Topical Collection on "Coastal Community Resilience under Hurricanes"

A topical collection of Prevention and Treatment of Natural Disasters (PTND) (E-ISSN: 2753-7544).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 November 2024

Collection Editor: 

Dr. Teng Wu
Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA
Interests: wind engineering; hurricane engineering; structural engineering; bridge engineering; nonlinear/transient aerodynamics; performance-based wind design; community resilience; climate change; computational fluid dynamics; reduced-order modeling; knowledge-enhanced machine learning

Topical Collection Information:

Dear Colleagues,

Coastal communities face unique challenges when subjected to natural hazards, and particularly hurricanes (including strong wind, heavy rain, high surge/wave, and severe flooding) which are among the most devastating ones. Hence, it is of critical importance to improve the resilience of such regions to hurricane events, by reinforcing the long-term mitigation strategies, pre-disaster preparedness, during-disaster response, post-disaster recovery, as well as climate adaptability of coastal communities. Recent decades have witnessed the great success of using advanced schemes to enhance the community resilience by collectively improving the ability of a coastal community to adapt to changing conditions, and to withstand and recover rapidly from disruptions caused by hurricane hazards. To explore the potential benefits of technological and methodological advancements, this special collection solicits the latest progress in the research of leveraging advanced tools to assess and enhance the coastal community resilience under hurricane hazards. The topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Quantification and forecasting of hurricane hazards;
• Hurricane impact on structures and infrastructure systems under changing climate;
• Risk analysis of coastal infrastructure subject to hurricanes;
• Hurricane resilience assessment and enhancement of coastal infrastructure;
• Social equity in community resilience planning for hurricanes;
• Hurricane mitigation strategies for coastal infrastructure;
• Emergency response and evacuation procedures;
• Post-hurricane recovery of coastal communities;
• Climate adaptation of hurricane-sensitive coastal infrastructure.

Dr. Teng Wu
Collection Editor

Keywords:

• Hurricane
• Coastal community
• Resilience
• Climate change

Manuscript Submission Information:

Please visit the Submissions Guidelines page before submitting a manuscript. Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Manuscripts should be submitted online through the online manuscript submission and editorial system. Additionally, please include a cover letter specifying that the manuscript is intended for the Topical Collection "Coastal Community Resilience under Hurricanes" when submitting it online. Manuscripts can be submitted until the submission deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal and will be listed together on the Topical Collection website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract can be sent to the Editorial Office ptnd@ukscip.com for announcement on this website.

The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 600 USD. Authors who are unable to cover this cost or those who are invited to submit papers may be eligible for discounts or waivers.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a double-blind peer-review process.

Published Papers:

This Topical Collection is now open for submission.