MEDiate: A generalised framework for the assessment of current and future multi-hazard interactions: Deliverable D2.1

The MEDiate project aims to develop a decision support system for disaster risk management by considering multiple interacting natural hazards and cascading impacts, It will use a novel resilience-informed, service oriented and, people-centred approach that accounts for forecasted modifications in the hazard (e.g. climate change), vulnerability/resilience (e.g. aging structures and populations) and exposure (e.g. population decrease/increase), building on the consortium’s existing strengths in this domain. This will be undertaken and developed through a number of work packages (WP).

This is the first deliverable of WP2 of the MEDiate project. The purpose of this deliverable is, firstly, to review approaches proposed in the literature to model and assess multi-hazard interactions and cascading impacts. The second objective is to use this review to propose a framework to analyse multi-hazard interactions and cascading impacts under current and future climate change scenarios for use in the MEDiate project. This deliverable assists in defining the research that will be taken forward through Tasks 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4.