Advances in Global Disaster Impact Assessment and Risk Management
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 2704
Special Issue Editors
Interests: climate change impact; natural hazards; landslides; statistical modelling; spatial analysis; extreme precipitation
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: climate-change-related extremes (drought, floods, heat waves, and extreme precipitation); agriculture and water resource; socioeconomic impact of climatic change; hydrologic modelling; remote sensing; global climate modelling; machine learning
Interests: COVID-19 pandemic; marine economy; migration; statistical modelling; spatial analysis; risk management
Interests: urban disaster risk assessment; ecological security assessment; low carbon city planning; high temperature disaster
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The Earth's surface systems have undergone profound changes in recent years as a result of further intensification of the impact of human activities on the global environment, etc. The resulting extreme weather events, the COVID-19 pandemic and other large-scale disasters pose a great challenge to human society. As the global environment changes even further in the future, multi-global disasters are likely to occur with increasing frequency, and managing the associated risks and impacts becomes increasingly challenging given the multiple human and natural factors, which will interact with each other.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) documented that anthropogenic climate change is strengthening weather- and climate-related extreme events globally, which generate cascading risks in physical systems, ecosystems, economy and society as well as posing serious challenges to the capability of individual and cooperative decision-making to enact significant responses. IPCC's sixth assessment report (AR6) stated that conventional risk assessment approaches are challenged by the substantial spatial–temporal dynamics of climate change and the interaction of multiple risk factors. Advances in the emergent understanding of the interplay among hazard, vulnerability, and exposure have led to ever more comprehensive and sophisticated risk modeling and assessment approaches.
Therefore, this Special Issue in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) emphasizes the advanced approaches of climatic risk assessment in terms of hazard characterization, exposure assessment and vulnerability analysis for the present and future standpoints. New research papers, reviews, case reports and conference papers focusing on climate risks or other global disasters, and their consequences for people, food, water security, human well-being and marine economy, as well as national and international security, migration, economies and trade, are welcome in this Issue. We will accept manuscripts from different fields, including spatiotemporal characteristics and associated socioeconomic, environmental and health-related impacts of different hazards (e.g., hydrological, meteorology, climatology and COVID-19 pandemic), improved methods for reducing uncertainties, different adaptation and mitigation strategies and improving risk profiling.
Dr. Qigen Lin
Dr. Sanjit Kumar Mondal
Dr. Yuqu Wang
Dr. Haifeng Yang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- risk assessment
- climate change
- global warming
- climate-related hazards
- compound event
- COVID-19 pandemic
- socioeconomic impact
- health-related impact
- exposure
- vulnerability
- human well-being
- environmental migration
- economic damages and losses
- global climate model
