Compound, Concurrent, and Cascading Hazards in a Changing Climate: Understanding and Predictability for Enhanced Resilience
Journal: Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk
Climate change is fundamentally altering the landscape of natural hazards, transforming isolated extreme events into complex networks of compound, concurrent, and cascading disasters. Traditional single-hazard frameworks are increasingly inadequate for understanding and managing events where floods follow droughts, heatwaves trigger wildfires, or hurricanes cascade into infrastructure failures and economic disruptio…