Disaster and emergency preparedness
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Communities around the world face a range of potential hazards. The harm caused by natural phenomena like earthquakes, hurricanes, and volcanic eruptions depends not only on their severity, but also on the preparedness and resilience of the affected communities. Anthropogenic climate change has increased the frequency and intensity of some natural hazards, including floods, heat waves, and severe cold. Meanwhile, population growth has led to the increased vulnerability of many communities to disasters and emergencies, particularly in coastal and urban areas. As the population ages, more individuals also become especially threatened by the consequences of such events, including epidemics and other public health emergencies. Disasters can also be generated entirely by humans, such as cyber attacks. To deal with emergencies and disasters of all types, communities from the international to the local level must be prepared with a framework of prevention, mitigation, response, and recovery approaches.
This Collection welcomes original research on all aspects of disaster and emergency preparedness, from risk assessment to executing an effective response.
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This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 11 and SDG 3.
Editors
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Tina Comes, PhD
TU Delft, The Netherlands
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Erick Mas, PhD
International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University, Japan
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Markus Ries, M.D., Ph.D., M.H.Sc., M.A., FCP
Pediatric Neurology and Metabolic Medicine, Center for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
Tina Comes, PhD, TU Delft, The Netherlands
Tina Comes is Full Professor in Decision Theory & ICT for Resilience at the Technical University of Delft. She is a member of the Norwegian Academy for Technological Sciences and the Academia Europaea. She serves as the Scientific Director of the 4TU.Centre for Resilience Engineering and she advised the European Commission on its strategic crisis management. Prof. Comes has been an Editorial Board member for Scientific Reports since 2021.
Erick Mas, PhD, Associate Professor, International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University
Erick Mas is an Associate Professor at the International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS) and has been appointed to the Tough Cyberphysical AI Research Center, the Co-Creation Center for Disaster Resilience, and the Core Research Cluster of Disaster Science at Tohoku University. He is a Technical Advisor to the RTi-cast; a technology firm to offer real-time tsunami inundation damage forecast services to government organizations and commercial clients. His research activities include agent-based modeling, tsunami risk reduction, evacuation simulation, and geoinformatics for disaster science. Dr. Mas has been an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports since 2023.
Markus Ries, M.D., Ph.D., M.H.Sc., M.A., FCP, Pediatric Neurology and Metabolic Medicine, Center for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
Markus Ries, M.D., Ph.D., M.H.Sc., M.A., FCP is a board-certified pediatrician and physician-scientist at Heidelberg University Hospital and Fellow at the Marsilius-Kolleg, the Institute for Advanced Study of Heidelberg University, Germany. As lieutenant colonel he coordinated the medical civil-military disaster relief efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic response in the Heidelberg region between 2020 and 2022. His research interests include disaster resilience. Prof. Ries has been an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports since 2023.
Image credit: © Marsilius-Kolleg University Heidelberg | Photographer: Tobias Schwerdt
