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The “What are Cascading Disasters?” is a comprehensive summary of why the disaster risk and resilience research-base and practice need to shift their attention from a single event to interacting, interdependent multi-hazards. The article briefly explains why this paradigm shift is needed and its implications, with a diverse set of examples, and from technical, technological, historical, philosophical and finally political angles. This short piece fully convinces the reader of the importance of the topic, and inspires further reading. It has been a pleasure to read it and I strongly recommend its publication at UCL Environment.
My only quite minor comment regards Figure 1, which I believe was originally used elsewhere: please can the authors explain the paths (a) and (b)? Again, perhaps a rather petty point: Line 115 suggests the manuscript was drafted by a single author, while there are two?