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Risk assessment and information
| Resumo: | 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 |
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| Autores principais: | Aerts, J. |
| Outros Autores: | Haer, T.; Veldkamp, T.; Colaço, M. C.; Rego, Francisco Castro; Hochrainer-Stigler, S.; Mechler, R.; Kellermann, P.; Feyen, L.; Mysiak, J.; Thieken, A. |
| Assunto: | risk assessment natural disasters |
| Ano: | 2016 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | capítulo de livro |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade de Lisboa |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
| Resumo: | 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 |
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