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Darren Lumbroso

Dr Darren Lumbroso is a Technical Director in the Water and Climate Division at HR Wallingford. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, with 35 years’ experience working on research and consultancy projects related to flood risk management, early warning systems, disaster risk reduction, and climate change adaptation. He has delivered projects in 50 countries worldwide, from Antigua to Zimbabwe. He is an editor for the Journal of Flood Risk Management and has published around 30 peer reviewed papers on a range of subjects.

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]