Final Report Summary - KNOW-4-DRR (Enabling knowledge for disaster risk reduction in integration to climate change adaptation)
Executive Summary:
KNOW-4-DRR aims at exploring key aspects related to knowledge management in the context of risk reduction and disaster mitigation integrated with climate change adaptation strategies.
KNOW-4-DRR is drawing on analytical work already carried out at national and regional levels regarding information and knowledge management systems, related barriers and bridges, that are in place in the project partners’ countries of origin across Europe and in the countries where some partners have been working (e.g. in Vietnam, Mexico, and several African countries).
More than a systematic review, the project is aimed at addressing strengths and weaknesses of the different information and knowledge management systems in an attempt to answer some crucial questions. These include: what is the difference between disaster risk reduction related information and disaster risk reduction knowledge? to what extent is knowledge shared and co-produced so that it translates into preventive action and into implemented and implementable decisions?
One relevant project goal is to frame a knowledge management system, to be developed on the basis of stakeholders’ consultations, partners’ own experience, seminars and workshops. Coordination activities that have been carried out insofar include also some living labs, where a very strong connection with key stakeholders exists so as to guarantee not only continuous consultation but also the possibility to test some of the project’s hypotheses. The living labs consist of a well balanced sample of different scales at which decisions are made (national, interregional, and local) and where therefore different stakeholders from all social groups considered in the knowledge management framework are involved. Three living labs were foreseen at the beginning of the project: the Vietnam case, the Po Riverbasin case in Italy, and the Lorca Municipality case in Spain. Another living lab, the Umbria Region one, was added later on after the 2012 November flood that hit Central Italy, as the coordinating partner has established a long-lasting activity aimed at collecting and analyzing post-flood damage data.
Those activities are aimed at tackling crucial issues like uncertainty factors in decisions involving risks and crises, knowledge flow and use by different sectors, experts, and the general public, the effects of the current financial crisis in Europe in knowledge management and decision making for DRR. Moreover, in the light of much more dispersed and diffused media, the project tackles some fundamental questions, such as: what is relevant information and knowledge in a given context and for achieving a given risk mitigation result? Is there an “objective” answer? To what extent does the answer depend on the role and the culture of stakeholders? Do stakeholders learn from their own experience and from events that occur worldwide? Is the learning process facilitated or hampered by current organisational arrangements in governments and in academia?
The project attempts to systematize what its consortium partners have learnt from their previous work with different stakeholders in varios contexts and periods and to bring such experience in the various coordination activities. Systhematization relates to data, information and knowledge management and grounds on past efforts in sharing, developing, archiving relevant information and knowledge about risks and effective mitigation measures. The consortium is able to provide an important link between knowledge management systems as developed in the most recent years in the private sector and as intended to be developed in the fields of DRR and CCA by the KNOW-4-DRR consortium. DRR and CCA in fact are essentially different from private businesses in many regards, starting from the range and number of different organisations, actors and bodies to be considered and linked. The consortium is able to build on previous research efforts that have already provided synthetic reviews of recent and current mitigation practices exploring what information and knowledge was used (or absent).
Project Context and Objectives:
KNOW-4-DRR aims at exploring key aspects related to knowledge management in the context of risk reduction and disaster mitigation integrated with climate change adaptation strategies.
KNOW-4-DRR is drawing on analytical work already carried out at national and regional levels regarding information and knowledge management systems, related barriers and bridges, that are in place in the project partners’ countries of origin across Europe and in the countries where some partners have been working (e.g. in Vietnam, Mexico, and several African countries).
More than a systematic review, the project is aimed at addressing strengths and weaknesses of the different information and knowledge management systems in an attempt to answer some crucial questions. These include: what is the difference between disaster risk reduction related information and disaster risk reduction knowledge? to what extent is knowledge shared and co-produced so that it translates into preventive action and into implemented and implementable decisions?
One relevant project goal is to frame a knowledge management system, to be developed on the basis of stakeholders’ consultations, partners’ own experience, seminars and workshops. Coordination activities that have been carried out insofar include also some living labs, where a very strong connection with key stakeholders exists so as to guarantee not only continuous consultation but also the possibility to test some of the project’s hypotheses. The living labs consist of a well balanced sample of different scales at which decisions are made (national, interregional, and local) and where therefore different stakeholders from all social groups considered in the knowledge management framework are involved. Three living labs were foreseen at the beginning of the project: the Vietnam case, the Po Riverbasin case in Italy, and the Lorca Municipality case in Spain. Another living lab, the Umbria Region one, was added later on after the 2012 November flood that hit Central Italy, as the coordinating partner has established a long-lasting activity aimed at collecting and analyzing post-flood damage data.
Those activities are aimed at tackling crucial issues like uncertainty factors in decisions involving risks and crises, knowledge flow and use by different sectors, experts, and the general public, the effects of the current financial crisis in Europe in knowledge management and decision making for DRR. Moreover, in the light of much more dispersed and diffused media, the project tackles some fundamental questions, such as: what is relevant information and knowledge in a given context and for achieving a given risk mitigation result? Is there an “objective” answer? To what extent does the answer depend on the role and the culture of stakeholders? Do stakeholders learn from their own experience and from events that occur worldwide? Is the learning process facilitated or hampered by current organisational arrangements in governments and in academia?
The project attempts to systematize what its consortium partners have learnt from their previous work with different stakeholders in varios contexts and periods and to bring such experience in the various coordination activities. Systhematization relates to data, information and knowledge management and grounds on past efforts in sharing, developing, archiving relevant information and knowledge about risks and effective mitigation measures. The consortium is able to provide an important link between knowledge management systems as developed in the most recent years in the private sector and as intended to be developed in the fields of DRR and CCA by the KNOW-4-DRR consortium. DRR and CCA in fact are essentially different from private businesses in many regards, starting from the range and number of different organisations, actors and bodies to be considered and linked. The consortium is able to build on previous research efforts that have already provided synthetic reviews of recent and current mitigation practices exploring what information and knowledge was used (or absent).
Project Results:
A detailed description of the main S&T results and foregrounds is contained in the attached final report
Potential Impact:
A description of the potential impact and main dissemination and exploitation activities and the exploitation of results is contained in the attached final report
List of Websites:
www.know4drr.polimi.it
KNOW-4-DRR aims at exploring key aspects related to knowledge management in the context of risk reduction and disaster mitigation integrated with climate change adaptation strategies.
KNOW-4-DRR is drawing on analytical work already carried out at national and regional levels regarding information and knowledge management systems, related barriers and bridges, that are in place in the project partners’ countries of origin across Europe and in the countries where some partners have been working (e.g. in Vietnam, Mexico, and several African countries).
More than a systematic review, the project is aimed at addressing strengths and weaknesses of the different information and knowledge management systems in an attempt to answer some crucial questions. These include: what is the difference between disaster risk reduction related information and disaster risk reduction knowledge? to what extent is knowledge shared and co-produced so that it translates into preventive action and into implemented and implementable decisions?
One relevant project goal is to frame a knowledge management system, to be developed on the basis of stakeholders’ consultations, partners’ own experience, seminars and workshops. Coordination activities that have been carried out insofar include also some living labs, where a very strong connection with key stakeholders exists so as to guarantee not only continuous consultation but also the possibility to test some of the project’s hypotheses. The living labs consist of a well balanced sample of different scales at which decisions are made (national, interregional, and local) and where therefore different stakeholders from all social groups considered in the knowledge management framework are involved. Three living labs were foreseen at the beginning of the project: the Vietnam case, the Po Riverbasin case in Italy, and the Lorca Municipality case in Spain. Another living lab, the Umbria Region one, was added later on after the 2012 November flood that hit Central Italy, as the coordinating partner has established a long-lasting activity aimed at collecting and analyzing post-flood damage data.
Those activities are aimed at tackling crucial issues like uncertainty factors in decisions involving risks and crises, knowledge flow and use by different sectors, experts, and the general public, the effects of the current financial crisis in Europe in knowledge management and decision making for DRR. Moreover, in the light of much more dispersed and diffused media, the project tackles some fundamental questions, such as: what is relevant information and knowledge in a given context and for achieving a given risk mitigation result? Is there an “objective” answer? To what extent does the answer depend on the role and the culture of stakeholders? Do stakeholders learn from their own experience and from events that occur worldwide? Is the learning process facilitated or hampered by current organisational arrangements in governments and in academia?
The project attempts to systematize what its consortium partners have learnt from their previous work with different stakeholders in varios contexts and periods and to bring such experience in the various coordination activities. Systhematization relates to data, information and knowledge management and grounds on past efforts in sharing, developing, archiving relevant information and knowledge about risks and effective mitigation measures. The consortium is able to provide an important link between knowledge management systems as developed in the most recent years in the private sector and as intended to be developed in the fields of DRR and CCA by the KNOW-4-DRR consortium. DRR and CCA in fact are essentially different from private businesses in many regards, starting from the range and number of different organisations, actors and bodies to be considered and linked. The consortium is able to build on previous research efforts that have already provided synthetic reviews of recent and current mitigation practices exploring what information and knowledge was used (or absent).
Project Context and Objectives:
KNOW-4-DRR aims at exploring key aspects related to knowledge management in the context of risk reduction and disaster mitigation integrated with climate change adaptation strategies.
KNOW-4-DRR is drawing on analytical work already carried out at national and regional levels regarding information and knowledge management systems, related barriers and bridges, that are in place in the project partners’ countries of origin across Europe and in the countries where some partners have been working (e.g. in Vietnam, Mexico, and several African countries).
More than a systematic review, the project is aimed at addressing strengths and weaknesses of the different information and knowledge management systems in an attempt to answer some crucial questions. These include: what is the difference between disaster risk reduction related information and disaster risk reduction knowledge? to what extent is knowledge shared and co-produced so that it translates into preventive action and into implemented and implementable decisions?
One relevant project goal is to frame a knowledge management system, to be developed on the basis of stakeholders’ consultations, partners’ own experience, seminars and workshops. Coordination activities that have been carried out insofar include also some living labs, where a very strong connection with key stakeholders exists so as to guarantee not only continuous consultation but also the possibility to test some of the project’s hypotheses. The living labs consist of a well balanced sample of different scales at which decisions are made (national, interregional, and local) and where therefore different stakeholders from all social groups considered in the knowledge management framework are involved. Three living labs were foreseen at the beginning of the project: the Vietnam case, the Po Riverbasin case in Italy, and the Lorca Municipality case in Spain. Another living lab, the Umbria Region one, was added later on after the 2012 November flood that hit Central Italy, as the coordinating partner has established a long-lasting activity aimed at collecting and analyzing post-flood damage data.
Those activities are aimed at tackling crucial issues like uncertainty factors in decisions involving risks and crises, knowledge flow and use by different sectors, experts, and the general public, the effects of the current financial crisis in Europe in knowledge management and decision making for DRR. Moreover, in the light of much more dispersed and diffused media, the project tackles some fundamental questions, such as: what is relevant information and knowledge in a given context and for achieving a given risk mitigation result? Is there an “objective” answer? To what extent does the answer depend on the role and the culture of stakeholders? Do stakeholders learn from their own experience and from events that occur worldwide? Is the learning process facilitated or hampered by current organisational arrangements in governments and in academia?
The project attempts to systematize what its consortium partners have learnt from their previous work with different stakeholders in varios contexts and periods and to bring such experience in the various coordination activities. Systhematization relates to data, information and knowledge management and grounds on past efforts in sharing, developing, archiving relevant information and knowledge about risks and effective mitigation measures. The consortium is able to provide an important link between knowledge management systems as developed in the most recent years in the private sector and as intended to be developed in the fields of DRR and CCA by the KNOW-4-DRR consortium. DRR and CCA in fact are essentially different from private businesses in many regards, starting from the range and number of different organisations, actors and bodies to be considered and linked. The consortium is able to build on previous research efforts that have already provided synthetic reviews of recent and current mitigation practices exploring what information and knowledge was used (or absent).
Project Results:
A detailed description of the main S&T results and foregrounds is contained in the attached final report
Potential Impact:
A description of the potential impact and main dissemination and exploitation activities and the exploitation of results is contained in the attached final report
List of Websites:
www.know4drr.polimi.it