An integrative research framework to unravel the interplay of natural hazards and vulnerabilities
Climate change, globalization, urbanization, social isolation, and increased interconnectedness between physical, human, and technological systems pose major challenges to disaster risk reduction. Subsequently, economic losses caused by natural hazards are increasing in many regions of the world, despite scientific progress, persistent policy action, and international cooperation.
This study argues that these dramatic figures call for novel scientific approaches and new types of data collection to integrate the two main approaches that still dominate the science underpinning DRR: the hazard paradigm and the vulnerability paradigm. Building from these two approaches, here the authors propose a research framework that specifies the scope of enquiry, concepts, and general relations among phenomena. The authors then discuss the essential steps to advance systematic empirical research and evidence‐based DRR policy action.
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