"Progress in landslide hazard and risk evaluation" Preface

The special issue of Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences entitled "Progress in landslide hazard and risk evaluation" contains 9 out of more than 30 oral and poster contributions originally presented in the " NH3.11 Landslide hazard and risk assessment, and landslide management " session held at the General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union, in Vienna (Austria), on 22-27 April 2012.