Natech accidents have an increasing relevance due to the growing number of such events and to their severe consequences. Climate change and global warming are intensifying the occurrence and the magnitude of climate-related natural events, further in...
The occurrence of Natech (natural hazard triggering technological disasters) accidents has generated a reflection about the need to manage adequately the risk to people, to the environment, and to the infrastructures subjected to natural events. For...
The synergistic interaction between emergency management departments and enterprises constitutes a fundamental mechanism for mitigating the risks of technological accidents caused by natural disasters (Natech). The efficacy of this collaborative appr...
Global stocktakes reveal that studies on natural hazards triggering technological accidents (Natech) in the context of climate change are limited in Southeast Asia, which is characterized by rapid industrial growth and high exposure to extreme weathe...
Urban lifeline Natech events are coupled systems composed of multiple risks and entities with complex dynamic transmission chains. Predicting risk evolution probabilities is the core task for achieving the safety management of urban lifeline Natech e...
Material degradation is a critical factor in assessing the vulnerability of industrial infrastructure, particularly in the presence of extreme natural events. This study shows that the relation between material degradation and NaTech risk is both bid...
Along with global climate change and industrialization, domino effects caused by Natech events occurred frequently in chemical industrial parks over the past decades. Previous research has not yet proposed a reliable method to obtain all possible pat...
This is the second part of the quantitative framework for the propagation paths of Natech domino effects in chemical industrial parks, which focuses on risk assessment and a mitigation system based on the propagation path probabilities obtained from...
This paper proposes a novel framework for the analysis of integrated energy systems (IESs) exposed to both stochastic failures and “shock” climate-induced failures, such as those characterizing NaTech accidental scenarios. With such a fra...
Data on wildfires (burned area ≥ 100 ha) in South Korea were compiled for 2000–2025 and analyzed together with the national geospatial inventories of hazardous fuel facilities to characterize wildfire-triggered Natech exposure and potential...
Marine ports located in regions of moderate seismicity can face high Natech (natural hazard-triggered technological) risk because large inventories of hazardous materials are stored near dense urban populations. This study proposes and applies a Nate...
24 December 2015
This paper aims to introduce the concept and characteristics of natech disaster (natural hazards triggered technological disaster) and to explore the policy issues in complex disaster management in Korea. This research examines the issues of natech c...
24 March 2021
(1) Background: We aim to examine whether people activate initial protection behavior, adopt evacuation behavior, worry about the possibility of a tsunami, and consider natural hazard-triggered technological (Natech) situations in a sudden-onset eart...
Natech events, involving multi-hazard coupling and cascading effects, pose serious threats to coal mine safety. This paper addresses flood-induced Natech scenarios in coal mining and introduces a two-stage cascading analysis framework based on hazard...
The purpose of this paper is to approach the way investors perceive the risk associated with unexpected environmental disasters. For that reason, we examine certain types of natural and technological disasters, also known as “na-tech”. Ba...
Wildfires are increasingly recognized as a climatological hazard, able to threaten industrial and critical infrastructure safety and operations and lead to Natech disasters. Future projections of exacerbated fire regimes increase the likelihood of Na...
In the last decades, the frequency and severity of Natural-Technological events (i.e., industrial accidents triggered by natural phenomena or Na-Techs) increased. These could be more severe than simple technological accidents because the natural phen...
20 November 2020
The mechanism of natural-hazard-triggered technological (Na-tech) cascading disasters is complex, and the extent to which their damage is aggravated by various secondary events is difficult to quantify. This study selected a large oil depot and const...
Wildfire events are becoming more frequent across Europe, extending well beyond the traditionally fire-prone Mediterranean countries. Little attention is paid to the threat that wildfires pose to industrial facilities near forested areas, particularl...
Industrial plants are vulnerable to different natural hazards, which can cause significant damage, economic losses, and loss of functionality, generating what is called a Natural Hazard Triggering Technological Disaster (Na-Tech event). Considering t...
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the design, development and commercialization of nuclear power Small Modular Reactors (SMRs). Actual SMR designs cover the full spectrum of nuclear reactor technologies, including water-, gas-, li...
The increasing complexity of multi-hazard disasters poses significant challenges to sustainable disaster risk governance. However, prevention and control measures are often scattered across heterogeneous and unstructured sources, limiting their syste...
Accidents in port areas in the Gulf of Mexico have had great economic costs, since this is an area exposed to extreme phenomena. Tropical cyclones or cold fronts, also known as Tehuantepecers, result in intense winds and waves that impact the coastal...
The overwhelming impact that disasters have on societies is fed by socio-economic vulnerabilities and political-institutional factors. Disasters are, therefore, increasingly regarded as partially created by humans instead of as purely natural events....
Untreated hexamethylenetetramine (HMT) was discharged into the Tone River in the central area of Japan, and the risk management plan in the watershed area has been strengthened because HMT is the precursor of formaldehyde (FA) regulated by Japanese w...
With the increase in industrial accidents induced by natural disasters, the study of earthquake risk assessment has been widely considered by scholars. However, the cascade evolution of Natech (natural–technological) disasters has not been thor...
In the context of global climate change, with the increasing frequency and severity of extreme events—such as draughts and floods—which will likely make water demand more uncertain and jeopardise its availability, those in charge of water...
The increasing trend towards the global use of Information Technology (IT) is currently determining the need for more and better infrastructures (both physical and digital) for processing, storing and transferring large amounts of data. As Critical I...
During the past decades, to minimize Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions and asphalt fumes during the asphalt mix production and construction process, various warm mix asphalt (WMA) additives have been developed and successfully applied. Currently, as pro...
Image-based 3D reconstruction enables robot-assisted interventions and image-guided navigation, which are emerging technologies in laparoscopy. When a robotic arm guides a laparoscope for image acquisition, hand–eye calibration is required to k...