Maud Devès, Asso­ciate pro­fes­sor in envi­ron­ment, risks and nat­ur­al dis­tasters, Insti­tut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Cen­tre des poli­tiques de la terre.

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The cat­e­go­ry of “nat­ur­al dis­as­ters” clas­si­cal­ly refers to events such as floods, droughts, earth­quakes, tsunamis, vol­canic erup­tions, for­est fires, etc. Because they were caused by hydro­log­i­cal, mete­o­ro­log­i­cal or geo­phys­i­cal phe­nom­e­na, these risks were for a long time approached from a per­spec­tive bor­row­ing from the sci­en­tif­ic dis­ci­plines ded­i­cat­ed to the study of hydro­log­i­cal, mete­o­ro­log­i­cal or geo­phys­i­cal haz­ards. But recent his­to­ry has shown that it is no longer pos­si­ble to adopt this point of view. The chal­lenges of the Anthro­pocene (pop­u­la­tion growth, increased inter­con­nec­tiv­i­ty of nat­ur­al and socio-tech­ni­cal sys­tems) recon­fig­ure the way these risks impact our soci­eties and force us to rein­vent the modal­i­ties of their sci­en­tif­ic mon­i­tor­ing and pub­lic management.

Beck, U. 1999. World risk soci­ety. Malden, MA: Poli­ty Press. 

Cut­ter, S. L. (2020). The chang­ing nature of haz­ard and dis­as­ter risk in the Anthro­pocene. Annals of the Amer­i­can Asso­ci­a­tion of Geo­g­ra­phers, 1–9.