Cascading Natural Hazards: Visualizing, Learning and Understanding

The aim of the project was to develop methods to analyze and understand cascading natural hazards and their multiple effects and impacts. We designed scenarios and developed visualisations of the natural and societal consequences in a Swedish watercourse. We collaborated with secondary school students and additional public stakeholders.

A motivation for the project was to investigate how we can communicate and visualize nature-related information in a better way and change perspectives. We wanted to create commitment, interest and a sense of what is possible to achieve and thus counter and prevent feelings of helplessness.

On the RISE end of the project, the practical outcome was a web-based visualization which was designed around so called scrollytelling and which was used as an opportunity to explore the opportunities and challenges of using prominent digital tools for image generation to visualize natural events and hazards.