Risk assessment approaches in Asia
Manzul K. Hazarika, Ph.D. Director, Geoinformatics Center Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand, presenting the Risk Assessment Approaches in Asia.
Kategória: KNtoolbox
Call for solutions
In the context of the FIRE-IN project, in which KEMEA is actively involved as a partner, we have prepared two questionnaires (one for technology providers and one for first responders), which we hope you will find interesting and dedicate a few minutes to fill in.
FIRE-IN is a networking project, which aims to the identification of first responders’ challenges in their everyday operations and solutions (research projects and publications, standards, guidelines, best practices, technological innovations), which can address and cover these challenges.
Our intention is to receive feedback from both technology providers and first responders regarding their view on technological innovations and standards, how these two domains can enhance disaster management capacities, if and to what extent they cover challenges in responders’ everyday operations, as well as future technological trends and expected developments in disaster management solutions.
For this purpose, we have prepared the following two questionnaires, one dedicated to technology providers and another one dedicated to practitioners. In the questionnaires you will find a short description of the project and an introduction to the topic of the questionnaire.
We kindly ask you to fill in the respective questionnaire, taking into consideration the type of organization you are working for, until 31.01.2022. Both questionnaires are anonymous and no personal information will be gathered, required and further processed.
Combined Threats of the Natural Hazards and Smart Systems
82% of the survey responders consider most emerging trends of combined threats related to the natural disasters and disruption of the critical infrastructure, reports the security and safety policy expert Mrs Galya Terzieva from the International Security and Emergency Management Institute (Slovakia).
Health threats and non-linear connectivity with natural disasters are placed in the second position with 68% of the answers. Biological threats(including also pandemics) are part of combined hazards. Either public or social disorder refers to any form of public violation like terrorism or extremism in 15% of selected choices; however, according to respondents, in 36% of cases, the natural events are causing biological and health emergencies. On exploring the most frequent agents causing disasters, 73% of the responses mentioned extraordinary natural events. Actors ranked the smartening the social system, CBRN and cyber drivers of disasters and emergencies are counted on average between 26 and 36% of the answers.
Case Studies: an integrated safety and security culture
The risks threatening the modern societies have become increasingly complex and generally require cross-sectoral cooperation due to reduced security as a whole. The global trends concerning climate change, mobilisation, conflicts, forced migration, and transferrable forms of violation are also linked to social media and citizens‘ mobilisation/awareness. The widespread communicable airborne diseases heavily impact European societies‘ protection efforts. The increased number of multi-facet disasters, incidents and forms of disorder and interruption threatened the sustainable and stable delivery of the citizens‘ services, supply of goods, medicines, health and social care services, and utilities.
Download the report here: D_3_2_CRISPRO-WP2-case-studies_25122021_FINAL-AnNEX.pdf.
CRISPRO partners collected and analyses 22 case studies about disasters: extreme natural events, climate change, technological failure combined with the stationary chemical hazards and sociogenic behavioural stress, CBRN-communicable deceases related events, and violation events triggered by industrialisation and smartening of the systems and communities.
Analysed cases study demonstrates a multiple-threats approach is needy. Therefore, learning from practical experience and investing in prevention and learning from others shall be critical knowledge-based issues for gaining greater resilience of the societies.
Interoperability of early warning mechanisms is required to develop a new integrated safety and security culture, which is the centre of the societal resilience concept.
The best practices are outlined as the CRISPRO benchmarking approach to support decision-makers to create safety for societies and citizens.
Mapping trends of multi-hazards
The International Survey Report gathers results from the mapping of the best models, scenarios, and tools to understand social and economic constraints and opportunities facing households, businesses, and governments that have centralised the planning for risk and disaster risk management. In addition, experiences from past events are important to manage, organise, and invest in the current events to mitigate the risk in the future. One of the main goals is to complement the community governance and resilience measures for emergency, preparedness and disaster management and link prevention with financial and policy decisions to management interventions. We will work the tools for planning and re-considering on through moving up and down the cause-effect line to easily elucidate the nature and magnitude of the interactions and disaster effects:
- To map simultaneous, cascading, even disconnected, but temporally subsequent, hazards or threats complicate organisational responses.
- To develop a comparative set of approaches to addressing the important challenges to modern civil protection.
- To provide knowledge for the development of the online risk assessing tool;
- To stress on the interdependency of modern threats/risks;
- To focus on the need for economic efficiency;
- To promote adjustment to changing nature of communication.
- To examine the challenges in the context of community response practices and high-impact events driving system adaptations;
- To link the system adaptations with political and economic windows of opportunity to determine changes in structural and non-structural prevention measures.
Risk Assessment Tool Report
CrisPro project aims to develop a risk assessment tool for assessment of the threats to gaining adequate knowledge on how to mitigate risks by investing in capital infrastructure, soft regulation changes, amendments of community habits, changing the economic profile, raising more quality assurance requirements to industries transport and chemical industry, farmers and managers of critical, strategic and soft infrastructure.
The tool shall guide the policymaker, decision-makers and crisis managers, private companies, scientists and NGOs on working together to make societies resilient to global trends such as climate change, urbanisation, industrialisation, and smartening of the infrastructure and utilities, trading and health issues.
Risk assessment in the Czech Republic
Challenging the Arctic Opportunities
Even the most remote regions are today being used for natural resources extraction, transport, tourism and other economic purposes.
In the middle of the race to exploit the now availablecommodities the preparedness to emergency situations is often lagging behind.
Mr Hannu Rantanen, a senior research scientist, presents how the disasters in the Artic are triggered by the adverse conditions and due to the basic coping skills in these circumstances.
Challenging the Arctic Opportunities
Even the most remote regions are today being used for natural resources extraction, transport, tourism and other economic purposes.
In the middle of the race to exploit the now availablecommodities the preparedness to emergency situations is often lagging behind.
Mr Hannu Rantanen, a senior research scientist, presents how the disasters in the Artic are triggered by the adverse conditions and due to the basic coping skills in these circumstances.
Risk Mapping Method in the Czech Republic
Are you interested in learning how to identify the risks of hazards in your country or region? The People Protection Institute in the Czech Republic uses a risk mapping process. The manifestations of different types of hazards interact with the area’s vulnerability and the preparedness of intervention units. The methodology has been developed in collaboration with the University of Ostrava academic workers. Lenka Brumarová from the faculty of security engineering guides you in the following presentation through the steps of risk identification and assessment. The threat analyses are based on the cumulation of multiple risk holders(refinement coefficients) and multiple hazards in the respective territory. To determine the degree of risks, you get a hazard map.