Workshop KULTURISK, aperte le registrazioni

The 3rd KULTURisk workshop entitled 'Benefits of disaster prevention measures: consolidating and widening an innovative risk assessment methodology', took place in Venice, at the Arsenale,  on 19-20 September 2013.

 

 

Effective strategies and plans of Disaster Risk Reduction are built on a good understanding about the risks a community is facing. This understanding can only be achieved through a Risk Assessments methodology that considers the multi-faceted physical/environmental, social and economic aspects.

The KULTURisk project aims at supporting the spreading of a culture of prevention, by offering the possibility to evaluate the actual economic, environmental, cultural and social benefits of different risk reduction measures. This evaluation is carried out with the use of a comprehensive risk assessment methodology. The KULTURisk methodology has been developed and validated on water-related hazards (i.e. floods, debris flows and landslides, storm surges), in different European case studies and with different receptors/elements at risk (i.e. people, economic activities, cultural heritage, natural and semi-natural systems). One objective of the project is to generalize this methodology and explore the applicability of the KULTURisk approach to different types of natural hazards, like earthquakes, forest fires, etc.

 

The aim of the two days workshop is to present the Risk Assessment methodology developed by KULTURisk and to discuss it with the main national and European stakeholders and experts of different natural hazards.

 

The workshop was articulated into three main sessions:

1. Towards a new culture of prevention: from international DRR strategies to local implementation

2. KULTURisk methodology for assessing the benefits of prevention measures

3. From water-related hazards to other natural hazards

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KULTURisk Project: objectives and result

Pierpaolo Campostrini
CORILA

Giuliano Di Baldassarre
UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education

Session 1: Towards a new culture of prevention: from international DRR strategies to local implementation

Paola Albrito
Towards a Post-2015 Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
UNISDR Regional Office for Europe 

Luca Rossi
National strategy implementing the Hyogo Framework
Italian National Civil Protection Department 

Giuseppina Monacelli
National policy for the flood risk management plans
Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and research (ISPRA)

Francesco Baruffi
The implementation of EU Flood Directive in the Eastern Alps hydrographic district
Alto Adriatico Water Authority

Alberto Lionello, Ilaria Cavaggioni
Knowledge as a prevention factor: the local experience for the monuments of Venice; spatial planning and local risk
Superintendence of Cultural Heritage of Venice

Session 2: KULTURisk methodology for assessing the benefits of prevention measures

Silvia Torresan
Presentation of the state of the Kulturisk framework and methodology
Department of Environmental Science - Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Carlo Giupponi, Vahid Mojtahed
Presentation of the state of the Kulturisk framework and methodology
Department of Economics - Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Presentations of case studies results:

Viktor Ntegeka, Peter Salamon
Danube case study
JRC

Michele Ferri
Flood hazard and risk mapping in the Vipacco case study
Alto Adriatico Water Authority

Giovanna Grossi, Roberto Ranzi
Alternative flood hazard scenarios in the Vipava/Vipacco
University of Brescia

Brilly Mitja
Climate change impact on flooding scenarios
University of Ljubljana

Jeff Neal, Paul Bates
Carlisle case study
University of Bristol

Niall Quinn, Paul Bates, Mark Siddall
The contribution to future flood risk in the Severn Estuary from extreme sea level rise due to ice sheet mass loss
University of Bristol

Thom Bogaard, Micah Mukolwe, Giuliano Di Baldassarre
Barcelonette case study
UNESCO-IHE

Roland Olschewski
Sihl/Zurich case study
Swiss Federal Research Institute (WSL)

Session 3: From water-related hazards to other natural hazards

Kevin Fleming
MATRIX - New Multi-Hazard and Multi-Risk Assessment Method for Europe
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences

Claudio Modena
NIKER - New Integrated Knowledge based approaches to the protection of cultural heritage from Earthquake
University of Padua

Jaroslav Mysiak
CATALYST - Capacity Development for Hazard Risk Reduction and Adaption
Fondazione Enrico Mattei (FEEM)

Warner Marzocchi
Recent developments in operational use of seismic and volcanic hazards assessment
Italian National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV)

Davide Poletto
UNESCO and DRM: insights from the UNESCO Regional Bureau from Science and Culture in Venice
UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe

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