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| Titel |
Risk Communication: the connection between assessment and management of changing risks |
| VerfasserIn |
Teresa Sprague, Kathrin Prenger-Berninghoff, Marie Charrière |
| Konferenz |
EGU General Assembly 2013
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Artikel
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| Sprache |
Englisch
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| Digitales Dokument |
PDF |
| Erschienen |
In: GRA - Volume 15 (2013) |
| Datensatznummer |
250072653
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| Zusammenfassung |
| Working toward effective risk mitigation strategies amidst ever-present and increasingly
changing risks requires first effective communication between assessment and management
spheres. This notion permeates the spectrum of what can be considered the physical changing
risk inputs that feed into the risk governance processes of assessment, management and
communication of risks. Close connections and overlaps between assessment and
management requires communication to serve as the crux for the close collaboration
necessary for encouraging preventative, long-term strategies for reducing disaster
risks.1
More specifically, communication of risk information plays this connective role by
informing and advising policy and decision making processes conducted by actors such as
spatial planners who receive this information. In this way, those who assess the risks
provide information to those who must manage these risks. When this one-directional
communication pathway is reciprocated, risk managers provide information to risk assessors,
enabling two-way communication amongst actors working toward risk reduction. This
communication and exchange of information enables development of strategies and
actions taken toward creating and improving risk mitigation measures within a given
territory and community. Further, management actions taken (especially for mitigative
measures) can alter the physical and social elements of the spatial context of their
territory.2
This demands an adjustment of the previous risk assessment information and communication
of the change in potential risk.
These conceptual underpinnings are addressed and presented through
explanation of an analytical framework encompassing changing risk inputs into
risk governance processes. The framework elaborates the risk communication
component and is supported by practical examples from stakeholder meetings and
site visits in the Polish and Romania case study areas of the Marie Curie ITN,
CHANGES.3
Specific examples are provided especially within the topic of mitigation through spatial
planning, as one of the risk management actors using the provided risk information to
implement effective measures. Results of example analysis indicate that, in Poland, alteration
in risk assessment methods according to the implementation of the EU Floods Directive may
be detrimental to local level management strategies. In the case of Romania, evidence
suggests that severe deficiencies exist in the communication and use of risk assessment
information especially in the formation and implementation of land use plans. Utilizing these
and other examples, the research concludes with some key points gleaned from the
combination of the both conceptual and practical approach in order to foster dialogue and
discussion toward future research. |
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