Natech Risk Management in Practice

Ana Maria Cruz is an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway; and Emeritus Professor from the Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Uji, Japan. She received a Chemical Engineering degree in 1987, and worked in industry for over 10 years before pursuing graduate studies. She obtained a MSc. in Applied Development in 1999, and a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from Tulane University in 2003. She has worked in the private and public sectors, in academia and with government at the local and international levels in four continents. Ana Maria Cruz pioneered research regarding natural hazard-triggered technological accidents (known as Natechs). Currently, her research interests include area-wide Natech risk management, accident investigation and analysis, household hazard adjustment, risk perception, and risk communication concerning Natech hazards, as well as climate change impacts on the oil and gas industry. She has published over 101 peer-reviewed journal articles, books, and book chapters. She served as the President of the International Society for Integrated Disaster Risk Management (IDRiM) from 2020-2026, where she also serves as the Editor In-Chief for the IDRiM Journal. Furthermore, she is an Editor for the Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries.

Shin-ichi Aoki is a Professor Emeritus at Osaka University. He received his Doctoral degree from Osaka University, Japan, in the field of Civil Engineering. He started his career at Osaka University as a research associate in 1983. He moved to Toyohashi University of Technology as an associate professor in 1993 and promoted to full professor in 2003. He moved back to Osaka University in 2012. He retired from Osaka University in 2023 with the title of Professor Emeritus. His academic activities are mainly with the Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE). He served as the Director of JSCE and Chair of the Coastal Engineering Committee from 2015 to 2016. He is currently the President of the Kansai Branch of JSCE. His research field is coastal engineering, including coastal disaster prevention, coastal geomorphology, and coastal environment. Recently, he has been interested in the safety of petroleum complexes located in coastal areas against natural disasters.

Chapter 1. Features of Natech events in the chemical and process industry: analysis of an extended collection of past accidents.- Chapter 2. Empirical Estimation of the Probability of Tropical Storm-related Natech Events in the United States from 1990 to 2017.- Chapter 3. Understanding the damage distribution in a residential area of an explosion at an aluminum plant caused by the Western Japan heavy rains in the summer of 2018.- Chapter 4. Natech events driven by floods in Japan: Chain of events and their lessons (Lessons from recent Natech cases in the context of Japan).- Chapter 5. Impact of a Natech accident on residential land prices near an industrial park.- Chapter 6. SEISMIC-INDUCED FAILURES FOR CORRODED ONSHORE PIPELINES: A DISCRETE-EVENT SIMULATION PERSPECTIVE.- Chapter 7. Developing a high-efficiency methodology to assess the pipeline failure probability owing to the multiple independent sources of rainfall-induced debris flow.- Chapter 8. Numerical Estimation of the Behaviour of Oil Storage Tank under Tsunami Inundation by Using Fluid-Structure Interaction Analysis.- Chapter 9. Tsunami debris modeling: Importance of other external forces on movement after tsunami arrival.- Chapter 10. Natech events caused by wildfire in wildland-industrial interface.- Chapter 11. The influence of safety barrier degradation on the evolution of Natech accidents.- Chapter 12. Disaster prevention measures in SMEs located in an industrial park at Sakai-Senboku, Osaka, Japan.- Chapter 13. Natech Risk from an industry perspective: the case of some industrial facilities in Colombia.- Chapter 14. Enforcement and risk management of hazardous sites during the Covid-19 pandemic in the European Union.- Chapter 15. Natech risk information disclosure and participatory risk management: A review.- Chapter 16. Communicative spaces will be critical to effective Natech risk management in industrial parks: Looking back and looking forward.