(Consecutive) Disasters

Definition

Two or more disasters that occur in succession, and whose direct impacts overlap spatially before recovery from a previous event is completed.

Source

de Ruiter, M.C., Couasnon, A., van den Homberg, M.J., Daniell, J.E., Gill, J.C., & Ward, P.J. (2020). Why we can no longer ignore consecutive disasters. Earth's future, 8(3), e2019EF001425

See also: Disaster

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