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Technologies for disaster risk management and resilience

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Natural and man-made disasters have significant social, economic, and environmental impact. In 2015, the United Nations formally recognised, through the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, the need for international cooperation toward reducing disaster risk, and loss of lives, livelihoods, and health. Along with the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement, the Sendai Framework underlines the importance of science and technology in accelerating all aspects of disaster risk reduction, and calls for international cooperation and global partnership among scientific and technological communities to extend critical knowledge, in order to prevent and mitigate future disasters, and develop strategies for effective disaster risk management, response, recovery, and resilience.

In the spirit of the Sendai Framework, this collection aims to gather the latest technological advances aimed towards measuring and anticipating the effects of future hazards. We will consider research in the fields of engineering, robotics, remote sensing, forecasting, and data science, and papers that focus on reducing our exposure and susceptibility, ensuring sustainable land and environmental management, improving preparedness for disruptive events, and raising resilience.

Hurricane Florence over the Atlantics close to the US coast, viewed from the space station. Gaping eye of a category 4 hurricane. Elements of this image furnished by NASA. - stock photo

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