Att hantera sårbarhet inför hydrometeorologiska naturhändelser i Sverige

This fact sheet describes the HydroHazards project, a five-year interdisciplinary study (2020–2024) funded by MSB and FORMAS. The project focuses on managing vulnerabilities to multiple hydrometeorological natural hazards in Sweden, specifically examining how simultaneous, cascading, or cumulative water-related events impact critical infrastructure, essential services, and the population.

• Traditional risk analyses often focus on single events, failing to account for the connections between multiple hazards. The project argues that the combination of two smaller natural events can be significantly more damaging than a single larger event.
• While Sweden and other Nordic countries are among the least vulnerable societies globally due to a stable welfare state, creating flexible disaster risk reduction systems that can adapt to climate change and infrastructure development remains a challenge.
• In Sweden, natural events have historically not been categorized as catastrophic unless they caused significant deaths or economic losses, resulting in a lack of historical documentation on water-related disasters.
• The HydroHazards project is structured into three work packages: analyzing locations exposed to multiple hazards, examining differentiated vulnerabilities across different social groups and infrastructure, and developing risk scenarios for the effects of multiple hazards under climate change.
• Multiple hydrometeorological hazards in Sweden primarily manifest as snowmelt, high water levels in watercourses, heavy and prolonged rainfall, small-scale cloudbursts, and coastal storm surges.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2020). Att hantera sårbarhet inför hydrometeorologiska naturhändelser i Sverige. https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/faktablad-hydrohazards.pdf

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Att hantera sårbarhet inför hydrometeorologiska naturhändelser i Sverige. 2020. https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/faktablad-hydrohazards.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2020att, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Att hantera sårbarhet inför hydrometeorologiska naturhändelser i Sverige}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2020}, month = mar, url = {https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/faktablad-hydrohazards.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }