This short course introduces recent conceptual and operational advances in multi-hazard and multi-risk research. Researchers across all career stages (including ECSs) with backgrounds in Natural Hazards (NH), Climate (CL), Geodynamics (GD), Nonlinear Processes in Geosciences (NP), Geomorphology (GM), Hydrological Sciences (HS), and Geoscience & Society (GS) are welcome to join us to develop their knowledge and skills in untangling multi-hazard disasters and their intriguing dynamics.
Learning from the past to protect the future lies at the heart of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), starting with a proper understanding of what makes a (multi-)hazard event escalate to a disaster. When dealing with consecutive, compounding, or complex hazards, understanding the dynamics of hazards, impacts, exposure, and vulnerability, and the ways mitigation fits into this interplay is key. Recent years have provided substantial advances on precisely these dynamics, and a growing set of EGU sessions has been carrying them to the wider research community and to stakeholders.
Through a mix of short talks, exercises, and open discussion, we will distil these advances into accessible entry points and learning objectives addressing:
Multi-hazard interaction mechanisms;
Multi-hazard impacts and recovery dynamics;
Vulnerability dynamics;
Multi-risk assessment;
From these, we set out a short research agenda focusing on the gaps open in multi-hazard and multi-risk research. The course ends with an open discussion on this agenda, where participants can identify questions to take forward as new PhD and general research topics. We will also provide an interactive, curated reading list on the covered topics.
For the convening team, this course is our way of giving back to the EGU community that supported us: sharing both the science and the lessons learned working in DRR.