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Disaster Risk Reduction: In Support of the Sendai Framework and Improved Societal Well-Being

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Hazards and Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 5503

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Orhan Altan

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Department of Geomatics, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul 36626, Turkey
Interests: photogrammetry and remote sensing; geographic information system; hazard and risk management; 3S technology in SDGs
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Prof. Dr. Jie Jiang

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School of Geomatics and Urban Spatial Informatics, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Beijing 100044, China
Interests: GIS; land cover; change detection
Prof. Dr. Sisi Zlatanova

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Faculty of Built Environment, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
Interests: 3D indoor modelling; 3D GIS; integration of BIM and GIS; 3D spatial analysis; DBMS; emergency response
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Prof. Dr. Edoardo A. C. Costantini

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1. Academy of Georgofili, 50122 Florence, Italy
2. National Academy of Agriculture, 40124 Bologna, Italy
Interests: sustainable soil management; soil restoration and conservation; digital soil mapping and geodatabases; land suitability for winegrape and other quality crops
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Prof. Dr. Yasuhide Hobara

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Earth Environment Research Station, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Electro-Communications (UEC), Tokyo 182-8585, Japan
Interests: monitor and predict earth environment and mitigate natural disasters

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues，

Each year, disasters arising from storms, floods, volcanoes, and earthquakes cause thousands of deaths and tremendous damage to property around the world, displacing tens of thousands of people from their homes and destroying their livelihoods. In the last one and a half years, the world has experienced a pandemic of dimensions not experienced in recent decennia that halted life, trade, and production globally. We invite you to share your theoretical research, review studies, and experiments in this Special Issue. The Special Issue aims to:

  • Show the importance international geoscience bodies, governmental and non-governmental organizations, to identify, support, and advance initiatives to implement the Sendai Framework through interdisciplinary action.
  • Collect good practices on coordinating and supporting of the implementation initiatives for disaster risk management in accordance with the principles and goals of the Sendai Framework.
  • Demonstrate by examples the importance of advising on the rationale and role that science should play in disaster risk management and work to strengthen that rationale and role.
  • Illustrate the use and applicability of geospatial technologies in support of the variety of initiatives on Disaster Risk Reduction

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but not limited to) the topics as specified below:

  1. Geospatial data policy and practices and their harmonization under Sendai framework.
  2. Formal education and curricula development to emphasize on sustainable development as prescribed by Sendai Framework.
  3. Tools for dissemination of objective information about the current situation of disasters and plans for solution to avoid panic and wrong decision on various levels of state managements.
  4. Legal issues around interoperability, rights management, and privacy.
  5. Value and sustainability of developing SDI, Digital Twins, and Smart Cities to support DRR.
  6. Needs and gaps in data skills to interpret, process, analyse and estimate simulations and predictions with geospatial data to support decision-making process.
  7. Availability, findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability of geospatial data in for the purpose of DRR.
  8. The challenges in combining, integrating and analysis of geospatial data.
  9. Best practices of geospatial data use for DRR. 
  10. Best practices of cross collaboration between international and national organisations for DRR

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Dr. Orhan Altan
Prof. Dr. Jie Jiang
Prof. Dr. Sisi Zlatanova
Prof. Dr. Edoardo A. C. Costantini
Prof. Dr. Yasuhide Hobara
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • disaster risk management
  • GIS modelling
  • Sendai Framework
  • DRR
  • sustainable development

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General Knowledge Representation and Sharing, with Illustrations in Risk/Emergency Management
by Philippe A. Martin and Tullio J. Tanzi
Sustainability 2023, 15(14), 10803; https://doi.org/10.3390/su151410803 - 10 Jul 2023
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Many decision-making tasks, including the sustainability-oriented ones and those related to the management of risks or emergencies, must gather, integrate, and analyze an important amount of information of various kinds and origins. Hence, how should information be best organized and shared by agents [...] Read more.
Many decision-making tasks, including the sustainability-oriented ones and those related to the management of risks or emergencies, must gather, integrate, and analyze an important amount of information of various kinds and origins. Hence, how should information be best organized and shared by agents – people or software – for all and only the pieces of information looked for by these agents to be maximize their retrieval, reuse, organization and analysis by these agents? To that end, various logic-based knowledge representation (KR) and sharing (KS) techniques, and hence KR bases, have been used. However, most KS researchers focus on what this article defines as “restricted KR and KS”, where information providers and consumers can or have to discuss for solving information ambiguities and other problems. The first part of this article highlights the usefulness of “general KR and KS” and, for supporting them, provides a panorama of complementary techniques, and hence, indirectly, best practices or kinds of tools to use for general KS purposes. These techniques collectively answer research questions about how to support Web users in the collaborative building of KR bases. The second part uses the risk/emergency management domain to illustrate the ways different types of information can be represented to support general KS. Full article
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Establishment and Application of a Specialized Physical Examination Indicator System for Urban Waterlogging Risk in China
by Junqi Li, Haohan Zhang, Xiaoran Zhang and Wenliang Wang
Sustainability 2023, 15(6), 4998; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15064998 - 11 Mar 2023
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With the rapid development of urbanization in China, urban waterlogging has become a significant problem in constructing the safety of the human environment. As an essential manifestation of the modernization of the urban governance system and capacity, the city physical examination establishes a [...] Read more.
With the rapid development of urbanization in China, urban waterlogging has become a significant problem in constructing the safety of the human environment. As an essential manifestation of the modernization of the urban governance system and capacity, the city physical examination establishes a multi-criteria evaluation system for problem diagnosis, rectification, and improvement. In order to accurately identify the risk of urban waterlogging, the concept of special physical examination of urban waterlogging risk was established, and the evaluation mechanism and indicator definition were improved on the basis of the “four-factor method” of flooding disaster assessment. From the perspective of urban basin flood control capacity, background disaster-bearing conditions, “Major-Minor-Micro” drainage system capacity, crucial locations and personnel protection, and emergency management capacity, twenty-four indicators in five categories were selected. The interaction between multiple factors is considered to establish a special physical examination indicator system as a characteristic evaluation mechanism of waterlogging with the goal of urban safety and resilience. The results of the study could provide theoretical and technical support for the diagnosis of urban waterlogging risk problems and the formulation of prevention and control strategies. Full article
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Element of Disaster Risk Reduction in Geography Education in Malaysia
by Nabila Nurul Hawa, Sharifah Zarina Syed Zakaria, Muhammad Rizal Razman, Nuriah Abd Majid, Aizat Mohd Taib and Emrizal
Sustainability 2023, 15(2), 1326; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15021326 - 10 Jan 2023
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Currently, there are many natural disasters such as floods, landslides, earthquakes, and climate change. These disasters certainly affect the conditions of human life from economic, social, and environmental perspectives. Therefore, it is necessary to take preventive action and learn so that people understand [...] Read more.
Currently, there are many natural disasters such as floods, landslides, earthquakes, and climate change. These disasters certainly affect the conditions of human life from economic, social, and environmental perspectives. Therefore, it is necessary to take preventive action and learn so that people understand the potential for disasters and how to deal with them. The geography education curriculum is one of the subjects that contains topics on disaster education, but this has not been carried out thoroughly in Malaysia. This study analysed the types of natural disasters and elements of priorities for action in reducing disaster risks, based on the Sendai framework. The data were collected from the Ministry of Education Malaysia, namely Kurikulum Standard Sekolah Menengah (KSSM) of Geography form 4 and 5 Secondary School, geography textbook form 4, and geography textbook form 5. The data were analysed by a qualitative method with a content analysis approach. All documents were analysed with a focus on disaster risk reduction materials, based on the Sendai framework. As a result, the geography education curriculum for secondary schools in Malaysia has included these types of natural disasters: earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, landslides, droughts, hurricanes, and volcanoes. It also includes four elements of priority action for disaster risk reduction, albeit with an uneven composition. Overall, this study has shown that elements of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) were included in the geography education curriculum for secondary schools in Malaysia. Full article
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