Call for Papers - npj Natural Hazards: Weather and Climate-Induced Multi-Hazard Futures: Forecast, Communication, and Preparedness for Society
Rongkun LIU
Dear Colleagues,
I am writing to let you know that npj Natural Hazards (https://www.nature.com/npjnathazards) is currently welcoming submissions of original research/review articles/commentary to the "Weather and Climate-Induced Multi-Hazard Futures: Forecast, Communication, and Preparedness for Society" Collection. As Guest Editor for the Collection, I hope you will consider this as an outlet for a future research paper.
This collection invites researchers to delve into the social dimensions of compounding and cascading weather- and climate-related hazards in an increasingly interconnected multi-hazard world. It examines how diverse extremes—such as heatwaves, floods, storms, droughts, and coastal events—interact across space and time to amplify risk, and how weather and climate information is produced, translated, communicated, and used within real decision contexts marked by uncertainty and inequality. The collection emphasizes people-centered, just, and inclusive approaches to early warning, preparedness, and risk-informed planning, attending to governance, institutions, vulnerabilities, and access to information. It particularly welcomes interdisciplinary work that turns multi-hazard forecasts and projections into usable, context-specific knowledge by bridging scientific, Indigenous, and local knowledge systems, and by linking short-term forecasting with longer-term climate decision-making across sectors and scales.
Full details about the Collection can be found here: https://www.nature.com/collections/facabjihee.
Submissions will be welcomed at any point up until 30 September 2026, but if you are unable to submit a manuscript before this date, please let us/me know as we may be able to be flexible.
Please note that articles submitted to the Collection are subject to an article processing charge. For more information on the article processing charge for npj Natural Hazards, please see here. All manuscripts will be considered for publication according to the editorial policies of npj Natural Hazards.
Due to launch, a number of APC waivers are available and will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
If you wish to discuss the specific scope of a potential submission to this Collection in more detail, please don't hesitate to get in touch with me.
Should you wish to submit a manuscript to this Collection, please get in touch with the journal’s Commissioning Editor, Shuqi Fang on shuqi.fang @ cn.springernature.com who will be able to provide more information.
This article Collection is a great opportunity to highlight this important area of research, and we hope you will be able to contribute.
Please don't hesitate to let me know if you have any questions.
Kind Regards
Rongkun Liu, PhD
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development