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Author: Yasemin Didem Aktas

Publication date: 2019-07-02

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What are Cascading Disasters?

David Alexander, Gianluca Pescaroli (corresponding) (2019)

Cascades have emerged as a new paradigm in disaster studies. The high level of dependency of modern populations on critical infrastructure and networks allows the impact of disasters to propagate through socio- economic systems. Where vulnerabilities overlap and interact, escalationpoints are created which can create secondary effects with greater impact than the primary event. This article explains how complexity can be categorised and analysed in order to find those weak points in society that enable cascading impacts to develop. Scenarios can be used to identify critical dependencies and guide measures designed to increase resilience.Experience suggests that many potential impacts of cascading disasters remain uninvestigated, which provides ample scope for escalation of impacts into complex forms of crisis.

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DOI:: 10.14293/S2199-1006.1.SOR-SOCSCI.AY7VBF.v1.RVBFBS

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ScienceOpen disciplines:	Earth & Environmental sciences, Engineering, Social & Behavioral Sciences
Keywords:	Interdependencies, Scenarios, Built environment, Critical infrastructure, Complex systems, Cascading disasters, The Environment, Policy and law, Cascading effects

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Thank you very much for your revisions, which address all the points previously raised by the reviewers. Please could you kindly revise your references before we proceed with the publication - currently both Pescaroli et al. (2018) and Galbusera et al. (2018) are numbered as 17, and your manuscript doesn't seem to refer to Parisi et al. (2018) (no 24 on your references list). Thanks!

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Gianluca Pescaroli wrote:

Will do thanks!

2019-07-02 10:47 UTC