KNOW-4-DRR

Enabling knowledge for disaster risk reduction in integration to climate change adaptation

Coordinatore	POLITECNICO DI MILANO    more  Organization address address: PIAZZA LEONARDO DA VINCI 32 city: MILANO postcode: 20133 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Massimo Cognome: Depau Email: send email Telefono: 390224000000
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Italy [IT]
Totale costo	1˙197˙461 €
EC contributo	992˙951 €
Programma	FP7-ENVIRONMENT Specific Programme "Cooperation": Environment (including Climate Change)
Code Call	FP7-ENV-2013-one-stage
Funding Scheme	CSA-CA
Anno di inizio	2013
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2013-06-03   -   2015-06-02

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	POLITECNICO DI MILANO  Organization address address: PIAZZA LEONARDO DA VINCI 32 city: MILANO postcode: 20133 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Massimo Cognome: Depau Email: send email Telefono: 390224000000	IT (MILANO)	coordinator	179˙096.50
2	Nome Ente NON disponibile  Organization address address: KAPITELGASSE 4-6 city: SALZBURG postcode: 5020 contact info Titolo: Mrs. Nome: Barbara Cognome: Iglseder Email: send email Telefono: 4366280000000	AT (SALZBURG)	participant	107˙775.75
3	UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY  Organization address address: JINGUMAE 5 CHOME 53-70 city: SHIBUYA KU TOKYO postcode: 150 8925 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Eric Cognome: Lin Email: send email Telefono: 492288000000	JP (SHIBUYA KU TOKYO)	participant	103˙790.00
4	ADELPHI RESEARCH GGMBH  Organization address address: Caspar Theyss Strasse 14A city: BERLIN postcode: 14193 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Janine Cognome: Göbl Email: send email Telefono: 4930890000000	DE (BERLIN)	participant	92˙983.00
5	UNIVERSITE DE SAVOIE  Organization address address: RUE MARCOZ 27 city: CHAMBERY postcode: 73011 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Blandine Cognome: Joncour Email: send email Telefono: 330480000000	FR (CHAMBERY)	participant	92˙234.00
6	HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY  Organization address address: El. Benizelou Street 70 city: ATHENS postcode: 17671 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Apostolos G. Cognome: Papadopoulos Email: send email Telefono: 302110000000	EL (ATHENS)	participant	81˙855.00
7	AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS  Organization address address: CALLE SERRANO 117 city: MADRID postcode: 28006 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Alberto Cognome: Sereno Alvarez Email: send email Telefono: 34915668852	ES (MADRID)	participant	80˙644.50
8	DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP FRANCE ASSOCIATION  Organization address address: LIEU DIT NEGRE city: TREJOULS LAUZERTE postcode: 82110 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Claire Cognome: Gordon Email: send email Telefono: 33563958234	FR (TREJOULS LAUZERTE)	participant	77˙040.00
9	CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES Y ESTUDIOS SUPERIORES EN ANTROPOLOGIA SOCIAL  Organization address address: JUAREZ 87 TLALPAN CENTRO MONEDA Y city: MEXICO DF postcode: 14000 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Pablo Cognome: Acosta Vega Email: send email Telefono: 525558000000	MX (MEXICO DF)	participant	72˙653.00
10	ACCADEMIA EUROPEA PER LA RICERCA APPLICATA ED IL PERFEZIONAMENTO PROFESSIONALE BOLZANO (ACCADEMIA EUROPEA BOLZANO)  Organization address address: VIALE DRUSO 1 city: BOLZANO postcode: 39100 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Dellantonio Cognome: Daniela Email: send email Telefono: 390471000000 Fax: 390471000000	IT (BOLZANO)	participant	57˙780.00
11	TICONUNO SRL  Organization address address: VIA MASSIMIANO 25 city: MILANO postcode: 20134 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Attilia Cognome: Cozzaglio Email: send email Telefono: 39022046602	IT (MILANO)	participant	47˙099.25

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'“Mobilizing knowledge” suggests that there is need to dynamize the context in which knowledge about risks is developed, shared, and maintained. It conveys the implicit assumption that knowledge is perhaps currently fragmented and stuck in different compartments and bodies, be they institutions, agencies, universities, research centres, communities, individuals. While with this proposal we fully agree with this assumption, we think it is time to abandon the idea of a “knowledge transfer”, as a good that can be moved from the scientific arena into policy making or into administrative practices. The questions that we wish to ask are who should know what, who actually knows, and if knowledge produced in various ways and fields is effective in achieving disaster risk reduction and climate change prevention and adaptation. Three issues seem particularly relevant to explore: - Fragmentation and separations of arenas (i.e. Scientists, Public and private agencies or organizations in the field of prevention) - Changes that have occurred in risk knowledge management strategies overtime - Knowledge management about risk in times of crisis. The main objective of this proposal is to frame a knowledge management system for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation that may be considered as a comprehensive reference for establishing, reinforcing, or revising current prevention, mitigation and adaptation strategies. Such knowledge system will embody what has been achieved in different arenas and by different social groups in the field of prevention, preparedness and adaptation. In order to do so, a circular process between scientific and technical analysis and dissemination will be developed, so as to make use of a wider expertise and reach a larger audience. We want to use some of the dissemination activities as small tests of what deem should be done “at large” for creating an effective development, sharing, and maintenance of knowledge.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

Researchers are hoping to mitigate the effects of natural disasters and climate change-induced weather hazards by improving knowledge sharing between experts in the field.

Descrizione progetto (Article)

Natural hazards such as flooding or earthquakes can have disastrous societal, environmental and economic impacts. Disaster risk reduction (DRR) is an approach to lessen hazard damage by, for example, reducing exposure, increasing preparedness and giving early warning of impending events.

Effectively implementing DRR requires widespread knowledge dissemination to international agencies, governments, disaster planners and civil society organisations. The EU-funded http://www.know4drr.polimi.it/ (KNOW-4-DRR) (Enabling knowledge for disaster risk reduction in integration to climate change adaptation) project seeks to mitigate disasters by investigating how this knowledge is created and shared.

Through workshops and seminars, KNOW-4-DRR is identifying barriers to disseminating knowledge. It is also improving bridges for sharing information across a range of players.

In addition, researchers have established living labs involving national, interregional and local decision makers in Italy, Spain and Vietnam. In these case studies, disasters in each country are used as laboratories for testing and applying disaster responses and management decisions in real-life situations.

The living labs will enable KNOW-4-DRR to build models and tools for collecting, mapping and evaluating impacts from disasters. These models will be used to build a knowledge database supporting the multidisciplinary and multi-agency work needed during the different phases of a disaster response.

Since climate change will possibly increase the severity and frequency of hazards, KNOW-4-DRR is also integrating climate change adaptation (CCA) within the broad DRR concept. CCA requires taking appropriate action, such as improving water efficiency, adapting building codes or building flood defences, in anticipation of extreme weather events.

KNOW-4-DRR will help to ensure that EU Member States, particularly those most affected by climate change, can limit the socioeconomic impact of natural disasters.