A multi-hazards earth science perspective on the COVID-19 pandemic: the potential for concurrent and cascading crises.

ABSTRACT: Meteorological and geophysical hazards will concur and interact with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) impacts in many regions on Earth. These interactions will challenge the resilience of societies and systems. A comparison of plausible COVID-19 epidemic trajectories with multi-hazard time-series curves enables delineation of multi-hazard scenarios for selected countries (United States, China, Australia, Bangladesh) and regions (Texas). In multi-hazard crises, governments and other responding agents may be required to make complex, highly compromised, hierarchical decisions aimed to balance COVID-19 risks and protocols with disaster response and recovery operations. Contemporary socioeconomic changes (e.g. reducing risk mitigation measures, lowering restrictions on human activity to stimulat

SUBMITTER: Quigley MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7229439 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature