Objective Shelf zones are quickly becoming new major areas of industrial technological development owing to growing population in maritime regions and vast natural resources such as fish, oil, and gas available in these areas. Therefore, understanding risks of natural and human-made hazards in these areas contributes to strengthening the scientific and technological basis of a number of industries including oil/gas production and transport. Traditional ways to evaluate risks of earthquakes and tsunamis (e.g. through analysing historic data) are often not comprehensive enough and may result in lower risks than actual risks of these hazards, while a combined approach developed recently at the Shish Institute provides more accurate evaluations, which may affect significantly human research and industrial activities in maritime areas. The goal of the proposed project is to disseminate information to scientific and industrial communities on combined risks of earthquakes, landslides, and tsunamis to create consortium for conducting a large-scale international project devoted to investigation of combined egoisms in coastal, shelf, and continental slope areas of the Mediterranean, Black, and Caspian seas. This goal will be achieved through preparing educational and illustrative material, organizing meetings, workshops with and giving presentations to potential partners, planning and conducting official and personal communications devoted to the project. Fields of science humanitiesphilosophy, ethics and religionethicsethical principlesengineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsfossil energynatural gasnatural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesgeologyseismology Keywords Combined risks continental slope earthquake maritime area shelf zone Programme(s) FP6-INCO - Specific measures in support of international cooperation: Specific activities covering wider field of research under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006. Topic(s) INCO-D - Russia and the other New Independent States Call for proposal FP6-2002-INCO-RUSSIA+NIS/SSA-4 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme SSA - Specific Support Action Coordinator P.P. SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY OF THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES EU contribution No data Address 36 Nakhimovsky Prospect V 851 MOSCOW Russia See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (1) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all OPEN UNIVERSITY GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address Old Court, Norris Green CALLINGTON See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data
