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creators_name: Mignan, A.
creators_name: Komendantova, N.
creators_name: Scolobig, A.
creators_name: Fleming, K.
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creators_orcid: 0000-0003-2568-6179
title: Chapter 14: Multi-Risk Assessment and Governance
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divisions: prog_risk
divisions: prog_rpv
keywords: Multi-hazard; multi-risk assessment; multi-risk governance; extreme event; cascade; GenMR; communication; civil protection stakeholder; decision-making
abstract: Multi-risk assessment involves the inclusion of hazard and risk interactions within the modeling of the disaster risk chain. These interactions include more than one disastrous event at the same time, cascading events, and how changes in exposure and vulnerability arise over time, including as a result of previous events. At a first glance, multi-risk assessment appears to be a better means of approaching disaster risk reduction actions. However, it is hindered by a lack of knowledge about the fundamental physical processes involved, difficulties in comparing hazards and risks of different types and, especially, the topic of this chapter, barriers within risk governance for the successful implementation of necessary risk mitigation actions. Such barriers include a lack of standardization in terminology, a deficiency in expertise in the range of disciplines that are relevant to multi-risk reduction planning, inadequate resources, and biases and barriers in communication between the relevant public and private actors, as well as between researchers and policy-makers. This chapter details some of the social, institutional and scientific barriers that are associated with the full consideration of multi-risk governance, and provides some suggestions as to how these may be overcome.
date: 2017-08
date_type: published
publisher: World Scientific Press & Imperial College Press
id_number: 10.1142/9789813207950_0014
creators_browse_id: 161
full_text_status: none
place_of_pub: London
pagerange: 357-381
refereed: TRUE
isbn: 978-981-3207-95-0
book_title: Handbook of Disaster Risk Reduction & Management
editors_name: Madu, C.
editors_name: Kuei, C.
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citation:   Mignan, A., Komendantova, N. <https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/view/iiasa/161.html> ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2568-6179 <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2568-6179>, Scolobig, A., & Fleming, K.  (2017).  Chapter 14: Multi-Risk Assessment and Governance.    In:  Handbook of Disaster Risk Reduction & Management. Eds. Madu, C. & Kuei, C., pp. 357-381 London: World Scientific Press & Imperial College Press.  ISBN 978-981-3207-95-0 10.1142/9789813207950_0014 <https://doi.org/10.1142/9789813207950_0014>.