PMO-GATE - Preventing, Managing and Overcoming Natural-Hazards Risks to mitiGATE economic and social impact

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Increasing safety and resilience in the event of disasters due to natural hazards requires knowledge and awareness of risks (Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030). The general objectives of the present project are: to jointly develop an innovative methodology for the prevention, management and overcoming of multi-risk natural disasters in the Italy-Croatia Region (hereinafter IT-HR REG), and to increase the level of protection and resilience against specific natural disasters of the Region, such as river and sea floods, meteorological tsunamis and earthquakes.
The proposed approach is based on integrating risk assessment, prevention, preparedness and response actions against relevant natural hazards, using as much available data and results from previous studies as possible, avoiding duplication of studies past and present. The three pillars of the approach are:
- capitalization of the wealth of skills available in the IT-HR REG in the management of natural hazards;
- definition of probabilistic scenarios with detailed analyzes of territorial vulnerabilities in compliance with the Community legislation governing the Strategic Environmental Assessment;
- effective communication strategies that increase awareness and perception in the population and public authorities, through a two-way conversation between IT-HR REG and members of the concerned community (EPA).
The approach proposed by PMO-GATE is that of a collaboration between neighboring nations, in the belief that promoting a unified, multidisciplinary and integrated methodology to address common challenges for common challenges can lead to significant changes.
Multi-risk methodologies and maps are currently already available in the literature, as described in the section "Building on the existence knowledge".
The approach proposed in PMO-GATE is original for two reasons:
- data and risk plans will be integrated across borders with a bottom-up approach respectful of the real IT-HR territorial challenges, ie taking into account multi-risks at urban, extra-urban and rural levels;
- both the hazard deriving from climatic effects (floods, meteo-tsunami) and that due to seismic factors and therefore not linked to the climate will be analyzed simultaneously in the same area.
The final results will be a risk management plan aimed at overcoming emergency conditions with the least possible social and economic impact, and the development of early warning systems to improve safety and resilience.
Therefore, in general, this project will allow to prevent, manage and overcome natural risks, to protect human lives and socio-economic and socio-cultural heritage.

INGV is a partner in the PMO-GATE project and its contribution will lead to a better understanding of the tsunami and meteotsunami hazards on the eastern and western coasts of the Adriatic. The activity of INGV within the project will allow to obtain a complete picture of the tsunami and meteo-tsunami activity in the past, in order to identify which are the Adriatic coastal areas most affected by these phenomena. The acquired knowledge will contribute to the validation of tsunami hazard studies.

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ABSTRACT

Enhancing safety and resilience for disasters due to natural hazards requires risks knowledge and awareness (Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030).
The overall objectives of the present project are: to jointly develop an innovative methodology for preventing, managing and overcoming multi-hazard natural disasters in the involved Italy-Croatia NUTS (from here on IT-HR NUTS), and to increase the level of protection and resilience against natural disasters specific to the IT-HR NUTS, such as river and sea floods, weather tsunamis, and earthquakes.
The proposed approach is based on the integration among risk evaluation, prevention, preparedness and response actions against relevant natural hazards using as much as possible data and results available from previous studies, avoiding duplication of past and existing studies. The three pillars of the approach are:
- capitalization of the available heritage of expertise of IT-HR NUTS in natural hazards management;
- definition of probabilistic scenarios with detailed analysis of the territorial vulnerabilities in the respect of the community legislation governing the Strategic Environmental Assessment;
- effective communication strategies that increase awareness and perception in population and public agencies, through a two-way conversation between IT-HR NUTS and affected community members (EPA).
A cross-border approach is necessary to foster a unified methodology to common challenges, in the conviction that the proposed cross-border, multidisciplinary, and integrated partnerships will achieve tangible changes.
Multi-risk methodologies and maps are available, as described in the "Building on the existence knowledge" section.
The proposed approach is original for two reasons:
- data and risk plans will be integrated on a cross-border level with a bottom-up approach respectful of the real IT-HR territorial challenges, namely taking into account peculiar multi-hazards at the urban, extra-urban, and rural level.
- climate induced hazards (floods, meteo-tsunamis) will be combined with non-climate induced seismic vulnerability.
The final outputs will be: a plan of risk management aimed at overcoming the emergency conditions with the least possible social and economic impact, and the development of early warning systems to enhance safety and resilience.
Globally, the present project will allow to prevent, manage and overcome natural hazard risks, safe-guard human lives and socio-economic and the socio-cultural heritage.

INGV is a partner in the PMO GATE project and it will contribute to the knowledge on tsunami hazard along both the Eastern and Western Adriatic coasts. The INGV research will provide a complete picture of tsunamis and meteo-tsunami activity occurred in the past, in order to identify the portions of the Adriatic coasts most affected by these events. The knowledge achieved could be a fundamental contribution for the validation of tsunami hazard studies.

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