Recording Plan: 

Curated Track: 

Sameer Shah, University of Washington

Call For Participation
Interested contributors should share their abstract with Francisca Santana (fsantana@uw.edu) and Sameer Shah (shs89@uw.edu).

Description:

Compounding hazards, both climatic and non-climatic, result in more complex, severe, and unexpected impacts on communities (AghaKouchak et al., 2020; Raymond et al., 2020). While the study of compounding hazards is growing, it primarily focuses on the interactions of physical processes (Zhang et al., 2023), with many assessment approaches quantifying these spatial and temporal risks. This paper session seeks to develop expanded and critical understandings of vulnerability and adaptation to compounding hazards using social science methods. We welcome submissions aimed at exploring the role of human-decision making and lived experiences in the context of compounding hazard contexts. Of particular interest are:
● What do qualitative methods, including diverse and underrepresented approaches such as creative arts-based approaches, multimedia, and community-based participatory research, contribute to the study of compounding hazards?
● What theories or frameworks inspired by, or derived from, the social sciences can help us to better understand human interactions with compounding hazards at different scales?
● How do such approaches inform individual, community, and broader adaptation planning?
● What opportunities exist for mixed-methods and multi-scalar research on compounding hazards?

Bibliography & Related Materials
AghaKouchak, A., Chiang, F., Huning, L. S., Love, C. A., Mallakpour, I., Mazdiyasni, O., et al. (2020). Climate extremes and compound hazards in a warming world. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 48(1), 519-548.
Cutter, S. L. (2018). Compound, cascading, or complex disasters: what's in a name? Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, 60(6), 16-25.
Cutter, S. L. (2021). The changing nature of hazard and disaster risk in the Anthropocene. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 111(3), 819-827.
Pescaroli, G., & Alexander, D. (2018). Understanding compound, interconnected, interacting, and cascading risks: a holistic framework. Risk analysis, 38(11), 2245-2257.
Raymond, C., Horton, R. M., Zscheischler, J., Martius, O., AghaKouchak, A., Balch, J., et al. (2020). Understanding and managing connected extreme events. Nature Climate Change, 10(7), 611-621.
Zhang, S., Wang, B., Zhang, L., Lacasse, S., Nadim, F., & Chen, Y. (2023). Increased human risk caused by cascading hazards–A framework. Science of the Total Environment, 857, 159308.

Non-Presenting Participants