Prevention Mitigation And Relief Of Compound And Chained Natural Hazards Volume Ii
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Prevention, Mitigation, and Relief of Compound and Chained Natural Hazards, volume II
The field of natural hazard research has become increasingly critical due to the intensification of global climate and environmental changes, which have led to the frequent occurrence of natural hazards. These hazards often overlap, interact, or occur in a chain reaction, resulting in significant disaster losses with wide-ranging impacts over extended periods. Major earthquakes, geological hazards, extreme meteorological events, large-scale floods, droughts, marine disasters, and forest and grassland fires are among the key factors affecting human safety and economic development worldwide. Recent studies have highlighted the need for advanced perception, intelligent early warning systems, accurate prevention strategies, and efficient rescue operations to mitigate these hazards. However, there remain significant gaps in understanding the compound and chained relationships between different types of natural hazards, necessitating further investigation and innovative approaches.
Prevention, Mitigation, and Relief of Compound and Chained Natural Hazards
At present, the intensification of global climate and environmental change has led to frequent occurrence of natural hazards. Various types of natural hazards always overlap and interact, or occur in a chain reaction, with a wide range of impacts and a long period of time, resulting in serious disaster losses. Typically, major earthquakes and geological hazards, extreme meteorological hazards, large-scale floods and droughts, marine disasters, and forest and grassland fires, as well as their compound and chained hazards are among the key factors affecting human life safety and world economic development. To better our understanding of disaster prevention, mitigation, and relief, it is thus pivotal to facilitate advanced perception, intelligent early warning, accurate prevention, and efficient rescue of natural hazards. This Research Topic aims to collect both Original Research and Review articles addressing the state-of-the-art advances of theories and methodologies in all types of natural hazards. Studies underlining the compound and chained relationship between different hazards are in particular welcomed. Potential themes include, but are not limited to: • Mechanisms of formation, evolution, and disaster process of multiple natural hazards as well as their compound and chained natural hazards • Model and scenario development regarding whole process control, chain breaking of key nodes, and precise prevention of major natural hazard chains • Methods and applications on detection, identification, database establishment, and spatiotemporal evolution law analysis of natural hazard sources • Technologies on intelligent early warning and refined risk assessment of compound and chained natural hazards. • Rescue equipment and investigation of post-disaster community reconstruction
At Risk
The second edition of At Risk confronts a further ten years of ever more expensive and deadly disasters since it was first published, and argues that extreme natural events are not disasters until a vulnerable group of people is exposed.