Compound, Cascading, or Complex Disasters: What's in a Name?

Susan L. Cutter

Environment Science and Policy for Sustainable Development · 2018 · 235 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

How should we characterize catastrophic events like the 2011 Tohoku earthquake in Japan, or Hurricane Harvey in Houston, or Hurricanes Irma/Maria in Puerto Rico? Are these singular events? Multihaz...