Where Science and Policy Meet
Union Civil Protection Mechanism Decision No 1313/2013/EU requires EU Member States and UCPM participating states to report to the Commission on their disaster risk management activities to support formulating an EU risk management policy that would complement and enhance the national ones. The aim of this report is to support the use of the new “Reporting Guidelines on Disaster Risk Management, Art. 6(1)d of Decision No.1313/2013/EU,” (2019/C 428/07) by relevant national authorities.
This report is the second in the series of reports “Recommendations for National Risk Assessment for Disaster Risk Management”. The aim of this series of reports is to build-up a network of experts involved in the different aspects of the national risk assessment process.
The European Commission Joint Research Centre joins national, regional and global efforts to acquire better risk governance structure through evidences, science and knowledge management. Risk governance facilitates policy cycle for the implementation of integrated disaster risk management. Risk Assessment is positioned at the heart of the policy cycle and provides evidence for DRM planning and the implementation of prevention and preparedness measures.
This report explains the purpose and objective of each step of the reporting to give meaning and motivation to demanding risk governance processes. It collects the contributions of fourteen expert teams that prepared short step by step description of disaster risk assessment approaches specific for the chosen hazard/asset usable in the context of a national risk assessment exercise and addressed national risk assessment capability to be further developed in order to bring the evidence to next level A special focus is dedicated to capability needed to tackle climate change. The risks covered are of natural, anthropogenic and socio-natural origin: floods, droughts, wildfires, biodiversity loss, earthquakes, volcano eruptions, biological disasters, Natech accidents, chemical accidents, nuclear accidents, terrorist attacks, critical infrastructure disruptions, cybersecurity and hybrid threats.
POLJANSEK Karmen;
CASAJUS VALLES Ainara;
MARIN FERRER Montserrat;
ARTES VIVANCOS Tomas;
BOCA Roberto;
BONADONNA Costanza;
BRANCO Alfredo;
CAMPANHARO Wesley;
DE JAGER Alfred;
DE RIGO Daniele;
DOTTORI Francesco;
DURRANT Tracy;
ESTREGUIL Christine;
FERRARI Davide;
FRISCHKNECHT Corine;
GALBUSERA Luca;
GARCIA PUERTA Blanca;
GIANNOPOULOS Georgios;
GIRGIN Serkan;
GOWLAND Richard;
GRECCHI Rosana;
HERNANDEZ CEBALLOS Miguel Angel;
IURLARO Giorgia;
KAMPOURAKIS Georgios;
KARLOS Vasileios;
KRAUSMANN Elisabeth;
LARCHER Martin;
LEQUARRE Anne Sophie;
LIBERTA' Giorgio;
LOUGHLIN Susan C.;
MAIANTI Pieralberto;
MANGIONE Domenico;
MARQUES Alexandra;
MENONI Scira;
MONTERO PRIETO Milagros;
NAUMANN Gustavo;
NECCI Amos;
JACOME FELIX OOM Duarte;
PFIEFFER Hans;
ROBUCHON Marine;
SALAMON Peter;
SANGIORGI Marco;
SAN-MIGUEL-AYANZ Jesus;
RAPOSO DE M. DO N. E S. DE SOTTO MAYOR Maria Luisa;
THEOCHARIDOU Marianthi;
THEODORIDIS Georgios;
TRUEBA ALONSO Cristina;
TSIONIS Georgios;
VOGT Juergen;
WOOD Maureen;
2021-02-23
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC123585
978-92-76-30256-8 (online),
978-92-76-30257-5 (print),
1831-9424 (online),
1018-5593 (print),
EUR 30596 EN,
OP KJ-NA-30596-EN-N (online),
OP KJ-NA-30596-EN-C (print),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC123585,
10.2760/80545 (online),
10.2760/43449 (print),
