What is it about?
Editorial of the Special Issue "Understanding and mitigating cascading crises in the global interconnected system" published in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
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Why is it important?
The Special Issue integrates those emerging aspects with an operational approach that considers cascades as the complex, non-linear escalation of secondary emergencies. Key topics addressed by the contributions include cross-domain modelling of interdependent systems; decision support systems; economic impact assessment of critical events; and cascades in the built environment, in social domains, and in applied emergency management. Our conclusions support the work of academia, and of public and private stakeholders, by providing a comprehensive analysis of the topic for the improvement of theory, the assessment of resilience, the formulation of policies for managing crises, and operational planning for emergencies.
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For the future, a better integration between scientific and social domains is necessary to deal with the challenges posed by a fast-changing society.
Dr Michael Nones
Institute of Geophysics - Polish Academy of Sciences
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This page is a summary of: Understanding and mitigating cascading crises in the global interconnected system, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, July 2018, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2018.07.004.
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