Plastic debris in rivers

T van Emmerik, A Schwarz - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Plastic pollution in aquatic ecosystems is an emerging environmental risk, as it may
negatively impacts ecology, endangers aquatic species, and causes economic damage …

Implementing the “Sustainable Development Goals”: towards addressing three key governance challenges—collective action, trade-offs, and accountability

KJ Bowen, NA Cradock-Henry, F Koch… - Current opinion in …, 2017 - Elsevier
Highlights•Three governance challenges to implementing the SDGs are identified and
discussed.•Collective action across sectors, levels and scales will be required.•Win–wins …

[HTML][HTML] Natural hazard risk assessments at the global scale

PJ Ward, V Blauhut, N Bloemendaal… - … Hazards and Earth …, 2020 - nhess.copernicus.org
Since 1990, natural hazards have led to over 1.6 million fatalities globally, and economic
losses are estimated at an average of around USD 260–310 billion per year. The scientific …

Why we can no longer ignore consecutive disasters

MC De Ruiter, A Couasnon… - Earth's …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In recent decades, a striking number of countries have suffered from consecutive disasters:
events whose impacts overlap both spatially and temporally, while recovery is still under …

The nexus between water, energy, and food in the context of the global risks: An analysis of the interactions between food, water, and energy security

WS De Amorim, IB Valduga, JMP Ribeiro… - Environmental Impact …, 2018 - Elsevier
The purpose of this article is to analyze the interactions between water, energy, and food
security, referenced in this study as the nexus between water, energy, and food, and the …

Compound, cascading, or complex disasters: what's in a name?

SL Cutter - Environment: science and policy for sustainable …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
16 ENVIRONMENT WWW. TANDFONLINE. COM/VENV VOLUME 60 NUMBER 6 iStoc
k/Karl Spencer events all refer to these types of situations where there is a single triggering …

Reflections on a science and technology agenda for 21st century disaster risk reduction: Based on the scientific content of the 2016 UNISDR science and technology …

A Aitsi-Selmi, V Murray, C Wannous… - International Journal of …, 2016 - Springer
The first international conference for the post-2015 United Nations landmark agreements
(Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030, Sustainable Development …

An adaptive robust framework for the optimization of the resilience of interdependent infrastructures under natural hazards

YP Fang, E Zio - European Journal of Operational Research, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a novel adaptive robust optimization (ARO)-based mathematical
framework for resilience enhancement of interdependent critical infrastructure (CI) systems …

ISC-UNDRR-RISK KAN Briefing note on systemic risk

J Sillmann, I Christensen, S Hochrainer-Stigler… - 2022 - pure.iiasa.ac.at
Systemic risk is associated with cascading impacts that spread within and across systems
and sectors (eg ecosystems, health, infrastructure and the food sector) via the movements of …

The social construction of disaster risk: Seeking root causes

A Oliver-Smith, I Alcántara-Ayala… - … journal of disaster …, 2017 - ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
Over the past 50 years, scientific understanding of hazards and the potentially dangerous
physical events they precede has grown substantially. This knowledge covers natural, socio …