Workpackages
The project is split into four work packages:
- Dissemination, comparisons of results and harmonisation.
- Risk evaluation for land, urban planning and emergency management.
- Formation and education.
- Publication of results.
Work package 1
Activity Type Dissemination, comparison of results and harmonisation
Objectives
The objective of this WP is to compare the procedures and deliverables
obtained by selected FP4 and FP5 EU projects concerning natural risks
in Greece, Italy and France, to extract the most relevant deliverables
trying to uniform them and to make them available for public use.
A further objective will be to insert data assembled and/or produced
by the project into the EU-MEDIN website.
Description of work
The objective will be pursued by joining together experts in different
fields – preferably, but not necessarily, those who have worked
in the selected projects. The meeting is meant as a joint work activity
on the selection of the EU funded projects, on the examination, comparison
and harmonisation of procedures and deliverables concerning Greece,
Southern Italy and Southern France.
- Disseminating and discussing the results obtained by EU funded
projects, in order to make specialists of each area aware about the
results attained by other areas’ specialists.
- Stimulating the development of quantitative probabilistic methodologies
of evaluation of risks and different emergency scenarios using improved
stochastic methods.
1 operative 3 days meeting
The meeting will be organised in cooperation between CRdC-AMRA and
AUTh.
Deliverables
Insertion of our data into the EU-MEDIN website
Meeting on multirisk mitigation procedures, quantification of risk parameters.
Preliminary data base of EU and national funded research projects on
natural risks since 2003
Milestones and expected result
Meeting: 19th month
Final results: A feasibility study of harmonisation (what can be harmonised?)
and an indication of the methods to pursue for harmonisation.
Dissemination of the deliverables for the test sites.
Work package 2
Activity Type Risk evaluation for land, urban planning and emergency
management
Objectives
To provide land use planners, urban planners and emergency managers
with tools for probabilistic assessment of different possible scenarios
of geological hazards and risk. To work out a report based on a critical
evaluation of existing codes for risk mitigation (e.g. EC8 for seismic
risk) with suggestions for their revision. To assess the feasibility
and level of application of seismic early warning methods to protect
European cities.
Description of work
The objective will be pursued by:
1 Workshop joining together experts who are actively working on seismic
early warning problems in different parts of the world
1 Formation course or Meeting of experts to compare procedures for a
critical evaluation of existing codes (such as EC8 for the seismic risk)
and guidelines for quantitative joint risk evaluation and improvement
of codes.
1 operative 3 days Workshop
The Workshop will be organized in cooperation between CRdC-AMRA, AUTh
and UNSA.
Contributors: officers from Civil Defence and Administrators.
The document will be implemented on the WEB site of the project.
Deliverables
Guidelines for quantitative probabilistic estimate of risks on a multirisk
approach
Workshop on seismic early warning
Recommendations to the ECRTD for future research activities on seismic
early warning
Book on seismic early warning
Milestones and expected result
The milestones are practically the results coming out of the Workshop
after 1 and 19 months.
The main expected results is to indicate a methodology for addressing
the need of planners to have a quantitative probabilistic estimate of
natural hazards and risks in any particular area to be used or cost/benefit
analysis of mitigation actions and land use plans. Similar indications
can be given for emergency scenarios to be used to plan actions during
emergency.
Work package 3
Activity Type Formation and education
Objectives
To form people able to address in a modern way the problems of both
individual and joint natural risk evaluation and to apply properly the
mitigation actions contained in the existing codes and to implement
early warning methods.. To improve school education in natural hazards
and risks using as a prototype the EduSeis project of education on seismic
risk.
Description of work
Objectives
1 Meeting with school teachers on environmental risk teaching has been
organized by UNSA at the Vienna Assembly of the European Union of Geosciences
in 2005.
Deliverables
Meeting on Education at seismology in schools
Bloc-notes of educational training for pupils in order to raise their
conscientiousness about natural hazard and risks (CD-Rom)
Website for school seismic databases and dedicated educational tools
Milestones and expected result
Meeting: 8th month
Bloc-notes of educational training for pupils: 24th month
Website: 6th month
Work package 4
Activity Type Publication of results
Objectives
To disseminate all the produced documents (revised scenarios, results
of harmonisation, guidelines for quantitative individual and joint evaluation
of natural risks, suggestions to revise and uniform existing codes,
procedures for early warning).
Description of work
Publication of a book and/or CD-Rom to pursue the objectives.
Publication of teaching material.
All the material will be printed by Doppiavoce Studio Editoriale/Napoli.
Deliverables
Guidelines for quantitative probabilistic estimate of risks on a multirisk
approach
Book on seismic early warning
Final Handbook for estimation of quantitative
Milestones and expected result
Outline of the book (after 12 months)
Selection of the teaching material to disseminate (18 months)
Expected results:
Availability of guidelines for joint quantitative evaluation of natural
risks.(preliminary after 15 months, final after 24 months)
Expert suggestions for revision and application of existing codes (after
20 months).
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