About this journal

Georisk covers many diversified but interlinked areas of active research and practice, such as geohazards (earthquakes, landslides, avalanches, rockfalls, tsunamis, etc.), safety of engineered systems (dams, buildings, offshore structures, lifelines, etc.), environmental risk, seismic risk, reliability-based design and code calibration, geostatistics, decision analyses, structural reliability, maintenance and life cycle performance, risk and vulnerability, hazard mapping, loss assessment (economic, social, environmental, etc.), GIS databases, remote sensing, and many other related disciplines.

The underlying theme is that uncertainties associated with geomaterials (soils, rocks), geologic processes, and possible subsequent treatments, are usually large and complex and these uncertainties play an indispensable role in the risk assessment and management of engineered and natural systems. Significant theoretical and practical challenges remain on quantifying these uncertainties and developing defensible risk management methodologies that are acceptable to decision makers and stakeholders. Many opportunities to leverage on the rapid advancement in Bayesian analysis, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and other data-driven methods also exist, which can greatly enhance our decision-making abilities.

The basic goal of this international peer-reviewed journal is to provide a multi-disciplinary scientific forum for cross fertilization of ideas between interested parties working on various aspects of georisk to advance the state-of-the-art and the state-of-the-practice. Besides acting as a focused forum and promoting integration between disciplines, other key features of this journal include:

1. Fostering dissemination of information between research and practice.
2. Encouraging practice-oriented papers.
3. Encouraging papers reporting actual statistics with supporting databases.
4. Encouraging papers developing modern data-driven methods that can derive deep insights from real-world multivariate, incomplete, and uncertain data.
5. Including occasional educational papers that would enhance the knowledge and understanding of the non-specialist.
6. Including cross-disciplinary papers that enhance the social and behavioral dimensions in risk dialogue between scientists, policy makers, and the public for improving risk communications and promoting a more balanced risk debate in general.

In consultation with the editors, distinguished members of the georisk community may be invited to serve as guest editors covering focused themes such as natural hazards, dam safety, offshore safety, seismic risk, environmental risk, reliability-based design, geostatistics and probabilistic site characterization, probabilistic finite element methods, case histories, GIS databases, machine learning, and other related topics.

The following types of manuscripts are welcome:

• Reviews,
• Original Articles,
• Technical Notes,
• Discussions,
• Conference Reports,
• Event Announcements,
• Georisk Letters, and
• Special Issue Articles

All published research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymous refereeing by independent expert referees.

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Editor-in-Chief:
Limin Zhang – Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China

Honorary Editor:
Suzanne Lacasse - Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Oslo, Norway

Managing Editors:
Jianye Ching – National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Gordon Fenton - Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

Abdul-Hamid Soubra - University of Nantes, Saint-Nazaire, France

Advisory Board:
Herbert Einstein - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
Yusuke Honjo - Gifu University, Gifu, Japan
Farrokh Nadim - Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Norway

Kok-Kwang Phoon - Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore

Erik Vanmarcke - Princeton University, Princeton, USA

Editorial Board:
Christoph Aubrecht - European Space Agency (ESA) & World Bank, USA
Michele Calvello - University of Salerno, Italy
Zijun Cao - Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
Yifei Cui - Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Jia-Jyun Dong - National Central University, Taiwan
Sebnem Düzgün - Colorado School of Mines, USA
Gennaro Esposito - Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
Liang Gao - Univerisity of Macau, China
Robert Gilbert - University of Texas, Austin, USA
Thomas Glade - University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
D. V. Griffiths - Colorado School of Mines, Golden, USA
Michael Hicks - Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
Ken Ho - Geotechnical Engineering Office, Civil Engineering & Development Department, Hong Kong, China
Kaare Hoeg - Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Oslo, Norway
Hongwei Huang - Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Jinsong Huang - University of Newcastle, Australia
Run-Qiu Huang - Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, China
Rafael Jimenez - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
C. Hsein Juang - Clemson University, Clemson, USA
Hyun-Ki Kim - Kookmin University, Seoul, South Korea
Tim Länsivaara - Tampere University, Finland
Eric Leroi - URBATER, Pau, France
Dianqing Li - Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
Lisa, Jinhui Li - Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China
Robert Y. Liang - University of Dayton, USA
Zenon Medina-Cetina - Texas A&M University, College Station, USA

Wojciech Pula - Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland
Timo Schweckendiek - Deltares & Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Mohamed Shahin - Curtin University, Bentley, Australia
Masahiro Shirato - National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management, Tsukuba, Japan
G. L. Sivakumar Babu - Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Kenichi Soga - University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Johan Spross - KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Armin W. Stuedlein - Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA

Daniel Straub - Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
Huiming Tang - China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China
Giovanna Vessia - D'Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy
Jui-Pin Wang - Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Yu Wang - City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Zhenyu Yin - The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
Gil Lim Yoon - Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology, Ansan, South Korea
Jie Zhang - Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Shijin Feng - Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Early Career Editorial Board:

Marcin Chwala - Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland

Diego Di Curzio - University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara, Italy

Lin Wang - Chongqing University, China

Tengyuan Zhao - Xi’an Jiaotong University, China

Founding Editor:
Kok-Kwang Phoon - Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore

Editorial Office:
Zijun Cao - Assistant Editor

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