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cascading disasters: a standalone construct

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Disaster studies

disasters in which an initial hazard sets off secondary failures, often through critical infrastructure, whose impacts can exceed the first event.

In disaster studies, cascading disasters refers to disasters in which an initial hazard sets off secondary failures, often through critical infrastructure, whose impacts can exceed the first event. This meaning comes from Pescaroli (2016) in Natural Hazards.[1]

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Pescaroli, G., & Alexander, D. (2016). Critical infrastructure, panarchies and the vulnerability paths of cascading disasters. Natural Hazards, 82(1), 175-192. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-016-2186-3

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