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RDR - Department of Risk & Disaster Reduction

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Our research group developed along with the activities of the Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction. The research on cascading crises was boosted in spring 2014, with our participation in a pan-European, multi-partner, EC project - FORTRESS.

In 2015 IRDR hosted two events; the IRDR Spring Academy and a bilateral workshop with the Center for Natural Disaster Science in Sweden. At these events we started to coordinate early attempts at cross-disciplinary collaboration on the topic of cascading, including social scientists, physicists, engineers, statisticians and geologists.

From 2016, we aim to strengthen and improve this dialogue, leaving it open to the participation of new disciplines and subjects. To have an overview of what has been done up to now, please refer to the annual reports of the Institute.