Abstract
Whilst the last decades have seen a clear shift in emphasis from managing natural hazards to managing risk, the majority of natural-hazard risk research still focuses on single hazards. Internationally, there are calls for more attention for multi-hazards and multi-risks. Within the European Union (EU), the concepts of multi-hazard and multi-risk assessment and management have taken centre stage in recent years. In this perspective paper, we outline several key developments in multi-(hazard-)risk research in the last decade, with a particular focus on the EU. We present challenges for multi-(hazard-)risk management as outlined in several research projects and papers. We then present a research agenda for addressing these challenges. We argue for an approach that addresses multi-(hazard-)risk management through the lens of sustainability challenges that cut across sectors, regions, and hazards. In this approach, the starting point is a specific sustainability challenge, rather than an individual hazard or sector, and trade-offs and synergies are examined across sectors, regions, and hazards. We argue for in-depth case studies in which various approaches for multi-(hazard-)risk management are co-developed and tested in practice. Finally, we present a new pan-European research project in which our proposed research agenda will be implemented, with the goal of enabling stakeholders to develop forward-looking disaster risk management pathways that assess trade-offs and synergies of various strategies across sectors, hazards, and spatial scales.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1487-1497 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences |
Volume | 22 |
Issue number | 4 |
Early online date | 26 Apr 2022 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2022 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Acknowledgements. MYRIAD-EU received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no. 101003276). The work reflects only the author’s view and that the agency is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains. Philip J. Ward, Anaïs Couasnon, and Timothy Tiggeloven also received funding from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) in the form of a Vidi grant (no. 016.161.324). Melanie Duncan, Roxana Ciurean, and Joel Gill publish with permission of the executive director of the British Geological Survey (UK Research and Innovation, UKRI).
Funding Information:
Financial support. This research has been supported by the Euro-
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