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We would like to express our sincere thanks to the management and Editorial Board of Natural Hazards, including Thomas Glade who served as the Coordinating Editor, as well as Shobana Ramesh, Sridhar Bhavani and the entire of the team from the Editorial Office of Springer. Moreover, we would like to acknowledge the efforts of all the reviewers who supported this special issue with their knowledge on different aspects of integrated disaster risk management and their constructive criticism that helped us and the authors to further develop the individual argumentations in the papers. We would also like to thank all the colleagues who contributed to this special issue, above all for their patience during the process of manuscript production and revision.

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  2. Institute of Mountain Risk Engineering, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria

    Sven Fuchs

  3. Austrian Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management, Vienna, Austria

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Aubrecht, C., Fuchs, S. & Neuhold, C. Spatio-temporal aspects and dimensions in integrated disaster risk management. Nat Hazards 68, 1205–1216 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-013-0619-9

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