There has been enormous progress in science and technology in different areas of disaster risk over the past decades, yet the impact of disasters continues to increase around the globe. In the first two decades of the 21st century alone, 7,348 disaster events occurred worldwide, involving around 1.23 million human losses, more than 4 billion people affected and economic losses on the order of 2.97 trillion USD. Therefore, it is necessary to reflect on why research does not seem to be used in Disaster Risk Management (DRM) as much as it is needed. Owing to the gap between the generation and use of knowledge, strengthening the science-policy and practice interface within the sphere of DRM remains a critical challenge. In particular, we seek to explore and integrate research findings from convergent Earth sciences, based on multi, inter and transdisciplinary approaches, and examples and good practices of informed implementation of DRM. Potential topics include but are not limited to the following: Keywords: Policy Making, Integrated Disaster Risk Research, Disaster Risk Management, Disaster Risk Reduction, transdisciplinary approaches Important Note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review. |