The collection of articles includes the proceedings of reports submitted to the International Scientifically-Practical Conference of Problems of Decrease of Natural Hazards and Risks «GEORISK-2012» held in Moscow, October 18-19, 2012. The reports deal with the following topics: methods of research, forecast and mapping of natural and human-induced hazards; assessment of vulnerability and losses caused by natural hazards, theory and practice of quantitative assessment of natural risks; risk regulation in normative documents: natural risk management; assessment of risk to environment and human health.

Intended for governmental bodies, insurance companies, builders, designers, surveyors and researches engaged in the problems of prediction, assessment and management of natural and technological risk.