Disaster Risk Management (DRM) is a complex and interdisciplinary field that requires accurate, reliable visual products and reporting material to support the decision making process. In the disaster cycle there are two key phases to consider: before and after the event. Each phase consists of various activities. The pre-occurrence phase focuses on risk assessment, prevention and preparedness, while the post-occurrence phase encompasses response to the event, damage assessment, and recovery/restoration.
The main objective of this quarterly report is to share how the European Crisis Management Laboratory (ECML) Mapping Team at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) supports all the various activities of those phases with its daily situational awareness reports (ECHO Daily Flash and ECHO Daily Maps) and on-demand products (ECHO Situation Maps/Infographics). The team uses a variety of data sources (e.g. satellite imagery, geographical and ancillary data, statistical repositories), to produce maps and situational reports that depict the spatial distribution of hazards, vulnerabilities, as well as capacities in coping with them. In so doing it collaborates with experts from other fields inside and outside the Europe.
Besides contributing to identifying high-risk areas, helping in prioritize interventions and facilitating the communication with stakeholders, these products represent an essential tool used by the Emergency Response Coordination Centre (ERCC) at the Directorate General of the European Commission for Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG ECHO) for its daily activity of monitoring disasters occurring all over the globe.
The function of the ECML Mapping Team requires a multidisciplinary and collaborative approach along with the employment of various highly specialized skills and expertise under time pressure, given the daily delivery of the analytical products. This report is the third one of its kind (previous ones, JRC133755, JRC136897, JRC137348 were focused on the first, the second and the third quarters of 2023) and explore the value added of the daily outcomes of the ECML analyses when looking back at all of them, trying to identify trends among the disaster events occurred in the third quarter of 2023. This report is intended to gain a knowledge of what happen periodically across the world, how many events occurred, and which are most/worst affected countries by one or multiple natural disaster events or crises.
The activities presented hereafter cover the fourth quarter of 2023. However, this being the last report of the year, it follows a broader approach looking at yearly trends and developments with the aim of increasing overall situational awareness by comparing the outcomes of the 4 quarterly reports of the year.
SANTINI Marzia;
DESTRO Elisa;
GERHARDINGER Andrea;
MASTRONUNZIO Marco;
SALVITTI Valerio;
TUCCI Michele;
2024-04-22
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC137473
978-92-68-14949-2 (online),
1831-9424 (online),
EUR 31914 EN,
OP KJ-NA-31-914-EN-N (online),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC137473,
10.2760/330635 (online),
