NHESS, the Journal of the EGU Natural Hazards Division

NHESS was conceived around the year 2000 within the Natural Hazards Interdisciplinary Working Group of the European Geophysical Society, at a time when interdisciplinary research on natural hazards had few dedicated publication outlets. Established to provide a shared forum for genuinely multidisciplinary scholarship, NHESS has played a pioneering role in bringing together physical, environmental, and socio-economic perspectives on hazards, risk, and their impacts. First published in 2001, shortly before the formation of the EGU, the journal has grown from its early issues into one of the leading international journals on hazards and risk, reflecting both the expanding scope of the field and the enduring success of the EGU’s community-driven, open-access publishing model.

The journal's ambition is to embrace a holistic Earth system science approach, encompassing the processes, physics and statistics of a wide range of natural and human-induced hazards, their monitoring and modelling, associated impacts, and the role of adaptation and mitigation strategies. While engineering-focused studies are outside the journal’s scope, NHESS actively welcomes contributions addressing socio-economic, governance and management aspects of disasters. 

The journal serves a broad and diverse community of research scientists, practitioners and decision-makers. In addition to original research articles presenting substantial and original scientific advances, NHESS publishes review articles that can contribute to the EGU encyclopedia of geosciences. By invitation, perspectives articles may also be published to stimulate an open and constructive debate, based on the authors’ (critical) observations or research suggestions, and grounded in sound arguments, facts, published research studies, or real-life examples. NHESS further supports setting up thematic special issues proposed by selected guest editors, and curated special collections.

The session will provide insights for current and prospective authors, reviewers, and editors into the journal’s editorial scope, publication formats, and interactive peer-review process. Participants are warmly invited to engage in discussion, ask questions, share ideas, and explore ways to contribute to and help shape the future of NHESS within the EGU publishing landscape.