Tools
Tools
Komendantova, N. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2568-6179, Mrzyglocki, R., Mignan, A., Khazai, B., Wenzel, F., Patt, A., & Fleming, K.
(2014).
MATRIX Results II and Reference Report.
Deliverable 8.5, FP7 MATRIX Project - New Multi-Hazard and Multi-Risk Assessment Methods for Europe (January 2014)
Abstract
As populations increase, especially in urban areas, the number of people affected by natural hazards is growing, as many regions of the world subject to multiple hazards. Although the volume of geophysical, sociological and economic knowledge is expanding, so are the losses from natural catastrophes. The slow transfer of appropriate knowledge from theory to practice may be due to the difficulties inherent in the communication process from science to policy-making, including perceptions by stakeholders from disaster mitigation practice regarding the usability of any developed tools. As scientific evidence shows, decision-makers are faced with the challenge of not only mitigating against single hazards and risks, but also multiple risks, which must include the consideration of their interrelations. As the multi-hazard and risk concept is a relatively young area of natural risk governance, there are only a few multi-risk models and the experience of practitioners as to how to use these models is limited. To our knowledge, scientific literature on stakeholders' perceptions of multi-risk models is lacking. In this document, we identify the perceptions of two decision-making tools, which involve multi-hazard and multi-risk. The first one is a generic, multi-risk framework based on the sequential Monte Carlo method to allow for a straightforward and flexible implementation of hazard interactions which may occur in a complex system. The second is a decision-making tool that integrates directly input from stakeholders by attributing weights to different components and constructing risk ratings. Based on the feedback from stakeholders, we found that interest in multi-risk assessment is high, but that its application remains hampered by the complexity of the processes involved.
| Item Type: | Other |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Multi-hazard; Multi-risk; Decision support models; Stakeholders; Stakeholder's perceptions; Risk governance |
| Research Programs: | Risk & Resilience (RISK) Risk, Policy and Vulnerability (RPV) |
| Bibliographic Reference: | Deliverable 8.5, FP7 MATRIX Project - New Multi-Hazard and Multi-Risk Assessment Methods for Europe (January 2014) |
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| Depositing User: | IIASA Import |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Jan 2016 08:51 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Aug 2021 17:24 |
| URI: | https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/11215 |
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