Abstract
This special issue includes papers covering various topics of importance in the Caribbean such as geodynamics, environmental evolutions and natural hazards (fig. 1). This collection of articles focuses in particular on geodynamic processes occurring along the Caribbean plate boundaries, on volcanic hazards and on flooding. Given the recently increased societal importance of these subjects, we hope that the regional geological community and the local policy makers and government officials of the Caribbean countries will find this a timely and valuable update regarding research advances on these topics. We decided to publish this issue following the Caribbean Geological Conference, which has been held every 3 years since 1955 and took place in Guadeloupe for its 19th meeting from the 21st to the 24th of March 2011. A first section focuses on the past evolution of the …
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