《自然災害》致力于自然災害各方面的原始研究工作，包括災難性事件的預測、風險管理以及自然災害和技術災害前兆的性質。雖然災害可以來自不同的來源和系統，例如大氣、水文、海洋、火山、地震、新構造，但環境影響同樣是災難性的。這需要不同的科學和業務學科之間密切合作，以加強減輕危害。涵蓋范圍包括以下類別的危險:大氣、氣候、海洋、風暴潮、海嘯、洪水、雪、雪崩、滑坡、侵蝕、地震、火山、人為和技術，以及風險評估。

Natural Hazards is devoted to original research work on all aspects of natural hazards, including the forecasting of catastrophic events, risk management, and the nature of precursors of natural and technological hazards.Although hazards can originate in different sources and systems, such as atmospheric, hydrologic, oceanographic, volcanologic, seismic, neotectonic, the environmental impacts are equally catastrophic. This warrants a close interaction between different scientific and operational disciplines, aimed at enhancing the mitigation of hazards.Coverage includes such categories of hazard as atmospheric, climatological, oceanographic, storm surges, tsunamis, floods, snow, avalanches, landslides, erosion, earthquakes, volcanoes, man-made and technological, as well as risk assessment.