Abstract
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.
Highlights
In early 2018 the journal Geosciences was re-organized into six sections, including one focused on “Natural Hazards”
The Natural Hazards section is open to geoscientific studies of natural hazards that are carried out using ground investigations, in situ instrumentations and remote sensing
An increased share of research on droughts is, instead, observed in India and Australia; From the global perspective, the research on individual types of natural hazards is in all cases dominated by researchers from the USA, followed by researchers from China, with the exception of research on volcanic activity, where Italy is ranked second; The majority of research items are written by author(s) from one country
Summary
In early 2018 the journal Geosciences was re-organized into six sections, including one focused on “Natural Hazards”. The section is dedicated to the publication of pure, experimental, or applied research that aims to advance 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. The section accepts methodological papers proposing workflows and routines for modelling and forecasting, as well as cross-cutting articles dealing with the different aspects of hazard assessment and management The latter encompass hazard mitigation, emergency management, post-disaster recovery, the scientific communication of hazards, and capacity building. New findings in understanding triggering and propagation mechanisms; revision of previous hypotheses or hazard scenarios; development of new conceptualizations and methodologies; testing of new data, sensors, and techniques for investigation, monitoring, change detection, and multi-temporal or back-analysis; development of new or refined models for forecasting; integration of hazard assessment in risk analysis; design of new materials and solutions for risk mitigation; exploration of new ways to communicate hazards and increase awareness; study of societal impacts of natural hazards
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