FEATURE: Engineers smashing disciplinary silos as natural disasters worsen

As the magnitude and complexity of natural disasters become more magnified, Japanese civil engineers are stressing the importance of preparing for future calamities from the perspective of "multihazard" risk.Kazuo Konagai, former president of the nonprofit Engineers Without Borders Japan, told Kyodo News in a recent interview that he is growing more and more concerned intense climate change-fueled natural disasters are increasing the risk of simultaneous hazardous events."Speaking of (the influence of) climate change, for example, we face difficulties in disaster risk reductions for (severa…READ FULL ARTICLE