Please find attached the Call for Papers for the Special Issue on Community Resilience to Disruptive Events: Models and Analyses, Lessons Learned, and Case Studies.
Guest Editors
- Cao Wang, University of Wollongong, Australia, wangc@uow.edu.au
- Matthias G.R. Faes, TU Dortmund University, Germany, matthias.faes@tu-dortmund.de
- Michael Beer, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany, beer@irz.uni-hannover.de
- Enrico Zio, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, enrico.zio@polimi.it
- John W. van de Lindt, Colorado State University, USA, jwv@engr.colostate.edu
Aims & Scope
Many types of disruptive events, such as earthquakes, tropical cyclones, floods, wildfires, and remarkably the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, have threatened communities around the world with dramatic consequences. With respect to this, society is asking justified questions: how resilient is our community against disruptive events? How can we use resilience approaches to counteract disruptive events? What lessons can we learn from real-world practices to enhance the resilience of our community? This Special Issue is aimed at gathering contributions of methods, lessons, and practices useful to achieve community resilience in the face of disruptive events. Papers discussing the impacts of disruptive events on a community’s resilience in terms of functionality loss and recovery process, uncertainty quantification in community resilience modeling, resilience approaches to counteract impacts of disruptive events, and critical lessons learned from existing practices towards enhancing community resilience are all solicited.