A Typology of Enhanced Terrorism in Calamitous Conditions

The notion of enhanced terrorism involves terrorist group or lone operative exploitation of natural and human-made calamitous conditions to compound terrorist event effects. Those catastrophic conditions serve as antecedents to enhanced terrorism. Natural catastrophic conditions include, but are not limited to, geographical locales affected by flood, drought, malnutrition, and the disease that invariably follows. One contemporary example is Canada’s massive wildfires in 2023, with their cross-border effects and potential to influence further climate change.