Georisk Assessment and Management of Risk for Engineered Systems and Geohazards

期刊简介：Georisk covers many diversified but interlinked areas of active research and practice, such as geohazards (earthquakes, landslides, avalanches, rockfalls, tsunamis, etc.), safety of engineered systems (dams, buildings, offshore structures, lifelines, etc.), environmental risk, seismic risk, reliability-based design and code calibration, geostatistics, decision analyses, structural reliability, maintenance and life cycle performance, risk and vulnerability, hazard mapping, loss assessment (economic, social, environmental, etc.), GIS databases, remote sensing, and many other related disciplines. The underlying theme is that uncertainties associated with geomaterials (soils, rocks), geologic processes, and possible subsequent treatments, are usually large and complex and these uncertainties play an indispensable role in the risk assessment and management of engineered and natural systems. Significant theoretical and practical challenges remain on quantifying these uncertainties and developing defensible risk management methodologies that are acceptable to decision makers and stakeholders. Many opportunities to leverage on the rapid advancement in Bayesian analysis, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and other data-driven methods also exist, which can greatly enhance our decision-making abilities. The basic goal of this international peer-reviewed journal is to provide a multi-disciplinary scientific forum for cross fertilization of ideas between interested parties working on various aspects of georisk to advance the state-of-the-art and the state-of-the-practice. Besides acting as a focused forum and promoting integration between disciplines, other key features of this journal include: Fostering dissemination of information between research and practice. Encouraging practice-oriented papers. Encouraging papers reporting actual statistics with supporting databases. Encouraging papers developing modern data-driven methods that can derive deep insights from real-world multivariate, incomplete, and uncertain data. Including occasional educational papers that would enhance the knowledge and understanding of the non-specialist. Including cross-disciplinary papers that enhance the social and behavioral dimensions in risk dialogue between scientists, policy makers, and the public for improving risk communications and promoting a more balanced risk debate in general. In consultation with the editors, distinguished members of the georisk community may be invited to serve as guest editors covering focused themes such as natural hazards, dam safety, offshore safety, seismic risk, environmental risk, reliability-based design, geostatistics and probabilistic site characterization, probabilistic finite element methods, case histories, GIS databases, machine learning, and other related topics. The following types of manuscripts are welcome: Reviews, Original Articles, Technical Notes, Discussions, Conference Reports, Event Announcements, Georisk Letters, and Special Issue Articles All published research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymous refereeing by independent expert referees. STAR Taylor & Francis/Routledge are committed to the widest possible dissemination of its journals to non-profit institutions in developing countries. Our STAR initiative offers individual researchers in Africa, South Asia and many parts of South East Asia the opportunity to gain one month’s free online access to 1,300 Taylor & Francis journals. For more information, please visit the STAR website.

【译文】地质风险涵盖了许多多样化但相互关联的活跃研究和实践领域，例如地质灾害（地震、山体滑坡、雪崩、落石、海啸等）、工程系统的安全（水坝、建筑物、海上结构、生命线等）、环境风险、地震风险、基于可靠性的设计和代码校准、地质统计学、决策分析、结构可靠性、维护和生命周期性能、风险和脆弱性、危害绘图、损失评估（经济、社会、环境等）、GIS 数据库、遥感以及许多其他相关学科。基本主题是，与地质材料（土壤、岩石）、地质过程以及可能的后续处理相关的不确定性通常很大且复杂，这些不确定性在工程和自然系统的风险评估和管理中发挥着不可或缺的作用。在量化这些不确定性和开发决策者和利益相关者可以接受的可防御的风险管理方法方面仍然存在重大的理论和实践挑战。贝叶斯分析、机器学习、人工智能和其他数据驱动方法的快速发展也存在许多机会，可以极大地提高我们的决策能力。这本国际同行评审期刊的基本目标是提供一个多学科的科学论坛，以便从事地质风险各个方面工作的相关各方之间相互交流思想，以推进最先进的技术和最先进的实践。除了充当重点论坛和促进学科之间的融合外，该期刊的其他主要特点包括： 促进研究和实践之间的信息传播。鼓励以实践为导向的论文。鼓励论文报告带有支持数据库的实际统计数据。鼓励论文开发现代数据驱动的方法，可以从现实世界的多元、不完整和不确定的数据中获得深刻的见解。包括偶尔的教育论文，以增强非专业人士的知识和理解。包括增强科学家、政策制定者和公众之间风险对话的社会和行为维度的跨学科论文，以改善风险沟通并促进总体上更加平衡的风险辩论。与编辑协商后，地质风险界的杰出成员可能会被邀请担任客座编辑，涵盖的主题包括自然灾害、大坝安全、近海安全、地震风险、环境风险、基于可靠性的设计、地质统计学和概率场地特征、概率有限元方法、案例历史、GIS 数据库、机器学习和其他相关主题。欢迎以下类型的稿件：评论、原创文章、技术说明、讨论、会议报告、活动公告、Georisk Letters 和特刊文章 本期刊中所有发表的研究文章都经过严格的同行评审，基于最初的编辑筛选和独立专家审稿人的匿名评审。 STAR Taylor & Francis/Routledge 致力于向发展中国家的非营利机构尽可能广泛地传播其期刊。我们的 STAR 计划为非洲、南亚和东南亚许多地区的个人研究人员提供了一个月免费在线访问 1,300 种 Taylor & Francis 期刊的机会。欲了解更多信息，请访问STAR网站。