Editorial: Natural-hazard risk assessment in developing countries

Developing countries are disproportionately affected by natural hazards and lack of coping capacities. 15 This combination sets back progress on poverty alleviation slows long-term development, 16 contributing the aggravation many obstacles already faced these their 17 communities. Probabilistic risk assessment models increasingly popular tools for estimating 18 potential human economic loss due to hazards. Within such a context, modeling 19 developing presents specific challenges in terms quantity quality available input 20 data at all components risk: hazard, exposure, vulnerability. As such, widening types 21 ensuring that contextualized local needs is also crucial 22 may require innovative or, some times, simplified, yet sound, approaches tackle well-23 known deficiencies this context. Some above-mentioned include: (i)