Asynergies

Definition

Potentially unwanted effects of measures that reduce the impacts of disasters across different hazards.

Traditionally, those measures are aimed at decreasing the risk a building faces of a single hazard type despite their potential of having unwanted effects on other hazard types. For example, building on stilts is an often-used measure to decrease a building's flood vulnerability, however, it simultaneously increases a building's earthquake vulnerability

Source

de Ruiter, M. C., de Bruijn, J. A., Englhardt, J., Daniell, J. E., de Moel, H., & Ward, P. J. (2021). The asynergies of structural disaster risk reduction measures: Comparing floods and earthquakes. Earth's Future, 9(1), e2020EF001531.

Available at: https://doi.org/10.1029/2020EF001531

See also: Disaster Risk Reduction

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