The contributions in Risks Challenging Publics, Scientists and Government look at risks in a comprehensive way, considering risks not just as a technical, social, political or economic matter, but rather as originating and challenging the various disciplines. Contextual aspects, usually defined by engineers as margin conditions, are generally taken as given and rarely discussed, but deserve much more atttention, particularly when uncertainties are large. Hence the book focuses on topics that received little attention until now, like economic aspects of disasters and land use planning as a...
The contributions in Risks Challenging Publics, Scientists and Government look at risks in a comprehensive way, considering risks not just as a techni...
This book comprises the main results of the Scenario (Support on Common European Strategy for sustainable natural and induced technological hazards mitigation) project, funded as a Specific Support Action under the VI FP. This book addresses three main needs: first, it constitutes an assessment of the situation of Europe as far as natural na-tech risks are considered; second, it suggests future research themes to be opened of widened so as to tackle new and emerging threats as well as changes in the potential response to risk governance, in order to improve the way scientific and technical...
This book comprises the main results of the Scenario (Support on Common European Strategy for sustainable natural and induced technological hazards mi...
This book explores the nexus among food, energy and water in peri-urban areas, demonstrating how relevant this nexus is for environmental sustainability. In particular it examines the effective management of the nexus in the face of the risks and trade-offs of mitigation policies, and as a mean to create resilience to climate change. The book delineates strategies and actions necessary to develop and protect our natural resources and improve the functionality of the nexus, such as: integrated management of the major resources that characterize the metabolism of a city, stronger...
This book explores the nexus among food, energy and water in peri-urban areas, demonstrating how relevant this nexus is for environmental sustainab...
Several scholars across the globe identified the present lack of high quality damage data as the main constraint to efficient risk mitigation. The need for a systematic collection of damage data in the aftermath of flood events come into light, thus the aim being the creation of complete and reliable databases. Flood damage data collected in the aftermath of a disastrous event can support a variety of actions, which include: (i) the identification of priorities for intervention during emergencies, (ii) the creation of complete event scenarios on the basis of which understanding the...
Several scholars across the globe identified the present lack of high quality damage data as the main constraint to efficient risk mitigation. The ...
