Blog: Preventing a Covid-19 cascading flood disaster
We have just come off the back of one of the worst winters for flooding in living memory. What would have happened had the Covid-19 pandemic started here three months ago? With the spread of Covid-19 accelerating, there is growing risk of a cascading hazard should there be a major natural hazard, as organisations are already stretched writes Dr Avi Baruch, chief operating officer at Previsico.
“Cascading disasters” are classified events where a hazard triggers subsequent events which result further in disruption. For example, following the wildfires in Australia, we saw an increase in flash
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