SCORCH

Overview

Description

The Supportive Risk Awareness and Communication to Reduce Impact of Cross-Border Heatwaves (SCORCH) project aimed to reduce the impact of heat waves on vulnerable urban populations through improved risk communication strategies.

Extreme temperatures are characterised as climate hazards that include heat waves and cold waves, and extreme winter conditions. In the EU and Neighbourhood countries, heat waves have both a high morbidity and high mortality rate.

Such events are largely cross-border phenomena and, ideally, require collective response and preparedness to reduce the cost and health effects, as well as the impact on communities. The SCORCH project measured risk perception and behaviour in communities through surveys and fostered a culture of prevention and cooperation for disaster risk reduction.

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