Journal
NATURAL HAZARDS
Volume 111, Issue 2, Pages 2147-2154Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-021-05100-1
Keywords
Disaster; Vulnerability; Exposure; Natural hazard; Risk; Climate change; Preparedness; Public awareness
Funding
- Russian Science Foundation [RSF19-17-00027]
- German Federal Ministry of Education and Research [BMBF FKZ 03G0882A]
- Helmholtz Association [PoFIV-38.04.04]
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This article highlights the challenges of assessing the time-dependent nature of disaster risk, emphasizes the interconnectedness between natural hazards, climate change, vulnerability, and exposure, and underscores the importance of preventive measures and public awareness.
Many nations face challenges in assessing, understanding, and responding to the time-dependent nature of disaster risk. Changes in the intensity of occurrences of extreme events coupled with changes in vulnerability and exposure alter the impacts of natural hazards on society in mostly negative ways. Here an interrelationship between natural hazard (NH), climate change (CC), vulnerability (V), exposure (E), and decisionmaking (DM) is considered. While NHs trigger disasters and CC is likely to intensify occurrences of disasters, V and E present major drivers of disasters. Informed DM on disaster risk reduction should be based on scientific evidence from NH and CC, knowledge of V and E, and relevant options for actions on preventive disaster measures as a part of preparedness and public awareness.
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