Objectif
Coastal floods are one of the most dangerous and harmful natural hazards affecting urban areas adjacent to shorelines. Rapid urbanisation combined with climate change and poor governance means a significant increase in the risk of local surface flooding coinciding with high water levels in rivers and high tide or storm surges from the sea, posing a greater risk of devastation to coastal communities. The threats posed need to be addressed not just in terms of flood prediction and control, but taking into account governance and socio-economic issues. PEARL brings together world leading expertise in both the domain of hydro-engineering and risk reduction and management services to pool knowledge and practical experience in order to develop more sustainable risk management solutions for coastal communities focusing on present and projected extreme hydro-meteorological events. The project will examine 7 case studies from across the EU to develop a holistic risk reduction framework that can identify multi-stressor risk assessment, risk cascading processes and strengthen risk governance by enabling an active role for key actors. The research programme links risk and root cause assessment through enhanced FORIN methodology, event prediction, forecast and warning, development of adaptive structural and non-structural strategies and active stakeholder participation. The project aims to develop novel technologies and methods that can improve the early warning process and its components; it builds a pan-European knowledge base gathering real case studies and demonstrations of best practice across the EU to support capacity development for the delivery of cost-effective risk-reduction plans. Additionally, the project provides an interface to relevant ongoing tsunami work: it plugs into global databases, early warning systems and processes at WMO, and contributes to community building, development of guidelines and communication avenues at the global level through IWA.
Champ scientifique
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdatabases
- social sciencessociologygovernancecrisis management
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesphysical geographynatural disasters
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
Programme(s)
Appel à propositions
FP7-ENV-2013-two-stage
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CP - Collaborative project (generic)Coordinateur
2611 AX Delft
Pays-Bas
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Participants (25)
21073 Hamburg
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2970 HOERSHOLM
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157 80 ATHINA
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7034 Trondheim
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06100 NICE - CEDEX 2
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WC2R 2LS London
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SW7 2AZ LONDON
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CB2 1TN Cambridge
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08940 CORNELLA DE LLOBREGAT BARCELONA
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150 8925 Shibuya Ku Tokyo
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80539 Munchen
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EX4 4QJ Exeter
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38130 ECHIROLLES
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16137 Genova
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1202 GENEVA 2
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E14 2BE London
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08034 Barcelona
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141 22 IRAKLEIO
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3811 HN Amersfoort
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2628 CN Delft
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3058516 TSUKUBA
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12120 Pathumthani
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20224 KEELUNG
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70174 Stuttgart
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75007 Paris
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