Articles | Volume 24, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-2705-2024
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-2705-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Book review
| 
12 Aug 2024
Book review |
| 12 Aug 2024
| 12 Aug 2024
Book review: Over the seawall: tsunamis, cyclones, drought, and the delusion of controlling nature
Jasper Verschuur
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Department of Engineering Systems and Services, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, Jaffalaan 5, 2628 BX Delft, the Netherlands
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Philip J. Ward, Marleen C. de Ruiter, Kees Boersma, Tomris Cesuroglu, Nathan Clark, Tina Comes, Ashok Dahal, Sonja Fransen, Jasper Verschuur, Carmen Anthonj, Srijith Balakrishnan, Jens de Bruijn, Eefje Hendriks, Rodrigo Mena Fluhmann, Goda Perlaviciute, Linda Steg, Marc van den Homberg, Cees van Westen, Funda Atun, Anja Schreijer, and Nicole van Maanen
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1331, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1331, 2026
This preprint is open for discussion and under review for Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS).
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We explore five core challenges that need to be addressed in order to move towards the Comprehensive Disaster and Climate Risk Management approach. This approach has been proposed within the newly emerging paradigm of a more holistic approach to managing the risks associated with climatic and/or non-climatic hazards and non-climatic risk drivers. We elaborate on each challenge, discuss why they matter for comprehensive disaster risk management, and provide ideas of how to overcome them.
Jasper Verschuur and Srijith Balakrishnan
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-3176, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-3176, 2024
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Electricity systems are prone to climate extremes. Our research combines four years of daily electricity outages data from 370 locations across India with temperature, wind, precipitation and flood inundation data to show how climate extremes affect power services, and how this differs across power systems. This information is key for countries that aim to meet universal access to energy in the coming decades, yet at the same time will experience more frequent and intense climate extremes.
Philip J. Ward, Marleen C. de Ruiter, Kees Boersma, Tomris Cesuroglu, Nathan Clark, Tina Comes, Ashok Dahal, Sonja Fransen, Jasper Verschuur, Carmen Anthonj, Srijith Balakrishnan, Jens de Bruijn, Eefje Hendriks, Rodrigo Mena Fluhmann, Goda Perlaviciute, Linda Steg, Marc van den Homberg, Cees van Westen, Funda Atun, Anja Schreijer, and Nicole van Maanen
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1331, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1331, 2026
This preprint is open for discussion and under review for Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS).
Short summary
Short summary
We explore five core challenges that need to be addressed in order to move towards the Comprehensive Disaster and Climate Risk Management approach. This approach has been proposed within the newly emerging paradigm of a more holistic approach to managing the risks associated with climatic and/or non-climatic hazards and non-climatic risk drivers. We elaborate on each challenge, discuss why they matter for comprehensive disaster risk management, and provide ideas of how to overcome them.
Jasper Verschuur and Srijith Balakrishnan
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-3176, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-3176, 2024
Preprint archived
Short summary
Short summary
Electricity systems are prone to climate extremes. Our research combines four years of daily electricity outages data from 370 locations across India with temperature, wind, precipitation and flood inundation data to show how climate extremes affect power services, and how this differs across power systems. This information is key for countries that aim to meet universal access to energy in the coming decades, yet at the same time will experience more frequent and intense climate extremes.
