Transcript Project 1.3.1 Natural and Technological Hazards in Europe

Project 1.3.1
Natural and Technological
Hazards in Europe
Philipp Schmidt-Thomé
Contents
Summarizing final results of ESPON 1.3.1 ”Hazards”
• Examples of policy recommendations
• Planning response towards natural and technological
hazards
• Selected hazard maps
• Aggregated hazard and risk maps
• Climate change affecting natural hazards
• European Regions with specific hazard typologies
Summary of selected policy recommendations
I. Guiding principles:
1. Employ risk management as an integral and explicit
part of EU cohesion policy. Improve coordination of
policy measures at all spatial scales
2. Integration of both substantial goals and procedural
rules related to vulnerability reduction and risk
mitigation into policies and programmes
Policy recommendations II
II. EU-level instruments
1. Coordination of the use of Structural Funds for risk
management, by e.g. using criteria relevant to risk
and vulnerability to guide and support funding
through the Structural Fund objectives
2. Ensuring the effective implementation of the strategic
environmental assessment (SEA) directive;
integrating risk mitigation principles for planning into
its implementation
Policy recommendations III
III. Meso-level (national, transnational co-operation, Interreg)
Recognition of the upgraded status of risk mitigation in the
remodelled cohesion policy for the period 2007-2013,
including principles of vulnerability reduction and risk
mitigation in the programme guidelines.
Adoption of Strategic Environmental Assessment directive
(2001/42/EC) by member states, preferably in a uniform
fashion across Europe
Enhancing the use of the Water Framework Directive
(2000/60/EC) for integrating land use planning and water
resources management in support of risk management
(not only water quality) purposes
Planning response, example on risks
• Split up "risk" into the elements: hazard potential,
damage potential and coping capacity
• Framework for monitoring not only on risk but also
for monitoring the elements of risk
• Within this framework it is possible to monitor the
hazards impact and the vulnerability (damage
potential and coping capacity) of an area
• Risk monitoring thus has a major role in defining and
deciding on actions like mitigation and reaction
(preparedness, response, recovery)
Natural hazards
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Avalanches
Drought potential
Earthquakes
Extreme temperatures
Floods
Forest fires
Landslides
Storms
Storm surges
Tsunamis
Volcanic activities
Technological hazards
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Air traffic
Major accident hazards (chemical plants)
Nuclear Power plants
Oil transport, storage and handling
The making of the Forest fires map I
The making of the Forest fires map II
Resulting forest fire hazard map
Landslides
Tsunamis
Chemical production plants
Weighting of hazards – the Delphi method
Aggregated natural hazards
Aggregated technological hazards
Aggregated hazards map
Vulnerability concept
Vulnerability map
Aggregated risk map
Change of dry spell affecting drought potential
Change in precipitation affecting flood potential
Length of dry spell affecting forest fires
Hazard interactions (of highest hazard degrees)
Hazard clusters: flood and landslides
Hazard interactions in Interreg IIIB areas
1.3.1 indicators on NUTS 3 level covering the
entire ESPON 27+2 area
• 11 Natural hazard indicators
• 4 Technological hazard indicators
• 3 Aggregated hazard indicators
• 3 Vulnerability indicators
• 3 Risk indicators
• 5 Climate change indicators (not available for
remote areas)
Thank you very much for your attention!
Thanks to the HAZARDS Consortium and to the
ESPON CU for the excellent cooperation!
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