TY - BOOK ID - 137234728 TI - Inaugural Section Special Issue : Key Topics and Future Perspectives in Natural Hazards Research PY - 2021 PB - Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute DB - UniCat KW - big data KW - disaster management KW - review KW - natural hazards KW - disaster KW - scientometrics KW - bibliometrics KW - citation analysis KW - NatCatSERVICE KW - Sigma Explorer KW - Oroville Dam KW - spillway KW - incident KW - flood control KW - flood-frequency analysis KW - dam operation KW - drought KW - impacts KW - exposure KW - vulnerability KW - risk KW - policy KW - risk assessment KW - earthquake risk KW - energy security KW - reliability of power supply KW - Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) KW - integration process KW - common electricity market KW - masonry aggregates KW - vulnerability assessment KW - vulnerability curves KW - damage scenarios KW - local hazard effect KW - psychological representation of earthquakes KW - open-ended and closed-questions surveys KW - children KW - seismic hazard assessment KW - emotions KW - emotional prevention KW - African easterly wave KW - attractor coexistence KW - chaos KW - hurricane KW - limit cycle KW - Lorenz model KW - predictability KW - recurrence KW - extended range weather prediction KW - Jakarta basin KW - site effects KW - shear-wave velocity KW - urban fabrics KW - seismic vulnerability KW - critic analysis KW - cost modelling KW - urban preservation programming KW - building works programming KW - natural hazard KW - earthquake KW - dam spillway KW - psychology KW - cyber-infrastructure UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137234728 AB - This book collects selected high-quality papers published in 2018–2020 to inaugurate the “Natural Hazards” Section of the Geosciences journal. The topics encompass: trends in publications at international level in the field of natural hazards research; the role of Big Data in natural disaster management; assessment of seismic risk through the understanding and quantification of its different components; climatic/hydro-meteorological hazards; and finally, the scientific analysis and disaster forensics of recent natural hazard events. The target audience includes not only specialists, but also graduate students who wish to approach the challenging, but also fascinating ER -