NH23A:
Compound and Cascading Events: An Emerging Challenge for Natural Hazard Risk Assessment and Management


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Session ID#: 62911

Session Description:
This session focuses on compound and cascading events, and their impacts on natural hazard risk. Such events – caused by the interaction of multiple hazard drivers in space or time – have a multiplier effect on the risk to society, infrastructure, and the environment. However, they have been largely overlooked in disaster risk science and policy. Recently, they were identified as an important challenge by the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) ‘Grand Challenge’ on Extremes.

Therefore, this session aims to provide a platform for showcasing current state-of-the-art and recent research findings on compound, cascading, and concurrent events; and foster broader exchange of knowledge between scientists and practitioners across different natural hazards.

We encourage contributions related to all aspects of compound, cascading, and concurrent events, including those that: improve understanding of physical processes; showcase new methodologies, techniques and statistical approaches; and illustrate how including multiple interacting hazards improves risk assessments.

Primary Convener:  Philip Ward, Free University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands; IVM - VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Conveners:  Antonia Sebastian, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Earth, Marine, and Environmental Sciences, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, Thomas Wahl, University of Central Florida, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering & National Center for Integrated Coastal Research, Orlando, FL, United States and Jakob Zscheischler, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Primary Liaison:  Philip Ward, IVM - VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Free University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Chairs:  Philip Ward, IVM - VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands and Antonia Sebastian, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Earth, Marine, and Environmental Sciences, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Philip Ward, IVM - VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Co-Organized with:
Natural Hazards, and Hydrology

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • H - Hydrology
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
  • S - Seismology

Proposed Co-Organized Session with:
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:

4306 Multihazards [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4313 Extreme events [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4328 Risk [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4333 Disaster risk analysis and assessment [NATURAL HAZARDS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

The Effect of Local Runoff from Concurrent Rainfall Events with Storm Surge on Hydrodynamics and Land Inundation (413395)
Amin Kiaghadi, University of Houston, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, TX, United States and Hanadi S Rifai, Univ of Houston, Houston, United States
An impact-based assessment of riverine flooding from compound events at the global scale (392729)
Dirk Eilander1, Hiroaki Ikeuchi2, Sanne Muis3, Anais Couasnon4, Dai Yamazaki5, Hessel Winsemius4 and Philip Ward6, (1)Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Amsterdam, Netherlands, (2)the University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Engineering, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, (3)Free University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, (4)Deltares, Delft, Netherlands, (5)University of Tokyo, Institute of Industrial Science, Tokyo, Japan, (6)IVM - VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Understanding the impacts of compound and cascading event on water resources management. Invited Paper 407719 (Invited) (407719)
Kathleen D White, US Army Corps of Engineers,, Institute for Water Resources, Washington, DC, United States, Thomas Wahl, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering & National Center for Integrated Coastal Research, University of Central Florida, Orlando, United States, Ariane O Pinson, US Army Corps of Engineers, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, Champaign, United States, Will Veatch, US Army Corps of Engineers, Headquarters, Jacksonville, United States and Gabriele Villarini, Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering & High Meadows Environmental Institute, Princeton, NJ, United States
Compound Events: Detection, Modeling and Risk Analysis (Invited) (357228)
Amir AghaKouchak, University of California, Irvine, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, United States
How Do Consecutive Disasters Affect Damages and the Post-Disaster Recovery Process? (362869)
Marleen Carolijn de Ruiter, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Amsterdam, Netherlands, Anais Couasnon, Deltares, Delft, Netherlands, Marc van den Homberg, Red Cross 510 Global Office, Data Team, 's Gravenhage, Netherlands, Philip Ward, IVM - VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands and James E Daniell, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Geophysical Institute, Karlsruhe, Germany
'Fire Following' and the Power of Systemic Correlation in Risk Modeling (391785)
Robert Muir-Wood, Risk Management Solutions, London, United Kingdom

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