State-of-the-Art in Risk Management Technology: Implementation and Trial for Usability in Engineering Practice and Policy

• AS priority area: Environment and Risk Prevention
• Duration: 01/09/2013 - 30/11/2014
• Project webpage
• Project on the website of the Alpine Space Programme

• Lead Partner: Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management, Dep. IV/5 - Torrent and Avalanche Control Service (AT) Contact person: Florian Rudolf-Miklau, Tel.: +43(0)1 71100 7329, florian.rudolf-miklau[at]lebensministerium.at
• Autonomous Province of Bolzano - South Tyrol, Department of Hydraulic Engineering (IT) Contact person: Bruno Mazzorana, Tel.: +39 0471 414567, bruno.mazzorana[at]provincia.bz.it
• ONF International (subsidiary of Office National des Forêts) (FR) Contact person: Marie-Pierre Michaud, Tel.: +33 4 92 53 19 71, marie-pierre.michaud[at]onf.fr
• Geological Survey of Slovenia (SI) Contact person: Mitja Janža, Tel.: +386 1 2809 822, mitja.janza[at]geo-zs.si
• Irstea, Groupement de Grenoble, Unité de Recherche Erosion Torrentielle, Neige et Avalanches (FR) Contact person: Jean-Marc Tacnet, Tel.: +33 4 76 76 27 68, jean-marc.tacnet[at]irstea.fr
• Regional Government of Carinthia, Department 8 - Environment, Water and Nature Protection (AT) Contact person: Norbert Sereinig, Tel.: +43 50536 18331, norbert.sereinig[at]ktn.gv.at
• Autonomous Region of Valle d'Aosta: Department of Public Works, Soil Conservation and Public Housing, Directorate for Hydrogeological conditions of the mountain basins (IT) Contact person: Valerio Segor, Tel.: +39 0165 776604, v.segor[at]regione.vda.it
• Bern University for Applied Sciences - School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences (FR) Contact person: Massimiliano Schwarz, Tel.: ++41 31 910 21 79, massimiliano.schwarz[at]bfh.ch

Within the scope of Pr. 3 of ASP 2007-13 major innovation capacities were focused on knowledge development in Natural Hazard/Risk Management (NHRM) & Risk Governance (RG) (eg. innovation in hazard mapping/protection technology) in various funded projects (& other ETC/national-R&D initiatives). START_it_up will capitalise this knowledge pool by enhancing it into a transnational common “state-of-the-art”. This unification process becomes operational by gathering/completing the available recommendations/pre-standards/good practice, assembling the knowledge in a database, benchmarking/reviewing it among partner countries, testing the usability for engineering practice/policy and implementing it as an approved best practice/standard. Based on the well-established PP expert network the project shall pave the path for an institutionalised (a) NHRM-standardisation process (b) RG policy forum, authorised by governmental/standardisation institutions, and open this field for ASP 2014+.

• Urban development and increasing land take pose a risk

• technology transfer
• knowledge transfer
• prevention
• governance

• Reducing environmental damage
• Limitation of natural disaster impacts

Results of a project can be differentiated in outputs, outcomes and impacts of an intervention. Source:OECD Glossary of Key Terms in Evaluation and Results Based Management.

Unlike project outputs, outcomes and results cannot be described in a standardised way. Therefore, they are listed as free text:
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• START_it_up outputs on the official website of the project
• START_it_up outputs on the website of the Alpine Space Programme