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

2018/10/26 by Susan L. Cutter · 7 citations
Health Professions · #Disaster Response and Management

paper · doi:10.1080/00139157.2018.1517518

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...

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