A system of interdependent networks is significantly more vulnerable to shocks and damages, leading to cascading failures across networks.

Evidence

Cascading Failures in Interdependent Economic Networks (Springer Nature Link)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Extreme misfortune can have cascading negative effects on families. — Crews, Harry, A childhood the biography of a place, 21; Redundant oversight networks can either cushion or cascade failures — Shapiro, Susan P., The Social Control of Impersonal Trust, 110; Clearinghouse mutualization makes a single member’s failure a system-wide contagion risk. (+1 more)

Related

• Redundant oversight networks can either cushion or cascade failures (similarity 0.87)
• Clearinghouse mutualization makes a single member’s failure a system-wide contagion risk. (similarity 0.79)