Natural hazards, including multi-hazards, compound events and connected extremes, can put pressure on industrial facilities and critical infrastructure systems beyond their design specifications. Natural-hazard triggered technological (natech) accidents or disruptions can lead to disastrous consequences and may have far-reaching impacts beyond the directly affected area. Especially in the light of ongoing climate change, urbanization, industrialization, and an ever-increasing interconnected society, it is crucial to understand and incorporate such effects into planning and systemic risk assessments as well as to prepare for extreme events and worst-case scenarios.
This session aims to increase our understanding, modelling and management capabilities of the risk of natech accidents and infrastructure failures with potentially severe societal, economic, or environmental impacts. We invite contributions considering all aspects related to such risks, including but not limited to the topics described below:
* Methods for improving our understanding and monitoring capabilities, exposure and vulnerability of critical entities to (multiple) natural hazards.
* Data collection/database development and mapping of hazards, exposure and vulnerability of critical entities
* Collecting and analyzing empirical data of past events/disruptions to inform, validate and improve risk modelling.
* Methods for assessing and modelling natural hazard triggered accidents and disruptions
* Methods for assessing and modelling direct, indirect, tangible, intangible or systemic impacts of natural hazard triggered accidents or disruptions including complex, compounding and cascading effects
* Methods for improved impact forecasting capability and scenario building for enhanced stress testing of critical entities
* Methods for improved cross-discipline, cross-sector and cross-boundary disaster risk management and governance
* Methods to enhance understanding and knowledge and situational awareness of disaster-related risks by citizens