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Recommendations for National Risk Assessment for Disaster Risk Management in EU

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Approaches for identifying, analysing and evaluating risks
Decision No 1313/2013/EU on a Union Civil Protection Mechanism (UCPM) calls Participating States to develop risk assessments periodically and make the summary of their National Risk Assessment (NRA) available to the European Commission as a way to prevent disaster risk in Europe. In order to facilitate countries on this task, the European Commission developed the Guidelines on risk assessment and mapping. In spite of these, the summaries received have revealed several challenges related to the process and the content of the assessments. The current report aims to provide scientific support to the UCPM participant countries in their development of NRA, explaining why and how a risk assessment could be carried out, how the results of this could be used for Disaster Risk Management planning and in general, how science can help civil protection authorities and staff from ministries and agencies engaged in NRA activities. The report is the result of the collaborative effort of the Disaster Risk Management Knowledge Centre team and nine Joint Research Centre expert groups which provided their insight on tools and methods for specific risk assessment related to certain hazards and assets: drought, earthquakes, floods, terrorist attacks, biological disasters, critical infrastructures, chemical accidents, nuclear accidents and Natech accidents. The current document would be improved by a next version that would include scientific guidance on other risks and the collaboration of potential users.
2019-05-08
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC114650
978-92-79-98366-5 (online),    978-92-76-03217-5 (print),   
1831-9424 (online),    1018-5593 (print),   
EUR 29557 EN,    OP KJ-NA-29557-EN-N (online),    OP KJ-NA-29557-EN-C (print),   
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC114650,   
10.2760/084707 (online),    10.2760/147842 (print),   
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