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Integrated and Solution-oriented Sustainability Research for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation

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One of the greatest challenges to global sustainability nowadays is the increasing intensity and magnitude of climate-related disasters around the world, causing the loss of human life and important economic damage. Storms, flooding, droughts, weather extremes, wildfires, landslides etc. are capturing the attention more and more due to their increasing impacts and severity. How climate change is likely to affect the disasters pattern in different parts of the world still remains a challenge for the scientific community. Scientists are, hence, urged to orient their vision towards integrated and solution-oriented sustainability research to be able to better predict and assess the hazardous phenomena in times of climate change. Science represents the basis for identifying and implementing innovative practices for a better management to increase the resilience and sustainability of the affected communities.

In this respect, the Topical Collection welcomes scientific papers from all over the world as well as from different (multi-, inter- and/or transdisciplinary) perspectives, addressing:

(a) Innovative methods and tools for assessing and mapping climate- and weather-driven hazards and risks; (b) Integrated scenarios for hazard and risk assessment; (c) Multi-hazard and/or multi-risk assessments, challenges with data integration and availability; (d) Methods for dealing with uncertainties in hazard and risk assessment; (e) Innovative management approaches for coping with hazards, risks and sustainability, solutions to promote adaptation and resilience of the communities; (f) Communication with stakeholders involved in the decision-making process of disaster management; (g) Community-driven solutions to promote adaptation and increase resilience to climate change and disasters.

The Keywords are:

Climate-induced hazards and risks; integrated research; stakeholders’ involvement; community-driven solutions; climate change adaptation; disaster resilience; sustainable disaster management

Editors

  • Mihaela Sima Mihaela Sima  &

    Mihaela Sima

    Dr. Mihaela Sima, Romanian Academy, Institute of Geography, Romania She is a Senior Researcher and coordinates the Environment and GIS Department of the Institute of Geography. She is also an associate lector at the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Geography. Her main expertise is on environmental sustainability and quality with a special emphasis on evaluating the impact of human activities on the environment, hazard and risk assessment as well as climate change impacts on different societal fields and climate adaptation options.

  • Marta Jurchescu Marta Jurchescu

    Marta Jurchescu

    Dr. Marta Jurchescu, Romanian Academy, Institute of Geography, Romania. Her expertise is in the field of natural hazard and risk assessment, especially linked to landslides and soil erosion. She was actively involved in several international (EC, CoE) and national projects, with contributions mainly related to evaluations of landslide susceptibility, hazard, vulnerability and risk at various spatial scales as well as to their evolutions under the impact of climate change. Approaches followed include analytical and integrated spatial investigations.

Articles (4 in this collection)