Collection

Earth and Environmental Sciences: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies in a Multi-Risk Perspective

Submission status
Open
Open for submission from
14 April 2023
Submission deadline
31 May 2024
The growing concerns related to climate change and the increasing frequency of significant natural hazard impacts require the identification of adaptation and mitigation strategies. However, most of the time, risk reduction strategies consider one risk at a time and ignore the potential synergies (or conflicts) that these might have with other hazards. For instance, urban greening can be beneficial for both pluvial flooding and heat waves (synergy), and moving building contents to upper flood-safe floors can aggravate seismic risks (conflict). Therefore, each solution should be evaluated within the broad spectrum of multiple hazards in a multi-disciplinary way to promote risk capacity and resilience. This Topical Collection aims to profile a diverse range of mitigation and adaptations approaches within a multi-hazard and multi-risk perspective, including but not limited to structural and non-structural solutions, nature-based solutions, mapping and planning for reducing the impacts of multi-hazards on different exposed assets (e.g., infrastructures, building, population, cultural heritage etc.) with a quantitative evaluation of co-benefits or resolution of potential conflicts.

Editors

  • Chiara Arrighi Chiara Arrighi  &

    Chiara Arrighi

    Chiara Arrighi is an Assistant Professor of hydrology at the University of Florence, Italy. She holds a PhD cum laude from the TU Braunschweig (Germany). She is the associate of the UNESCO Chair on Prevention and Sustainable Management of Geo-hydrological Hazard. Her main research interests are flood hazard modelling, impact analysis of direct and indirect impacts, and sustainable use of water and environmental resources. She currently coordinates a 2-years research project entitled UNESCO-Resilience which aims at understanding the role of cultural heritage in shaping risk and resilience of the communities.

  • Tiago Miguel Ferreira Tiago Miguel Ferreira

    Tiago Miguel Ferreira

    Tiago Miguel Ferreira is an Assistant Professor in Civil Engineering at the School of Engineering of the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol), UK. Dr Ferreira’s research focuses on the structural vulnerability of historical buildings and urban areas to natural and anthropogenic hazards, specifically earthquakes, fires, floods, and landslides. More recently, he has expanded his focus to include the interaction between hazards and physical and social vulnerability in the context of single, compound, and cascading events. He edited several books on the topics of vulnerability and risk assessment and participated in many projects.

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