Enhancing resilience of communities and territories facing natural and na-tech hazards (ENSURE)

Description:

The overall objective of ENSURE is to structure vulnerability assessment model(s) in a way that different aspects of physical, systemic, social and economic vulnerability will be integrated as much as possible in a coherent framework. The ENSURE approach starts from the recognition that for all considered hazards most of damages and most of vulnerabilities arise from the territory, including artefacts, infrastructures and facilities. The project assessed the state of the art in different fields related to various vulnerability aspects as they have been tackled in Europe and internationally. The core of the project consisted in the integration of already existing models to assess vulnerability with new ones regarding those aspects that had been neglected. The research objective was therefore to achieve progress with respect to each individual sector of vulnerability and to enhance the capability of assessing interconnections among them in a dynamic way, identifying driving forces of vulnerability, that make communities change for the good or for the worse as far as their ability to cope with extreme events is concerned.

Project information

Lead

BRGM, France (BRGM) Prof. H. Modaressi

Partners

University of Naples (UNINA), Italy; International Institute for Geo-information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), Netherlands; University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland; Harakopio University of Athens (HUA), Greece; Tel Aviv University (TAU), Israel; Middlesex University (MDX), United Kingdom; T6 Ecosystems srl (T6 ECO), Italy; Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI), Italy; Potsdam Institut fuer Klimafolgenforschung (PIK), Germany

Source of funding

FP 7