Pescaroli, Gianluca;
Alexander, David E;
(2024)
Cascading risk.
In: Gill, Duane A and Ritchie, Liesel A and Campbell, Nnenia M, (eds.)
Encyclopedia of Technological Hazards and Disasters in the Social Sciences.
(pp. 93-96).
Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, UK.
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Abstract
Cascading risk is a disaster escalation process that occurs when interconnected risks accumulate and interact, leading to the manifestation of vulnerabilities at different scales, including socio-technological drivers. It became more relevant in the field of critical infrastructure protection and resilience from the early 2000s and gradually acquired a broader cross-disciplinary use in disaster risk reduction from the mid-2010s. Cascading risk is associated broadly with the fields of disaster risk reduction, emergency management, and climate change adaptation, where better resilience strategies are needed across sectors to tackle low probability high impact events.
| Type: | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Title: | Cascading risk |
| ISBN-13: | 9781800882195 |
| DOI: | 10.4337/9781800882201.ch16 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800882201.ch16 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Resilience; Climate change adaptation; Critical infrastructure; Normal accident theory; Winter Storm Uri |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10200822 |
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