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Promoting disaster preparedness and resilience by co-developing stakeholder support tools for managing the systemic risk of compounding disasters

Project description

Innovative tools for disaster risk assessment

The ongoing pandemic and climate crisis have led disaster risk management stakeholders to consider adapting their risk reduction policies and emergency plans. However, there are no tools to assess the risks’ cross-sectoral impacts. The EU-funded PARATUS project will develop an open-source platform for dynamic risk assessment to analyse and evaluate multi-hazard impact chains, risk reduction measures and disaster response scenarios under systemic vulnerabilities and uncertainties. The project will conduct forensic analysis on historical disaster events, supplement disaster databases with hazard interactions and sectoral impacts, and exploit remote sensing data with AI tools. The consortium includes research organisations, NGOs, SMEs, first-line responders and local and regional authorities.

Objective

The ongoing pandemic and climate crisis have taught us hard lessons about the systemic impact of compounding disasters. Stakeholders in disaster risk management are faced with the challenge to adapt their risk reduction policies and emergency plans but lack the tools to account for the cross-sectoral impacts and dynamic nature of the risks involved. The PARATUS project aims to fill this gap by developing an open-source platform for dynamic risk assessment that allows to analyse and evaluate multi-hazard impact chains, risk reduction measures, and disaster response scenarios in the light of systemic vulnerabilities and uncertainties. These services will be co-created within a unique transdisciplinary consortium of research organisations, NGOs, SMEs, first and second responders, and local and regional authorities. To gain a deeper understanding of multi-hazard impact chains, PARATUS will first conduct forensic analysis on historical disaster events, augment historical disaster databases with hazard interactions and sectorial impacts, and exploit remote sensing data with artificial intelligence methods. Building on these insights, PARATUS will then develop new exposure and vulnerability analysis methods that enable systemic risk assessment across sectors (e.g. humanitarian, transportation, communication) and geographic settings (e.g. islands, mountains, megacities). These methods will be used to analyse risk changes across space and time and to develop new scenarios and risk mitigation options together with stakeholders, using innovative serious games and social simulations. The results will be hosted on two stakeholder hubs related to crisis management and humanitarian relief, and provide stakeholders with a range of tools for risk reduction planning in dynamic multi-hazard environments. The service-oriented approach with active stakeholder involvement will maximise uptake and impact of the project, and help to increase Europe’s resilience to compounding disasters.

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Coordinator

UNIVERSITEIT TWENTE
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€ 584 031,00
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DRIENERLOLAAN 5
7522 NB Enschede
Netherlands

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Region
Oost-Nederland Overijssel Twente
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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