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Natural Hazards

Christopher J. White

Director of the Centre for Water, Environment, Sustainability and Public Health in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Strathclyde. Chris is a Professor in Climate Extremes & Resilience and lead the Engineering for Extremes team. He is a hydro-meteorologist, specialising in multi- hazards and risks, hydro-meteorological predictions, impact-based forecasting, and climate risk assessment.

Multi-Risk Forecasting: Operational Reality or Scientific Ambition?

Reflections from a workshop on multi-risk impact-based forecasting and warning systems for weather-related hazards.

  Reflections from a workshop on multi-risk impact-based forecasting and warning systems for weather-related hazards.   With mounting evidence that hazards rarely occur in isolation, the question is no longer whether multi-risk impact-based forecasting and warning systems are needed, but how to build them [1]. Yet, moving beyond single-hazard thinking towards genuinely multi-hazard and t ...[Read More]