INTERREG III B CADSES PROJECT BOOK - Infocooperare

MONITORHazard Monitoring for Risk Assessment and Risk Communicationwww.monitor-cadses.orgProject DescriptionThe infrastructure in mountainous areas or regionswith seismic activity is greatly threatened by hazardssuch as landslides, avalanches or earthquakes.MONITOR offers a basis for a standardisedrisk management of land-use activities threatenedby natural hazards. The project‘s target groups andtheir regions vary in their risk exposure and theirhazard potentials. MONITOR takes into account abroad variety of local and regional natural hazardsand does not only focus on one hazard category.MONITOR deals with hazard monitoring and riskmanagementENVIRONMENTEarly warning and risk evaluation monitoring is indispensablein risk management. Prevention of damagehas to be correlated with land-use planning.In the project the methodological basis of preventivemeasures will be provided by risk analyses: Forthis MONITOR uses an integrative approach byconsidering the viewpoints of all relevant groupswhich can be seen as an important baseline for riskcommunication.The most important stakeholders identified are politicians,administrative bodies, experts, the directlyaffected population and the media. MONITORwill use synergies of existing knowledge and communicationpotentials and integrate activities atdifferent organisational levels for interdisciplinaryrisk management. It will improve the methodologyof risk analysis and the regulations for risk communicationand thus support the entire process ofrisk evaluation and especially risk communicationthrough a participatory approach. This should leadto transnationally-accepted standards of risk assessmentand communication.Results and EffectsAs a fundamental result, reports and documentationon methods dealing with existing risks inthreatened regions will be developed. A regionalhazard matrix showing the relation between hazardpotential and actual land-use activities in aqualitative way will be generated. Within this matrix,risk combinations of several hazard processesversus exposure structures can be displayed. Duringthe project, a multilingual glossary with riskterms and risk governance will be developed. Moreover,a technical guide concerning the methodologyof data collection practices as well as riskcommunication tools and regional risk communicationchains are proposed results of MONITOR.Finally, instructional material such as tutorials andonline courses will be produced. Evaluation reportsand best practice models of terrestrial and remoterisk monitoring tools and improvement of temporalmeasurements in the way of risk management(evacuation, blockades) will round off the project’soutcome.DurationStart ....................................................... 01/2006End ......................................................... 12/2007Budget (EUR)Total Budget ....................................1,552,700.00thereof ERDF ......................................826,350.00EU Regions/Member StatesNon EU Member StatesLead PartnerProject Partner0 200 kmLead PartnerAustrian Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environmentand Water ResourcesForestry SectionMarxergasse 2A-1030 ViennaAUSTRIAContact PersonMr. Hubert SiegelTel +43 1 711000 7104Fax +43 1 71100 2398E-Mail hubert.siegel@lebensministerium.atProject PartnersAustriaAgricultural Research and Education Centre Raumberg-Gumpenstein,IrdningLower Austrian Regional Government, TullnAustrian Federal Railways, Railnet Austria Inc., ViennaBulgariaNational Forestry Board, SofiaCzech RepublicCD - Telematika a.s., PragueGreeceRegion of Western Greece, PatrasItalyAutonomous Province of Bolzano - South Tyrol, Kardaun (BZ)Veneto Region, VeniceSloveniaTorrent and Erosion Control Service, LjubljanaMEASURE 4.2136INTERREG III B CADSES / PROJECT BOOK