Multi-hazard and Risk-informed System for Enhanced Local and Regional Disaster Risk Management

MEDiate is a HORIZON Europe project with the main objective to contribute to improving disaster risk management and governance. The project is developing a decision-support system (DSS) for disaster risk management considering multiple interacting natural hazards and cascading impacts using a novel resilient-informed and service-oriented approach that accounts for forecasted modifications in the natural hazards, vulnerability, and exposure. The MEDiate DSS is designed to provide key disaster management actors with the ability to build accurate scenarios to model the potential impact of their mitigation and adaptation risk management actions. The scenarios, which can be customized to reflect local conditions and needs, will be based on a combination of the historical record and future projections and changes in natural hazard conditions to forecast the location and intensity of the natural hazards related disaster events and to predict their impacts, including cascading impacts, on the vulnerability of the local physical, economic and social systems. The MEDiate project involves a multi-disciplinary team of risk engineers, geophysical and meteorological scientists, social scientists, information technologists and actors in disaster management, working together to ensure that the project is properly addressing the stakeholders’ needs and the MEDiate-DSS system is supported by appropriate technology.