Enhancing risk management partnerships for catastrophic natural disasters in Europe

General Information

The main goal of the ENHANCE project is to develop and analyse new ways to enhance society’s resilience to catastrophic natural hazard impacts, by providing new scenarios and information in selected hazard cases in close collaboration with stakeholders, and by contributing to the development of new Multi-Sector Partnerships (MSPs) to reduce or redistribute risk. Innovation in MSPs is essential, as (ineffective) cooperation between public, private and civil society institutions often leads to failures in risk management. The ENHANCE proposal is unique as it studies the potential for new MSPs for managing different catastrophic hazards, related to heat waves, forest fires, flood, drought, storm surge, and volcanic eruptions. Key to successful partnerships is a common understanding of risks and the implications of proposed risk reduction instruments. Therefore, ENHANCE facilitates a participatory process to develop MSPs in cases studies at different geographical- and spatial scales in Europe. The main products of ENHANCE are a) a harmonised dynamic scenarios of vulnerability, exposure, and hazard at the pan-European scale, using existing information and new probabilistic approaches for multi-hazards, heat-waves, forest fires, floods, droughts, storm surges, and volcanic eruptions; b) guidelines and key features for enhancing MSP interaction in successful resilience enhancement and risk reduction, pre-tested via participatory workshops on risk-based scenarios; c) methods for linking MSPs to novel scientific risk scenarios and assessments; d) a toolbox of economic instruments and non-structural mitigation measures at the national, regional, and local levels developed in a participatory manner and aimed at assessing risk and increasing societal resilience; and e) policy recommendations to the EU and HFA signatories delivered through a dissemination platform for enhancing resilience from high political levels to local communities. ENHANCE offers a team that consists of scientific research institutes, public policy organisations including UNISDR, private sector specialists and an NGO that ensure societal relevance and the feasibility of implementation of our deliverables. Within 10 case studies public and private partners will be approached to develop MSPs and to test new methods.

EU-Programme Acronym and Subprogramme Area	FP7-ENV-2012, ENV-2012.6.4-1
Project Type	Collaborative Project
Contract Number	Grant Agreement 308438
Co-ordinator	Stichting VU-VUMC, NL

Total Eligible Costs (€)	Hereon Eligible Costs (€)	EC Funding for Hereon (€)
7.687.123	611.261	462.950

Contact Person at Hereon

Prof. Maria Manez, Climate Service Center, Phone: +49 40 22633 8408, Fax: +49 40 22633 8163 Prof. Beate Ratter, Institute for Coastal Research, KSO Phone: +49 4152 87 1527, Fax : +49 4152 87 2020 E-mail contact

Participants

Last Update: 16. April 2021