Managing vulnerabilities to multiple water hazards in Sweden

The HydroHazards project (2020-2024) investigates the risks and cascading effects of multiple hydro-meteorological hazards on Sweden's Critical Societal Services and Infrastructure (CSSIs) and populations. The project employs an interdisciplinary approach across three work packages to identify hazard hotspots, assess differentiated vulnerabilities among social groups, and develop future risk scenarios to improve Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) policies.

• Current risk analyses typically focus on single events and fail to account for the interconnected web of impacts from multiple hazards, which is problematic as dependency on and vulnerability of Critical Societal Services and Infrastructure (CSSIs) increases.
• The combination of two moderate water hazards can result in significantly worse outcomes than a single severe hazard, necessitating studies that move beyond single hazard assessments.
• Sweden has few historical records of water-related disasters because hazards have traditionally only been classified as disasters if they caused deaths or severe economic losses.
• Multiple hydrometeorological hazards in Sweden primarily originate from coastal surges, small scale cloudbursts, heavy and persistent large-scale rainfall, and peak river flow and snowmelt.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2020). Managing vulnerabilities to multiple water hazards in Sweden. https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/factsheet-hydrohazards.pdf

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Managing vulnerabilities to multiple water hazards in Sweden. 2020. https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/factsheet-hydrohazards.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2020managing, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Managing vulnerabilities to multiple water hazards in Sweden}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2020}, month = mar, url = {https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/factsheet-hydrohazards.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }