Editorial Note on the 10-Year Anniversary of the International Journal of Disaster Risk Science: A Thank You Letter
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EDITORIAL
Editorial Note on the 10-Year Anniversary of the International Journal of Disaster Risk Science: A Thank You Letter Peijun Shi1 • Carlo Jaeger2
Published online: 28 August 2020 Ó The Author(s) 2020
This year marks the 10-year anniversary of the International Journal of Disaster Risk Science (IJDRS). On this occasion, as Editors-in-Chief, we are deeply grateful for the support and contribution of many who have enabled the growth of the journal over the past decade—contributing authors from many disciplines around the world, our reviewers who have volunteered their valuable time and expertise, dedicated editorial board members and our tireless and meticulous editorial team, and after all, you, millions of global readers who share the mission of making our world safer. Thank you all!
1 How did It Start? The impetus for the initiation of the IJDRS had to do with two major disaster events and two major scientific endeavors. The former symbolized the context and call for integrated disaster risk studies responsive to rapidly changing Chinese and global situations, whereas the later provided enabling conditions. The two disaster events are the Wenchuan Earthquake and the global finical crisis. Occurring on 12 May 2008, the
& Peijun Shi [email protected] & Carlo Jaeger [email protected] 1
Academy of Disaster Reduction and Emergency Management, Ministry of Emergency Management and Ministry of Education, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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Global Climate Forum, 10178 Berlin, Germany
Wenchuan Earthquake was the most severe earthquake disaster in China since the Tangshan Earthquake of 1976, which took place right before the beginning of the opening up and reform period in China in the late 1970s. Thus, the Wenchuan Earthquake brought about broad reflections on the rapidly changing vulnerability and exposure to disaster risks over about 30 years of transformative socioeconomic changes in China. The disaster highlighted the critical importance of understanding the dynamic nature of vulnerability as well as the need for evolving disaster risk management capacities in close relation with the choices and pathways of development. In addition, the Wenchuan Earthquake also became the first major disaster event in China that had drawn worldwide attention and examination, and highlighted the need to bridge exchange and communication between disaster risk reduction communities in China and internationally. Also in 2008, the spread of the global financial crisis shocked the world. Among its many facets, the global financial crisis exemplified the changing global risk landscape in the age of globalization and an increasingly interconnected world, and highlighted the systematic nature of disaster risk impacts, which has been revealed again with today’s ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Two major scientific endeavors launched at that time provided the enabling conditions for the creation of the journal. One was the establishment of
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