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The price of safety: costs for mitigating and coping with Alpine hazards |
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C. Pfurtscheller, A. H. Thieken |
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Englisch
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1561-8633
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In: Natural Hazards and Earth System Science ; 13, no. 10 ; Nr. 13, no. 10 (2013-10-22), S.2619-2637 |
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250085538
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 copernicus.org/nhess-13-2619-2013.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| Due to limited public budgets and the need to economize, the analysis of
costs of hazard mitigation and emergency management of natural hazards
becomes increasingly important for public natural hazard and risk management.
In recent years there has been a growing body of literature on the estimation
of losses which supported to help to determine benefits of measures in terms
of prevented losses. On the contrary, the costs of mitigation are hardly
addressed. This paper thus aims to shed some light on expenses for mitigation
and emergency services. For this, we analysed the annual costs of mitigation
efforts in four regions/countries of the Alpine Arc: Bavaria (Germany), Tyrol
(Austria), South Tyrol (Italy) and Switzerland. On the basis of PPP values
(purchasing power parities), annual expenses on public safety ranged from
EUR 44 per capita in the Free State of Bavaria to EUR 216 in the Autonomous
Province of South Tyrol. To analyse the (variable) costs for emergency
services in case of an event, we used detailed data from the 2005 floods in
the Federal State of Tyrol (Austria) as well as aggregated data from the 2002
floods in Germany. The analysis revealed that multi-hazards, the occurrence
and intermixture of different natural hazard processes, contribute to
increasing emergency costs. Based on these findings, research gaps and
recommendations for costing Alpine natural hazards are discussed. |
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