EGU 2014: Multi-type hazard and risk assessment: Concepts and methodologies

Details of the 2014 EGU multi-type hazard and risk session for you all. Really disappointed I won't be able to attend this year. Once again, Kevin Fleming from the MATRIX project convening the session. Really nice to see this topic being pushed forward. Hope there are some good and relevant presentations for 2014!







NH9.9 Multi-type hazard and risk assessment: Concepts and methodologies

Convener: Kevin Fleming
Co-Conveners: Alexander Garcia-Aristizabal , Nadejda Komendantova

Losses arising from natural hazards are increasing worldwide, and are expected
to continue to do so, often as a result of the increased  exposure and vulnerability
of human society.  Scientists, engineers,  regional and local planners, civil
protection authorities and disaster  managers usually treat natural and
anthropogenic hazards and risks  individually; however, such a framework leads
to the neglect of the  frequent spatial and temporal relationships that exist between
hazards  and their associated risks.  This potentially leads to the situation where
simply summing the individual risks may result in an  underestimation of their true
impact, while identifying the different  types of risk, i.e., direct versus indirect, and
tangible versus  intangible, remains a challenge.  There is therefore an
increasing  realisation that a multi-hazard and risk framework is necessary if 
one is to effectively assess the consequences of natural and  anthropogenic
disasters, and to optimise the available resources for  mitigating against such
events.  Such a framework would need to consider  the various interactions
between different hazard types, and hazards  and risks, while also considering
the different loss types in order to  gain a complete view of how disasters impact
upon the broader society.

This session aims at presenting the latest developments in the area of  multi-type
hazard and risk assessment. The issues of particular concern  are cascade effects,
including the interactions between natural and  NaTech events, uncertainty
propagation and temporal dependency, which  requires examining short-term
sequences where hazards occur almost  simultaneously or are triggered by one
another, to longer-term scenarios  that may cover several months or years.  Case
studies where a  multi-type framework has been applied (for better or for worse) or
could  have been beneficially applied are also of interest.

Landslide scenarios for a large Seattle earthquake: Blog Post Share

A quick share to let you know of a recent post on the Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience Blog about an electronically released paper on landslide scenarios for a large Seattle earthquake. Post here, written by Dave Petley reviews the paper. For access to the paper, click here.

This paper is very close to my research in simulating earthquake-triggered landslide occurrences and the potential damages from them.

9th Multi-Hazards Symposium 2013

The APRU symposium series on Multi-Hazards around the Pacific Rim is having its ninth symposium from 28 to 29 October 2013 at National Taiwan University in Chinese Taipei.

Unfortunately, I have only just become aware of this event so will not be attending. It is unlikely I would have had time at this stage of my PhD to travel there to present in any case.

The 9th APRU symposium is hosted by the Center for Weather Climate and Disaster Research (WCDR) at National Taiwan University. For general information, please refer to the website.

The 9th APRU symposium aims to convene scholars and experts from countries around the Pacific Rim. The inter-disciplinary knowledge on multi-hazard researches can be exchanged and shared through APRU collaboration. The symposium will focus on related topics of multi-hazards induced by extreme weather, earthquake, volcanic activity and haze pollution. Other issues are also included such as advanced monitoring and forecasting techniques, risk assessment, disaster health and emergency management, as well as education on disaster reduction.


Topics:

1.Multi-hazards induced by extreme weather; Multi-hazards induced by earthquake; Multi-hazards induced by volcanic activity; Air pollution and haze related issue

2.Disaster risk assessment and impact analysis; Advanced research on monitoring, sensing, nowcasting and forecasting

3.Disaster management and education; Post-disaster recovery and reconstruction; Disaster health and emergency management