International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

The modern world is seeing an inexorable rise in the impact of disasters. Society is becoming more complex and interdependent, climate change is likely to produce more extreme meteorological phenomena, sea-level rise threatens coastal low-lying coastal areas, technological developments create new sources of disaster, and emerging risks present new challenges to crisis managers. Faced with more intense, frequent or complex impacts, there is a pressing need to conduct research into the sources of hazard, vulnerability, risk and disaster, to disseminate the results and use them for the purposes of reducing or coping better with the threats and risks.