RECIPE

Overview

Description

The ‘Reinforcing civil protection capabilities into multi-hazard risk assessment under climate change’ (RECIPE) project seeks to develop operational recommendations and tools to reinforce civil protection, emergency management, and risk planning for different natural hazards across Europe, simultaneously addressing the impacts of climate change. This is achieved through an integrated risk-management approach, and exchange of lessons learned and best practices. 

By combining multi-hazard (e.g. flood, storm, avalanche, rock-fall, and landslide) expertise, both in research and in practice, the project identifies the main impacts of climate change for risk management. The interaction between prevention, preparedness, and response actions in projected climate change scenarios is analysed, involving active participation of practitioners and other users. Civil protection requirements for tackling new risk-management challenges related to the impacts of climate change are then identified accordingly. 

Transferable guidelines on these requirements are created to incorporate the projected multi-risk impacts of climate change into operational decision support systems used for risk management. Complementary tools are also developed at pilot site-level to reinforce civil protection capabilities.  

The results are actively disseminated into civil protection systems, while project workshops promote knowledge exchange in existing networks to reinforce European landscapes’ resilience to natural hazards. 

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