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Risk assessment and information
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Autores
Colaço, M. C.
Rego, Francisco Castro
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Resumo(s)
Knowing the increasing trends in natural disasters and
losses, it is imperative to take action on disaster risks to
improve resilience of European societies to natural hazards.
The main goal, therefore, of the ENHANCE project
is to develop and analyse innovative ways to manage
natural hazard risks. Key is to develop new multi-sector
partnerships (MSPs) that aim at reducing or redistributing
risk, and increase resilience of societies. For several
reasons, comprehensive and accurate risk information
is important for MSPs and for policy-making in
general. First, a better understanding of natural hazard
risk is important for preventing excessive socio-eco-nomic stress at levels from local to national to international,
and in order to plan for reducing risk from
extreme events in the future. For example, measures
that reduce risk (e.g. levees to prevent flooding) require
a certain design level or elevation, which can be derived
from historical water level data or hydrological simulation
models. Second, post-disaster information on the losses
from a natural hazard event is important, in order to prepare
(emergency) aid to the region. In addition, accurate
post-event loss information is needed to estimate
whether financial support is needed in terms of compensation
or new investments to recover the area and
develop the economy back to its original state
Descrição
Palavras-chave
risk assessment natural disasters
Contexto Educativo
Citação
Aerts, J., Haer, T., Veldkamp, T., Colaço, M.C., Rego, F.C., Hochrainer-Stigler, S., Mechler, R., Kellermann, P., Feyen, L., Mysiak, J., Thieken, A. (2016) Risk assessment & information. In: Aerts, J., Mysiak, J. (Eds.), Novel multi-sector partnerships in disaster risk management – results of the ENHANCE project, pp. 30-49. Amsterdam, Netherlands: ENHANCE consortium