Reducing risks together: A systemic approach to reducing disaster risk in Europe

This policy brief summarises key policy learnings from the first 1.5 years of the MYRIAD_EU project. The project is designed to catalyse the paradigm shift required to move towards a multi-risk, multi-sector, systemic approach to risk assessment and management. 

The publication concludes with the following key recommendations: 

• Real-world applications are vital: We recommend efforts to widen the number of real-world detailed case studies throughout the EU, in order to gather good practices and share learning across regions.
• Terminology matters: We recommend further harmonising key terminologies related to multihazard-risk into international frameworks and promoting consistency in understanding across research-policy-practice nexus. The glossary developed in MYRIAD-EU can serve as a starting point.
• Multi-hazard data are required for evidence-based policy making: We have developed a global multi-hazard event dataset that can be used in the multirisk assessment. This supports the  EU’s evidence-based policy making and the risk and resilience knowledge portals and hubs.