自然灾害致力于对自然灾害各个方面的原始研究工作，包括灾难性事件的预测、风险管理以及自然和技术灾害前体的性质。尽管危险源和系统不同，如大气、水文、海洋学、火山学、地震、新构造，但环境影响同样具有灾难性。这就保证了不同科学和操作学科之间的密切互动，旨在加强对危险的缓解。覆盖范围包括大气、气候学、海洋学、风暴潮、海啸、洪水、雪、雪崩、滑坡、侵蚀、地震、火山、人为和技术等危险类别，以及风险评估。
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.