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Coordination of short-term and long-term mitigation measures of hydro-meteorological risks: the importance of establishing a link between emergency management and spatial planning |
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Kathrin Prenger-Berninghoff, V. Juliette Cortes, Zar Chi Aye, Teresa Sprague |
| Konferenz |
EGU General Assembly 2013
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Artikel
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Englisch
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| Digitales Dokument |
PDF |
| Erschienen |
In: GRA - Volume 15 (2013) |
| Datensatznummer |
250076711
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| Zusammenfassung |
| The management of natural hazards involves, as generally known, the four stages of the risk
management cycle: Prevention, preparedness, response and recovery. Accordingly,
the mitigation of disasters can be performed in terms of short-term and long-term
purposes. Whereas emergency management or civil protection helps to strengthen a
community’s capacity to be better prepared for natural hazards and to better respond in
case a disaster strikes, thus addressing the short-term perspective, spatial planning
serves long-term planning goals and can therefore implement long-term prevention
measures.
A purposefully applied risk mitigation strategy requires coordination of short-term and
long-term mitigation measures and thus an effective coordination of emergency management
and spatial planning. Several actors are involved in risk management and should consequently
be linked throughout the whole risk management cycle. However, these actors, partly
because of a historically fragmented administrative system, are hardly connected to
each other, with spatial planning only having a negligible role compared to other
actors1, a
problem to which Young (2002) referred to as the “problem of interplay”. In contrast,
information transfer and decision-taking happen at the same time and are not coordinated
among different actors. This applies to the prevention and preparedness phase as well as to
the recovery phase, which basically constitutes the prevention phase for the next
disaster2.
Since investments in both risk prevention and emergency preparedness and response are
considered necessary, a better coordination of the two approaches is required. In this regard,
Decision Support Systems (DSS) can be useful in order to provide support in the
decision-making aspect of risk management.
The research work currently undertaken examines the problem
of interplay in the four case study areas of the Marie Curie ITN,
CHANGES3.
The link between different risk management actors will be explored by means of exploratory
questionnaires and interviews with government agencies, local administrations, community
and research organizations on each study site. First results provided will address the general
role of spatial planning in risk management. Additionally, preliminary observations are made
in regard to the coordination of emergency preparedness and long-term spatial planning
activities. The observations consider that integration facilitates proactive strategies that aim at
preventing disaster occurrence and promote interaction between involved parties.
Finally, consideration is given to the potential use of a DSS tool to cover both aspects
of spatial planning and emergency management in the risk management cycle. |
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