Multi-hazard Infrastructure Risk Assessment for Climate Adaptation (MIRACA)

With extreme weather events on the rise across the continent, decision makers are realizing quickly that Europe’s critical infrastructure is not equipped to handle the effects of climate change. In response to increasing focus on the importance to upgrade and adapt Europe’s critical infrastructure, the MIRACA project aims to assess the multi-hazard risk to Europe’s critical infrastructure and develop an evidence-based decision support toolkit to help authorities and infrastructure managers develop strategies and adaptation solutions.
The project’s mission is to empower public authorities and critical infrastructures managers to pinpoint risk-prone areas and develop affordable adaptation strategies to mitigate the physical and economic damages that can result from climate change.
Existing methods for climate risk analysis are not tailored to the complexities of Critical  Infrastructures, as they fail to account for systems interdependencies properly and contain key data gaps.

The project aim also at developing new model capabilities to fully appraise the benefits for people and businesses of climate-resilient infrastructure systems.