Extreme Events

Storms, wildfires, heatwaves, droughts, and floods are some examples of extreme weather and climate events. Evidence from the European Environment Agency shows that extreme weather events have already ‘accounted for economic losses of around half a trillion euros over the past 40 years and led to between 85,000 and 145,000 human fatalities across Europe’. As Earth’s climate changes, it is anticipated that extreme events will become more common and that we will need to find ways to manage urban and natural environments to resist the environmental, economic, and social effects of these occurrences.
Research in this collection will look at the impact of extreme events on both human and natural system processes, with a view to growing our understanding of the processes controlling events, as well as identifying policy and management solutions for resilience at a local and global scale. Topics could include, but are not limited to:

• Drivers and conditions of extreme events
• Extreme event modelling and forecasting
• Community resilience to extreme events
• Impact of extreme events on human health and health systems
• Risk assessment and prediction from extreme events and compound events
• Impact of extreme events on ecosystems