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Project
Goal |
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MOVE intends to provide
policy makers, public administrators, researchers, educators and
other stakeholders with an improved generic framework and methodology
for the measurement and assessment of vulnerability to natural hazards
in Europe's regions. The methods developed by MOVE and tested in
selected hazard and spatial contexts will improve knowledge, methodologies,
and integration strategies for the management of natural hazard
vulnerability in Europe. MOVE aims to test the usefulness of the
framework by integrating stakeholders and end-users at an early
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Expected
Results |
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- MOVE will produce a conceptual framework that is independent
of scale and hazard type. It analyses physical (technical),
environmental, economic, social, cultural and institutional
vulnerability - all measured for specific hazards and at different
geographical scales.
- Methodologies will be tested in case study regions on vulnerable
elements and appropriate hazard types. Floods, temperature extremes,
droughts, landslides, earthquakes, wildfires and storms will
be studied.
- The generic framework, data analysis and applicability tests
will result in a standard approach to vulnerability assessment
in Europe.
- Stakeholders will be consulted systematically by means of
focus group meetings in order to understand their needs and
to enable MOVE to draw attention to the practical value of its
methodologies.
- A "Handbook for Vulnerability Assessment to Natural Hazards
in Europe" will be developed. This final MOVE product will
provide an overview of the main research results and will include
the procedures for the different assessment methods recommended
in order to measure susceptibilities in different contexts of
hazards and European environments. It will underline the competencies
of European research in disaster risk management. It will outline
the different methods and techniques as well as the indicators
that are most appropriate to measure and assess vulnerability
in Europe.
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Role of Rupprecht
Consult |
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Rupprecht Consult leads the
MOVE workpackage "Validation and Dissemination of Outcomes".
In this role, In addition to overseeing the general dissemination
work within MOVE, Rupprecht Consult will organise and moderate mid-term
and final validation workshops. These events are viewed as a crucial
project activity to test and validate (with project-external stakeholders
and end-users) the applicability of MOVE results in a workshop setting.
Towards the end of the project, Rupprecht Consult will facilitate
the organisation of open local outreach workshops to disseminate
the results of the project in selected locations across Europe. |
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Project Duration |
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2008-2011 (36 months)
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Project co-ordinator |
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University of Florence, Italy
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Organisation
/ Project Partners |
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- University of Florence (coordinator), Italy
- BRGM, French Geological Survey , Orléans, France
- University of Salzburg, Centre for Geoinformatics, Austria
- EURAC (European Academy, Institute for Applied Remote Sensing),
Bozen/Bolzano, Italy
- Atlas Innoglobe Tervezö és Szolgáltató
Kft., Budapest, Hungary
- King's College, University of London, United Kingdom
- Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Oslo, Norway
- Rupprecht Consult Forschung und Beratung GmbH, Cologne, Germany
- Technical University of Catalonia, International Centre for
Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE), Barcelona, Spain
- United Nations University, Institute for Environment and Human
Security, Bonn, Germany
- University of Dortmund, Germany
- University of Oporto, Portugal
- University of Vienna, Austria
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Project Website |
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www.move-fp7.eu |
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Further information |
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Frank Wefering
+49 221 60605513 |
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MOVE Flyer
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