93 (S1) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Paula Teves-Costa ◽  
José Manuel Mendes
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Natural Hazards ◽  
Special Issue

scholarly journals Editorial for the special issue: vulnerability to natural hazards—the challenge of integration

2011 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 609-619 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sven Fuchs ◽  
Christian Kuhlicke ◽  
Volker Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Natural Hazards ◽  
Special Issue
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