- Title
- Natural disaster risks and risk assessment in South East Europe
- Abstract
- South East Europe is highly exposed and vulnerable to natural hazards. Both exposure and vulnerabilities have risen in the last few decades. In order to address risks posed by these two factors, governments and the international community have undertaken an increasing number of disaster risk reduction (DRR) initiatives in the last decade. However, many of these efforts are based upon a limited understanding of disaster risks. This study attempts to analyze the available analysis and data in this area. It also evaluates capacities in risk assessment and information management in the region and provides recommendations concerning addressing the needs in risk assessment and identification and prioritization of follow-up actions. The report is produced in support of the South East Europe Disaster Risk Mitigation and Adaptation Programme (SEEDRMAP), for which UNDP, WMO, ISDR, and World Bank have collaborated in their respective areas of comparative advantage. This study begins with a characterization of risks in South East Europe, with an emphasis upon those occurring at regional level. The section begins by examining hazard exposure, for which data is much more readily available and reliable, and then covers disaster impacts and vulnerabilities. It utilizes data collected by UNDP in the course of elaborating the IPA Beneficiary Needs Assessments during 2010-11 (also conducted in support of SEEDRMAP), as well as available analyses (when possible conducted at regional level). The latter include works devoted to specific hazards (notably landslides, earthquakes, and forest fires), outputs of various donor projects, an initial risk assessment conducted in 2009 for the SEEDRMAP Initiative, and National Communications of the governments of South East Europe under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). In the course of characterizing risks, the study indicates where appropriate significant gaps in risk information and analysis. The second section of the report continues with an assessment of what is needed to improve risk assessment in the countries of South East Europe. As no existing in-depth analysis on this was available, in the spring and summer of 2011 a series of workshops in each of the project countries were conducted by the Global Risk Identification Programme (GRIP) on Scoping and Planning National Risk Assessments (NRA). The results of group work in these workshops, together with capacity assessments conducted by CADRI in the spring of 2011, provide the basis for national profiles of risk assessment capacities in this section. The study concludes by bringing the national profiles together to identify common needs of South East European countries in risk assessment and provide recommendations to address them.
- Publication Date
- May 1, 2013, 5 p.m.
- Category
- Geoscientific Information
- information pertaining to earth sciences. Examples: geophysical features and processes, geology, minerals, sciences dealing with the composition, structure and origin of the earth s rocks, risks of earthquakes, volcanic activity, landslides, gravity information, soils, permafrost, hydrogeology, erosion
- Regions
- Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia
- Approved
- No
- Published
- Yes
- Featured
- No
- DOI
- None
- Attribution
- None
- Name
- Andy (andy)
- Position
- Organization
- Location
- Voice
- Fax
- Identification Image
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- Spatial Extent
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- Projection System
- EPSG:4326
- Extension x0
- None
- Extension x1
- None
- Extension y0
- None
- Extension y1
- None
- Language
- English
- Supplemental Information
- coastal_flood, strong_wind, drought, urban_flood, extreme_heat, wildfire, landslide
- Name
- Stu Fraser (stu)
- sfraser@worldbank.org
- Position
- Senior Disaster RIsk Management Specialist
- Organization
- World Bank
- Location
- Voice
- Fax
- Link Online
- /documents/802
- Metadata Page
- /documents/802/metadata_detail
- Online Link
- /documents/802/download
- Name
- Andy (andy)
- Position
- Organization
- Location
- Voice
- Fax