Hazards, Disasters and Resilience
The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
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Risk Academy, led by the Nexus Consortium · Hazards, Disasters and Resilience
A technological hazard is bounded by its installation, its substances and its safeguards.
Map technological, industrial and Natech hazards on a real place
The model
From a release frequency to a planning zone: how individual risk falls with distance and where the criterion line sits
DataModelGateDecisionStandard it teachesStandard it relies onNeighbouring discipline
The model From a release frequency to a planning zone: how individual risk falls with distance and where the criterion line sits
The subtopics its courses and labs teach.
For process safety engineers, regulators, land-use planners and emergency planners who must assess a hazardous installation, a dam or a transport corridor and the natural hazards that can trigger its failure.
Each method is listed with what it assumes and where it fails.
Bodies and standards are named so learners can find and apply their published work; the Academy teaches their use and links to the publisher, and no affiliation is implied.
Technological, industrial and Natech hazards's own model runs in the scene at the top of this page: set its parameters there and play the steps. The separate chart simulator is left off this page so that it stays within its size budget.
Search any place or open the world; the layers and generators follow technological, industrial and Natech hazards on the planet map, the globe and in 3D.
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Flat plan of the same data: relief, the two epicentres with magnitude and depth, the WorldPop count grid and the numbers below. The 3D twin opens on devices with WebGL once its data and library have been checked.
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The Nexus Standards the discipline teaches toward, grouped by master standard, with the disciplines that teach each.
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Open scholarly sources searched with the subject terms of Technological, industrial and Natech hazards.
Search termsTechnological, industrial and Natech hazards; Industrial and chemical accidents; Major accident hazard regulation; Process safety; Nuclear and radiological risk; Dam and structural failureDerived from the Risk Academy page on Technological, industrial and Natech hazards.
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Research and preprints as they are published, by discipline, with the faculty's other tools.
The hub lists the newest research and preprints for Technological, industrial and Natech hazards, each with its source and date. Open the research hub
From the Academy's risk taxonomy: the discipline's own entries and those of its primary courses, with how many courses teach each.
Recent developments in technological, industrial and Natech hazards, each with its source; sources checked on 16 October 2026.
Courses for this discipline are in development; until they open, study it through the connected courses and open lessons below.
Courses with this primary disciplineIn development
Each course has its primary discipline elsewhere and teaches this field as part of its scope.
| Lab | What you do in it | Courses using it |
|---|---|---|
| Map lab | Read hazard, exposure and boundaries on real maps | 3 |
| Network lab | Build dependency graphs, find critical nodes, trace cascades | 2 |
| Exposure lab | Overlay people and assets with hazard footprints | 1 |
Field platforms of the ecosystem where the subject is studied and applied.
Nexus Foundry system pages describe what each system and its rooms are designed to do; the courses teach the methods these systems apply.
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Open courses in connected disciplines teach the methods this discipline will build on.