Florence
Italy

Evidence for Policy School – Disaster Risk Management

Organizer(s) University of Florence European Commission Joint Research Centre European Commission’s Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG ECHO) Centro Studi Sistema Protezione Civile – Istituto Italiano di Resilienza International Network for Government Science Advice
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To help researchers to have more impact and policymakers to use evidence for policy solutions, the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) and Directorate General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid (DG ECHO), in collaboration with the Italian Civil Protection Department, the International Network for Government Science Advice (INGSA) and the University of Florence (UNIFI), organise:

Evidence for Policy School - Disaster Risk Management:

Science and technology in support of decision making, in an environment of uncertainty.

Masterclasses are run throughout two days in five parallel sessions.

Prevention & migration

  • Disaster prevention and climate adaptation: how to ensure synergies?

  • Integrated multi-risk assessment and planning – complexity thinking and systemic risk

  • Science for disaster risk management – liability of the scientific world

Preparedness & response

  • Emergency Management Priorities

  • Situational awareness and information management in emergencies

  • Communicating risk and engagement of communities in DRM policy making

Hands-on & case stories

  • Hands-on Crisis Management tools?

  • How to brief your Minister on international disasters?

  • Monitoring and early warning for disaster risk reduction

  • Case study: policy making in a scenario of flash flood in an

  • Data visualisation for evidence-informed policy making: a hands-on approach

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