In recent decades, a striking number of countries have suffered from consecutive disasters:
events whose impacts overlap both spatially and temporally, while recovery is still under …

This paper presents a broad overview, characterization, and visualization of the interaction
relationships between 21 natural hazards, drawn from six hazard groups (geophysical …

Involvement in disaster by international, national and academic institutions has led to a
number of implicit and explicit definitions of disaster. Several major sources of data provide …

This paper aims to provide a five-step conceptual framework to analyze the impacts to the
built environment from multi-hazard interactions. Our methodology includes a critical …

The superficial features of the dominant view are not hard to discern, though it requires
specialised, lengthy training to contribute to them. There is generally a straightforward …

Disasters kill, maim, and generate increasingly large economic losses. But they do not
wreak their damage equally across populations, and every disaster has social dimensions at …

Globally and yearly, individual hazards and hazard interrelations have the potential to result
in socio-economic losses. Here, in this critical review, we use grey-and peer-review …

Many areas of the world are prone to several natural hazards, and effective risk reduction is
only possible if all relevant threats are considered and analyzed. However, in contrast to …

There is considerable research interest on the meaning and measurement of resilience from
a variety of research perspectives including those from the hazards/disasters and global …

For over 50 years, hazards researchers have focused on a series of fundamental ques-tions:
1) what is the human occupancy of hazard zones? 2) How do people and societies respond …