Hazard mitigation and emergency preparedness practices can limit physical impacts of natural disasters, while community recovery resources and extra-community assistance can reduce social impacts.

ASSESSING COMMUNITY IMPACTS OF NATURAL DISASTERS

This paper highlights the need for improved assessment methods and a better understanding of the social-ecological dimensions of vulnerability and risk to natural hazards, to better design and implement ecosystem-based adaptation strategies.

The social–ecological dimension of vulnerability and risk to natural hazards

Local government engagement in hazard mitigation, through community education and infrastructural safeguards, can help reduce the impact of natural hazards on human communities.

Reducing hazard vulnerability through local government engagement and action

Australian communities have moderate resilience to natural hazards, but need improvement in leadership and preparedness, with self-efficacy and well-being playing key roles.

Community resilience across Australia towards natural hazards: an application of the Conjoint Community Resiliency Assessment Measurement.

The PRISM approach can effectively identify community vulnerabilities in social, cultural, economic, and built systems, aiding in mitigation planning and comparative analyses.

Application of a multi-hazard risk assessment for local planning

Integrating risk management activities with community development strategies can increase community preparedness for natural hazards, with cross-cultural validity.

Making sense of natural hazard mitigation: Personal, social and cultural influences

Vulnerability assessment in natural hazard risk assessment needs a more comprehensive approach, considering socio-ecological vulnerability and resilience, to better understand the impact of natural hazards on society and elements at risk.

Foreword: Vulnerability assessment in natural hazard risk—a dynamic perspective

Additional context-specific non-market valuation studies are needed to accurately estimate intangible benefits and costs of natural hazard mitigation investments.

Valuing non-market economic impacts from natural hazards

A shift from top-down to community-centric early warning systems can improve disaster risk reduction and reduce vulnerability in vulnerable communities.

From Top-Down to “Community-Centric” Approaches to Early Warning Systems: Exploring Pathways to Improve Disaster Risk Reduction Through Community Participation

Integrating social and natural sciences in vulnerability assessment can enhance our understanding and adaptability to global change processes.

Vulnerability assessment in natural hazard and risk analysis: current approaches and future challenges

This special issue highlights the need for interdisciplinary approaches to assess vulnerability and resilience in natural hazard management, integrating adaptation and mitigation approaches into governance arrangements.

Editorial to the special issue on resilience and vulnerability assessments in natural hazard and risk analysis

ICON principles, promoting integrated approaches, coordinated processes, open science, and networked efforts, are crucial for effective multihazard multisector risk management in natural hazards.

Natural Hazards Perspectives on Integrated, Coordinated, Open, Networked (ICON) Science

Current cost assessments of natural hazards are often incomplete and biased, with insufficient data sources and knowledge gaps hindering comprehensive and comparable cost figures.

Review article: assessing the costs of natural hazards - state of the art and knowledge gaps

This study presents a methodology to estimate the services accessibility risk (SAR) in urban contexts, considering road accessibility and connections between service providers and users, to better understand social and economic impacts of hydrologic hazards.

Service Accessibility Risk (SAR) Assessment for Pluvial and Fluvial Floods in an Urban Context

Natural hazard assessments need to be better than current practices, as they often underestimate events and require costly mitigation measures to reduce losses.

Groundwork: How good do natural hazard assessments need to be?

This paper reviews global natural hazard risk assessments, highlighting similarities and differences in approaches, and suggests learning opportunities between disciplines and spatial scales.

Review article: Natural hazard risk assessments at the global scale

Multi-risk assessment methodologies for natural hazards often overlook climate change effects and rely on static vulnerability, highlighting the need for comprehensive approaches that consider dynamic exposure and vulnerability.

A review of multi-risk methodologies for natural hazards: Consequences and challenges for a climate change impact assessment.

Mitigation of these impacts is possible for some ecosystems, but not for others, as climate change and other environmental factors are unavoidable and require a holistic approach to sustainability.

Mitigation of Hazard Impacts on Ecosystems and Their Inhabitants: Possible for Some, Not Possible for Others

Pakistan's current risk analysis and management strategies are outdated, focusing on single hazards and ignoring the co-occurrence impact of various natural hazards.

A Review of Spatial Variations of Multiple Natural Hazards and Risk Management Strategies in Pakistan

Decision analysis can improve natural hazard management by estimating probabilities, assessing impacts, and evaluating mitigation options.

Decision Analysis for Management of Natural Hazards

How do we assess and mitigate the impacts of natural hazards on communities?

These studies suggest that assessing and mitigating the impacts of natural hazards on communities involves hazard mitigation practices, improved assessment methods, local government engagement, community-centric early warning systems, and integrating social and natural sciences.