Natural hazards have caused ~100,000 fatalities and over €100 billion in economic losses in the EU since 2000. The last decade saw huge scientific advances in understanding natural hazard risks, and within the EU there has been a shift in practice from managing hazards to managing risks. Nevertheless, most research and policy still addresses risk from a single-hazard, single-sector, perspective. This presents obstacles for addressing real-world challenges faced by risk managers and other decision-makers. MYRIAD-EU’s vision is to catalyse the paradigm shift required to move towards a multi-risk, multi-sector, systemic approach to risk assessment and management. To achieve this vision, our overall aim is that by the end of MYRIAD-EU policy-makers, decision-makers, and practitioners will be able to develop forward-looking disaster risk management pathways that assess trade-offs and synergies across sectors, hazards, and scales.
To achieve this overall vision and aim, the main objectives of MYRIAD-EU are to:
• Develop a common baseline and understanding on multi-hazard and multi-risk definitions, indicators, functions, methods, tools, and policies;
• Co-develop and co-evaluate a harmonised framework in five multi-hazard, multi-sector, multi-scale Pilots bridging science and practice;
• Build a catalogue of dynamic feedbacks between risk drivers, including systemic vulnerability;
• Develop and test software for generating quantitative and qualitative multi-hazard and multi-risk scenarios;
• Develop forward-looking DRM pathways in five Pilots;
• Synthesise the results; and
• Improve knowledge exchange on multi-hazard risk assessment and management.
