Editorial: Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI): Mitigating the Impact of Natural Hazards on Civil Infrastructure and Communities

Assessing and mitigating natural hazards in a very uncertain world

Using the Ellogon Natural Language Engineering Infrastructure

Ellogon is a multi-lingual, cross-operating system, general-purpose natural language engineering infrastructure. Ellogon has been used extensively in various NLP applications. It is currently provided for free for research use to research and academic organisations. In this paper, we outline its architecture and data model, present Ellogon features as used by different types of users and discus...

Reducing People’s Vulnerability to Natural Hazards Communities and Resilience

The concepts vulnerability, resilience and community are widely used and abused in the literature on natural hazards and disaster risk reduction. This paper seeks to bring greater rigour in their use. In particular, vulnerability must be understood as a set of socioeconomic conditions that are identifiable in relation to particular hazard risks, and therefore perform a predictive role that can ...

Natural Hazards, Fish Habitat, and Fishing Communities in Alaska

—Fish and fishing communities are iconic symbols of Alaska. Volcanoes, earthquakes, and tsunamis also stand out as processes that define or shape the Alaska landscape. Alaska has numerous fishing ports that regularly rank in the top 10 ports for commercial landings by weight and value in the United States. In addition to commercial fisheries, subsistence fisheries and sport fishing play an impo...

Infrastructure Systems Interdependencies and Risk Informed Decision Making (RIDM): Impact Scenario Analysis of Infrastructure Risks Induced by Natural, Technological and Intentional Hazards

Infrastructure can be defined as physical assets that are capable of an intended service delivery, comprising of rigid assets such as buildings, roads, bridges, and facilities, as well as flexible assets such as utilities and facilities related to water, sewage, power etc. including their systems and machinery. Infrastructure systems can be viewed as a structured network of interdependent mecha...