Natural Hazards is devoted to original research work on all aspects of natural hazards, the forecasting of catastrophic events, their risk management, and the nature of precursors of natural and/or technological hazards.

Although the origin of hazards can be different sources and systems (atmospheric, hydrologic, oceanographic, volcanologic, seismic, neotectonic), the environmental impacts are equally catastrophic. This circumstance warrants a tight interaction between the different scientific and operational disciplines, which should enhance the mitigation of hazards.

Hazards of interest to the journal are included in the following sections: general, atmospheric, climatological, oceanographic, storm surges, tsunamis, floods, snow, avalanches, landslides, erosion, earthquakes, volcanoes, man-made, technological, and risk assessment. The interactions between these hazards and society are also addressed in the journal and include risk governance, disaster response and preventive actions such as spatial planning and remedial measures.

original research

Editors-in-Chief:
Thomas Glade
Department of Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna, Austria
James Goff
School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, UNSW Australia, Sydney, Australia
Harsh Gupta
National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, India

Associate Editors:
Isabelle Ansorge, Department of Oceanography, University of Cape Town, RSA
Baldev Raj Arora,Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun, India
David M. Kennedy, The University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Jonathan Nott, College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Cairns, QLD, Australia
Daisuke Sugawara, Museum of Natural and Environmental History, Shizuoka City, Shizuoka, Japan
James Terry, College of Natural and Health Sciences, Zayed University, Dubai, UAE
Gabriel Vargas Easton, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile


Editorial Advisory Board:
T. Beer, Safe System Solutions Pty Ltd, Brunswick, Australia; K.-T. Chang, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; S.L. Cutter, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA; A. Dix,Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg, Bamberg,Germany; S.K. Dube, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India; V. Gitis, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia; A.J. Kappos, City University, London, UK; M.L. Khandekar, Unionville, Canada; A. Kijko, University of Pretoria,South Africa;T.-F. Mahdi, Montreal Polytechnic Institute, Canada; R. Musson, British Geological Survey, Edinburgh, UK; N. Nirupama, York University, Toronto, Canada; M. Pelling, King's College London, UK; A.D. Rao, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India; G. Suarez, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico; Y.-M. Wei,Beijing Institute of Technology, China; D.A. Wilhite, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, NE,USA; W. Zglobicki,Institute for Earth Sciences UMCS, Lublin, Poland