The varied effects of recent extreme weather events around the world exemplify the uneven
impacts of climate change on populations, even within relatively small geographic regions …

Abstract Critical Infrastructure Protection is a relatively new scientific domain stemming from
an American Presidential directive PDD-63 of May 1998. Critical Infrastructure (CI) …

The July 2021 flood in central Europe was one of the five costliest disasters in Europe in the
last half century, with an estimated total damage of EUR 32 billion. The aim of this study is to …

In recent years, there has been a gradual increase in research literature on the challenges
of interconnected, compound, interacting, and cascading risks. These concepts are …

Cascading effects and cascading disasters are emerging fields of scientific research. The
widespread diffusion of functional networks increases the complexity of interdependent …

 e consequences of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake persuaded the global community to
consider more realistically the problem of” cascading disasters”. Since then, the concept has …

Critical infrastructure systems are becoming increasingly interdependent, which can
exacerbate the impacts of disruptive events through cascading failures, hindered asset …

The urban environment is very concerned by network failures. These failures are
propagating risks in area generally considered as non-vulnerable. There are various causes …

During the last decades, input-output (I/O) economic models have assumed a prominent role
in disaster impact analysis and resilience assessment. Rooted in general equilibrium theory …

Heavy precipitation over western Germany and neighboring countries in July 2021 led to
widespread floods, with the Ahr and Erft river catchments being particularly affected …