A review of interacting natural hazards and cascading impacts in Scotland
Published: 20 June 2022
This report provides an overview for Scotland of the nascent research field of compound events and cascading impacts. It provides conclusions concerning how these events and impacts have and may affect Scotland with climate change in the coming decades.
'Weather-driven interacting natural hazards (referred to as ‘multi-hazards’ or ‘compound events’) cause significant disruption and damage to environmental and human systems in Scotland every year. Commonly, natural hazards are considered individually; however, natural hazards often arise from a combination of contributing, interacting physical processes. Failure to consider the multiple causes and drivers behind an event and the associated cascading impacts can lead to an underestimation of risk. Due to our changing climate, it is expected that many weather-related hazards will increase in intensity, occur more widely and more often than before, thereby increasing exposure to emerging hazards.'
The full report is available here.
And a summary can be found in our blog.
First published: 20 June 2022