STM Publisher World Scientific has announced the launch of Journal of Extreme Events. The objective of the journal is to provide a forum for analysis of the occurrence, impact, and significance of extreme events on natural and human systems. The Journal will provide a range of opportunities for manuscripts including original research papers, review assessments, and science-policy statements. Readership for the journal will come from a range of academic disciplines as well as research-oriented practitioner and stakeholder professions.
Journal content, although not exclusively, will focus on extreme weather and climate events and their connections with natural and human system processes. The study of other types of extreme events will be examined as they relate to and inform understanding of local and global environmental changes and their implications.
Main thematic areas of the Journal will include conditions, drivers and impacts of extreme events on the natural systems and human systems; conditions, drivers and impacts of extreme events on coupled human and natural systems; extreme events as surprises and associated uncertainty; indicators and monitoring of extreme events and early warning systems; and scalar aspects of extreme events - local, regional, and global dimensions.
Others include risk analysis and social learning from extreme events in the context of climate non-stationarity; exposure and vulnerability to extreme events; extreme events and system transitions; and resilience to extreme events, and sustainability and transformation.
