Mission Our mission is to promote a new cross-disciplinary approach to the emerging topic of cascading disasters, involving the public sector, private enterprises and communities in impact-oriented collaborations. Research Cascading disasters is an emerging topic in the scientific and political community. Key Questions The majority of the cascading process is still to be investigated. See the Questions we address. Knowledge Exchange Cascades@IRDR has been created with the support of the UCL Knowledge Exchange Award. IRDR - Institute for Risk & Disaster Reduction Our research group developed alongside the Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction.