Towards a multi-risk, multi-sector, systemic approach to risk management

Mapping Intimacies ◽

10.5194/egusphere-egu21-11353 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Philip Ward ◽

Keyword(s):

Risk Management ◽

Paradigm Shift ◽

Research Programme ◽

Disaster Risk ◽

Decision Makers ◽

Systemic Approach ◽

Disaster Risk Management ◽

Trade Offs ◽

Increase Risk ◽

Risk Managers

Whilst the last decade saw huge scientific advances in understanding natural hazard risks, 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. Firstly, multiple hazards can have interrelated effects on risk. How can risk be better managed by considering these interrelated effects? Secondly, disaster risk management (DRM) measures taken to reduce risk from one hazard may increase risk from another hazard. How can we better account for these dynamic feedbacks between risk drivers? Thirdly, these interrelated effects have impacts across sectors. How can we account for these trade-offs and synergies across sectors, regions, and hazards? The aforementioned challenges exist within the context of an increasingly interconnected world, increased pressure for space, and climate change, in which the magnitude and frequency of single and multi-hazards are changing at an unprecedented rate. A paradigm shift is needed to successfully address these kinds of complex questions and challenges.&#160;The vision of the MYRIAD-EU team is to catalyse this paradigm shift required to move towards a multi-risk, multi-sector, systemic approach to risk management. We embark on a research programme that aims to enable policy-makers, decision-makers, and practitioners to develop forward-looking disaster risk management pathways that assess trade-offs and synergies across sectors, hazards, and scales. To do this, we will co-develop a framework for multi-hazard, multi-sector, systemic risk management, and state-of-the-art products and services to operationalise the framework. To test our framework, products and services, we plan to implement them with stakeholders in five Pilots: North Sea, Canary Islands, Scandinavia, Danube, Veneto. In this contribution, we will present the plans and vision for this ambitious research programme and look for links with existing risk multi-risk projects, networks, and activities.

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Descripción de tecnología aplicada y uso de TIC para la gestión de riesgos de desastres: "Caso México" / Description of Applied Technology and Use of ICT for Management of Disaster Risks: "Mexico Case"

Revista Internacional de Tecnología, Ciencia y Sociedad ◽

10.37467/gka-revtechno.v8.2002 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 11-22

Author(s):

Gregoria Rosa Rodríguez Godínez

Keyword(s):

Risk Management ◽

Emergency Management ◽

Disaster Risk ◽

Decision Makers ◽

Disaster Risk Management ◽

Applied Technology ◽

Technological Tools ◽

And Control ◽

Financial Losses

ABSTRACTDisasters cause problems where they occur, such as: human, economic, and financial losses, impacting society by not knowing what to do; The objective of this article is to propose the management of technological tools, the use of ICT platforms for disaster risk management in Mexico, to plan, organize, execute, direct and control, in a quick, valuable and concise manner, risk events to which the population is exposed and implement technological surveillance for its development, in emergency management entities, which enable decision makers to act in real time.RESUMENLos desastres causan problemas donde se presentan, como: pérdidas humanas, económicas, financieras, impactando la sociedad al no saber qué hacer; el objetivo del presente artículo es proponer la gestión de herramientas tecnológicas, el uso de plataformas TIC para la gestión de riesgos de desastres en México, para planear, organizar, ejecutar, dirigir y controlar, de manera rápida, valiosa y concisa, eventos de riesgo a los que está expuesta la población e implementar vigilancia tecnológica para su desarrollo, en las entidades de manejo de emergencias, que posibiliten a los tomadores de decisiones actuar en tiempo real.

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Invited perspectives: A research agenda towards Disaster Risk Management pathways in multi-risk assessment

10.5194/nhess-2021-326 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Philip James Ward ◽

James Daniell ◽

Melanie Duncan ◽

Anna Dunne ◽

Cédric Hananel ◽

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Keyword(s):

Risk Assessment ◽

Risk Management ◽

Research Agenda ◽

Disaster Risk ◽

Disaster Risk Management ◽

The European Union ◽

Trade Offs ◽

Starting Point ◽

Risk Research ◽

Sustainability Challenges

Abstract. Whilst the last decades have seen a clear shift in emphasis from managing natural hazards to managing risk, the majority of natural hazard risk research still focuses on single hazards. Internationally, there are calls for more attention for multi-hazards and multi-risks. Within the European Union (EU), the concepts of multi-hazard and multi-risk assessment and management have taken centre stage in recent years. In this perspective paper, we outline several key developments in multi-hazard and multi-risk research in the last decade, with a particular focus on the EU. We present challenges for multi-risk management as outlined in several research projects and papers. We then present a research agenda for addressing these challenges. We argue for an approach that addresses multi-hazard, multi-risk management through the lens of sustainability challenges that cut across sectors, regions, and hazards. In this approach, the starting point is a specific sustainability challenge, rather than an individual hazard or sector, and trade-offs and synergies are examined across sectors, regions, and hazards. We argue for in-depth case studies in which various approaches for multi-hazard and multi-risk management are co-developed and tested in practice. Finally, we present a new pan-European research project in which our proposed research agenda will be implemented, with the goal of enabling stakeholders to develop forward-looking disaster risk management pathways that assess trade-offs and synergies of various strategies across sectors, hazards, and scales.

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Research Frontiers of Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management: What Do We Know So Far?

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph17051807 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (5) ◽

pp. 1807

Author(s):

Emily Ying Yang Chan ◽

Holly Ching Yu Lam

Keyword(s):

Risk Management ◽

Health Risk ◽

Paradigm Shift ◽

Disaster Risk ◽

Disaster Risk Management ◽

Policy Paradigm ◽

Health Risk Management ◽

Research Frontiers ◽

Research And Policy

Health-Emergency Disaster Risk Management (Health-EDRM) emerged as the latest knowledge, research and policy paradigm shift from response to preparedness and health risk management in non-emergency times [...]

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Climate Services for Meteorological Disaster Risk Reduction in China

10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-152 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Lianchun Song ◽

Yujie Wang

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Risk Management ◽

Risk Reduction ◽

Disaster Risk Reduction ◽

Disaster Risk ◽

Decision Makers ◽

Disaster Risk Management ◽

Climate Services ◽

Meteorological Disaster ◽

Meteorological Disasters

ABSTRACT&#160; China belongs to monsoon climate suffering from a wide-range of meteorological disasters such as flood, drought, typhoon, heat wave, frost, haze, sandstorm and etc. Many of these disasters have become more frequent and resulted in more significant impacts on socio-economy development in China in recent decades, and this can be attributed to climate change in part. From 1984 to 2018, the average annual direct economic loss caused by meteorological disasters reached $29 billion, accounting for 1.8% of the GDP coupled with a death toll of up to 3710 people. It is of major national importance to provide high-quality, useable climate services to help manage and reduce the risk of meteorological disasters, as well as to aid sustainable development.We describe the climate services for the whole cycle of disaster risk management including risk identification, risk warning, disaster prevention, restoration and reconstruction in China. Based on the practices of National Climate Center(NCC) of China Meteorological Administration, we summarize the benefits, experiences and challenges of climate services for meteorological disaster risk reduction in China.Firstly, identifying and understanding climate risks are fundamental for effective disaster risk management. In addition to short term risk management, such climate services assist in building long term resilience through restoration and reconstruction which focus on reducing the underlying risk factors, siting critical infrastructure, transferring risks and strengthening disaster preparedness capacity. Secondly, China has established successful working approaches, such as government leadership, coordination among different sectors, and participation from key communities, to more effectively manage disasters. Thirdly, capacity building of climate services for disaster risk reduction is very important. NCC has established a climate impact assessment service platform including comprehensive climate risk assessment indicators, quantitative assessment of the scope, intensity, duration and losses in meteorological disasters. These services are tailored to decision-making for the effective management of disasters for society. Finally, we discuss the challenges of climate services for disaster risk reduction. Many decision-makers in climate sensitive sectors have insufficient awareness of their vulnerability to future climate change. In fact, decision-makers would benefit from better understandings of climate-related hazards and impacts. A more comprehensive assessment of the risk of meteorological-related disasters needs undertaking, along with an analysis of the vulnerability of the hazard-affected system and interactions between meteorological-related disasters and socio-economic systems.

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