Impacts of hazards
PLOS publishes a broad range of Open impacts of hazards research that is essential to understanding how events and changes across the globe can affect our social, economic, and environmental wellbeing. Explore critical multidisciplinary research across hazard resilience, understanding, and planning.
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Impacts of hazards research at PLOS covers the breadth of natural and anthropogenic environmental hazards, encompassing topics such as climate change and extreme weather events, flooding and droughts, seismic hazards, and air, water, and plastic pollution.
The impacts of these hazards is equally broad, with work published investigating the social, economic and environmental implications and scientific understanding of such hazards whilst utilizing a wealth of research methods including artificial intelligence, modeling, qualitative research, and cross-sectional studies.
The research also develops practical tools for hazard resilience, from nature-based solutions to communication and hazard mapping.
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PLOS publishes a broad range of inter-disciplinary research in environmental science, spanning multiple journals, disciplines, and regions. Uncover further curated research and insights in the following fields:
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16,169 authors from 143 countries chose PLOS to publish their impacts of hazards research*
Reaching a global audience, this research has received over 18,802 news and blog mentions^
Research in this field has been cited 99,624 times
after authors published in a PLOS journal*
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*Data source: Web of Science. © Copyright Clarivate 2024 | January 2020 – April 2024
^Data source: Altmetric.com | January 2020 – April 2024
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