Good Practices in Multi-Hazard Scenarios

This is the first ROADMAP thematic paper, and it aims at identifying good practices in multi-hazard risk scenarios. Therefore, the paper focuses on concurrent hazardous events, i.e. different (independent) hazards threatening a given (common) area, and related impacts that a selected number of countries have had to face, in particular over the past two years, to single out designed and implemented good practices. This will provide the readers with a comprehensive, although of course not exhaustive, critical analysis of how DRR and DRM can be improved in a multi-hazard risk context.

ROADMAP (European observatory on disaster risk and crisis management best practices) is a project funded by the EU under the UCPM-2020-KN-AG call. The project is carried out by a partnership of highly specialised institutions from Italy (The Consortium Italian Centre for Risk Reduction - CI3R and the Italian Civil Protection Department - ICPD), Portugal (Association for the Development of Industrial Aerodynamics - ADAI) and Norway (University of Stavanger - UiS).

The main goal of the project is to establish a European Doctrine on disaster risk and crisis management funded on the cooperation of scientific communities and disaster risk management (DRM) authorities. In this light, ROADMAP will contribute to increase access to information on DRM and disaster risk reduction (DRR) by systematically collecting, reviewing, and analysing past and ongoing experiences. To reach its main goal, ROADMAP activities foresee the identification of good practices, successful stories and lessons learnt to make them available and us able to the communities of DRM and DRR practitioners to further increase their understanding of DRM solutions,

In compliance with the United Nations’ Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030. The findings of the project are disseminated through periodical bulletins, webinars and three thematic papers, each focusing on a selected relevant topic. The thematic papers will feed into another relevant project’s output, the web tool Solutions Explorer. In addition, mainly drawing from the analysis carried out in the thematic papers, a Vision Paper to the DG ECHO is also included among the products as the final step of the project. The Vision Paper aims at setting the baseline for the creation of a European Doctrine on disaster risk and crisis management.