Preface to the Special Issue on Geo-Disasters

Abstract

Exploring the mechanism of natural disasters and fighting against natural disasters are the eternal themes for human survival and development. Geo-disasters are one kind of natural hazards, including landslides, debris flows, earthquakes, liquefactions, which can result in serious causalities and economic loss. Therefore, geo-disaster prevention and reduction has been a grand research topic for many decades and a large number of achievements have been made in detection, monitoring, early warning and risk assessment of geo-disasters (