Community-Based Multi-Hazard Resilience and Eco-DRR: Bridging Geohazard Science and Local Governance

Communities in mountain and coastal settings face interacting hazards that outpace the tools used to manage them. Shifting climate patterns, environmental degradation, and expanding settlements are intensifying risks, particularly where rainfall-triggered landslides, debris flows, and flash floods occur in succession or compound one another. These events raise a practical question: how can risk information become timely, locally relevant action?This Research Topic centres on community-led approaches to multi-hazard risk reduction. It will examine how technical assessments can be combined with participatory monitoring, accessible early-warning communication, ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction (Eco-DRR), and local disaster governance. It also seeks methods and policy frameworks that help communities and institutions protect vulnerable water systems and essential infrastructure while strengthening long-term socio-ecological resilience.Challenges remain in connecting predictive models with local observations, communicating uncertainty, and ensuring that warning systems and mitigation plans reflect local needs, governance arrangements, and capacities. We welcome contributions focused on mountain and coastal settings, with attention to their particular risks and governance contexts.Themes include, but are not limited to:• Community-based early-warning systems and grassroots disaster governance• Eco-DRR and nature-based solutions for slope stability and river basin protection• Participatory monitoring, preparedness, and community response frameworks• Communicating hazard forecasts, uncertainty, and warnings to support local decisions• Governance and policy approaches that connect scientific assessments with local action• Risk mitigation for public infrastructure, water intakes, and small and medium-sized enterprises• Integrating geohazard data and predictive models with community observations• Translating compound and cascading hazard assessments (flash floods, landslides, debris flows, earthquakes) into local planning, warning, and mitigation decisionsArticle types: Original Research, Review, Brief Research Report, and Perspective. Topic editors: Basanta Raj Adhikari, Namita Poudel, Rajib Shaw Source: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/87250/community-based-multi-hazard-resilience-and-eco-drr-bridging-geohazard-science-and-local-governance