A model for communication and management support of natural hazards risk

Babič, Anže (author), Lazar Sinković, Nuša (author), Dolšek, Matjaž (author)

Natural disasters are still quite frequent throughout Europe but rare at a given site. As a result, the stakeholders responsible for mitigating natural hazard risk often have false perceptions about the risks, which tend to slow the development of management plans and owner actions to increase natural hazard resilience. To address this issue, this paper introduces a model for communication and management support of natural hazards risk to stakeholders, who are often non-experts in the field. The model incorporates a seven-grade scale consistent with European labelling of product energy consumption. However, the proposed implementation also includes a systematic distinction between long-term and short-term risk tolerance, enabling the introduction of a time-dependent grade reduction in cases where the estimated risk is intolerable in the long term. This approach helps improve stakeholders' perception of natural hazards risk while incentivising actions that help reduce that risk. The gradual reduction of grades over time enables systematically introducing increasingly detrimental actions if the risk is long-term intolerable, thus strengthening the risk management process.

• Language: English
• Keywords: civil engineering, engineering structures, earthquake engineering, natural hazards, natural risk, tolerated risk, risk grading, long-term tolerable risk, short-term tolerable risk
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FGG - Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2023
• Number of pages: 18 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 90, art. 103672
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-148692
• UDC: 624.042.7
• ISSN on article: 2212-4209
• DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2023.103672
• COBISS.SI-ID: 148455171
• Publication date in RUL: 29.08.2023

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: International journal of disaster risk reduction
• Publisher: Elsevier
• ISSN: 2212-4209
• COBISS.SI-ID: 519686169

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: gradbeništvo, gradbene konstrukcije, potresno inženirstvo

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: P2-0185
• Name: Potresno inženirstvo

• Funder: Other - Other funder or multiple funders
• Funding programme: Republic of Slovenia, Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning
• Project number: 2550-20-530001