Prevention and Treatment of Natural Disasters

Topical Collection on "Resilience Planning for Critical Infrastructure Systems"

A topical collection of Prevention and Treatment of Natural Disasters (PTND) (E-ISSN: 2753-7544).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 4 December 2024

Collection Editor: 

Dr. Qiling Zou
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Interests: dynamic network modeling; infrastructure resilience; decision making for infrastructure systems; human evacuation; structural dynamics

 

Topical Collection Information:

Dear Colleagues,

The welfare of modern society relies on critical infrastructure systems (CISs) providing essential services that support safety, economic prosperity, and social sustainability. However, these systems are often subject to natural hazards, which can cause severe and widespread disruptions and consequences. This highlights the need for resilient infrastructure systems, which are able to withstand, adapt to, and recover quickly from disruptions. This special issue aims to promote the recent advances in the resilience planning of CISs. Potential themes for papers to be submitted to this Special Issue include but are not limited to the following:

  • Risk assessment;
  • Infrastructure resilience modeling;
  • Pre-disaster mitigation and post-disaster recovery;
  • Decision making;
  • Interdependencies between infrastructure systems.

Dr. Qiling Zou
Collection Editor

Keywords:

  • Critical infrastructure system
  • Resilience
  • Risk
  • Modeling
  • Optimization

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 "Resilience Planning for Critical Infrastructure Systems" 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.