Perspectives on challenges and step changes for addressing natural hazards
Perspectives on challenges and step changes for addressing natural hazards
Editor(s): Heidi Kreibich, Bruce D. Malamud, Paolo Tarolli, and Uwe Ulbrich
This special issue looks at perspectives from organizations on challenges and step changes for addressing natural hazards. In this special issue, we ask representatives of national and international organizations to identify, from the point of view of the organization, (i) what the most pressing scientific challenge(s) with respect to natural hazards is and (ii) what broad step change(s) should or could be achieved by the scientific natural hazard community to address natural hazards.

The format will be one- to two-page invited perspectives (not including any references cited).

This special issue will be published as part of the 20th anniversary of the journal Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS). We invite any representatives of national or international organizations involved with natural hazards to write to the guest editors (NHESS executive editors) for inclusion in this special issue.

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24 Aug 2022
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Invited perspectives: Views of 350 natural hazard community members on key challenges in natural hazards research and the Sustainable Development Goals
Robert Šakić Trogrlić, Amy Donovan, and Bruce D. Malamud
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 22, 2771–2790, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-2771-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-2771-2022, 2022
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13 Jun 2022
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Invited perspectives: Challenges and step changes for natural hazard – perspectives from the German Committee for Disaster Reduction (DKKV)
Benni Thiebes, Ronja Winkhardt-Enz, Reimund Schwarze, and Stefan Pickl
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 22, 1969–1972, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-1969-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-1969-2022, 2022
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02 Jun 2022
Invited perspectives: When research meets practice: challenges, opportunities, and suggestions from the implementation of the Floods Directive in the largest Italian river basin
Tommaso Simonelli, Laura Zoppi, Daniela Molinari, and Francesco Ballio
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 22, 1819–1823, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-1819-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-1819-2022, 2022
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24 Mar 2022
Brief communication: Key papers of 20 years in Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
Animesh K. Gain, Yves Bühler, Pascal Haegeli, Daniela Molinari, Mario Parise, David J. Peres, Joaquim G. Pinto, Kai Schröter, Ricardo M. Trigo, María Carmen Llasat, and Heidi Kreibich
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 22, 985–993, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-985-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-985-2022, 2022
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17 Mar 2022
Invited Perspectives: “Small country, big challenges – Switzerland's hazard prevention research”
Dorothea Wabbels and Gian Reto Bezzola
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 22, 927–930, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-927-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-927-2022, 2022
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01 Mar 2022
Invited perspectives: how does climate change affect the risk of natural hazards? Challenges and step changes from the reinsurance perspective
Anja T. Rädler
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 22, 659–664, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-659-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-659-2022, 2022
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19 Jan 2022
Invited perspectives: “Natural hazard management, professional development and gender equity: let's get down to business”
Valeria Cigala, Giulia Roder, and Heidi Kreibich
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 22, 85–96, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-85-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-85-2022, 2022
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15 Jul 2021
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Invited perspectives: The ECMWF strategy 2021–2030 challenges in the area of natural hazards
Florian Pappenberger, Florence Rabier, and Fabio Venuti
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 21, 2163–2167, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-2163-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-2163-2021, 2021
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11 May 2021
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Invited perspectives: Landslide populations – can they be predicted?
Fausto Guzzetti
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 21, 1467–1471, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-1467-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-1467-2021, 2021
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