2018/02/22 by Giuliano Di Baldassarre, Daniel Nohrstedt, Johanna Mård +15 · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Environmental Science · Engineering · #Disaster Management and Resilience #Flood Risk Assessment and Management #Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis
paper · doi:10.1002/2017ef000764
openalex publication_date 2018/02/22 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/03
Abstract Climate change, globalization, urbanization, social isolation, and increased interconnectedness between physical, human, and technological systems pose major challenges to disaster risk reduction (DRR). Subsequently, economic losses caused by natural hazards are increasing in many regions of the world, despite scientific progress, persistent policy action, and international cooperation. We argue that these dramatic figures call for novel scientific approaches and new types of data collection to integrate the two main approaches that still dominate the science underpinning DRR: the hazard paradigm and the vulnerability paradigm. Building from these two approaches, here we propose a research framework that specifies the scope of enquiry, concepts, and general relations among phenomena. We then discuss the essential steps to advance systematic empirical research and evidence‐based DRR policy action.