How can sustainable urban development practices reduce flood risk and other hazards?

Some phenomena that produce natural disasters may be caused by a combination of several different forces. For example, landslides (the movement of large masses ... How do natural hazards cascade to cause disasters? Nature. 2018 Sep;561(7724):458-460. doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-06783-6. Sep 3, 2020 ... According to MunichRe, 820 natural disasters causing insured losses occured in 2019. There are a number of factors at play, ... Sep 21, 2015 ... Many of the causes of natural disasters are political and social in origin. The hazard is the driver of the event, but the vulnerability – the way humans put ... Feb 8, 2022 ... Climate change is increasingly seen as the cause of natural catastrophes, from floods to famines. But a growing number of scientists are ... Bill Schulz, USGS Research Geologist, takes photographs of Puerto Rican hillsides from a U.S. Army helicopter to document landslides caused by Hurricane Maria. The true root causes of natural disasters lie within the power systems at play in any given society when these regions come into contact with a hazard event. I knew some general trends in historical changes in scientists' ideas about the causes of natural disasters, but I possessed only the most global ... Oct 10, 2020 ... John Smith, December 21, 2020, Death by head trauma caused by falling debris from a collapsing building over a 9.6 Earthwake on Los Angeles. Jun 27, 2017 ... The root causes of the disaster were social, in particular widespread poverty, conflict-induced migration and problematic land-use practices.