Ten expert views on the COVID-19 pandemic

摘要: The COVID-19 pandemic poses severe challenges to many societies and affects the daily life of people worldwide for the foreseeable future. This editorial introduces a collection of ten short pieces written by experts and researchers from several European countries. The authors belong to a research consortium which aims to develop methods for making societies more resilient to disasters and crises and which started its joint activities before the COVID-19 pandemic evolved. The collection starts with two papers that are particularly suitable for setting the frame—from individual citizens to authorities and policy-makers, from individual experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic to professional crisis management, from short-term actions to long-term preparedness: The paper of Panagiotis V. Katsikopoulos, an expert in civil protection, highlights the particular characteristics of pandemic disasters compared to other types of …