CONHAZ session at the EGU 2012 General Assembly
The CONHAZ Consortium is holding a session entitled 'The Costs of Natural Hazards' at the EGU General Assembly 2012 in Vienna, Austria, 22 – 27 April 2012.
This session will take place on Friday, 27 April 2012. For more details on the programme, see the EGU Meeting Organizer.
Session "NH9.3 The Costs of Natural Hazards"
Conveners: H. Kreibich, L. Bouwer, R. Schwarze
Cost assessments of the overall economic impacts of natural hazards, costs of
prevention and responses to natural hazards supply crucial information for
decision support and policy development in the fields of natural hazard
management and climate change adaptation planning. However, the significant
diversity in methods that are currently applied and terminology used in costs
assessments of different natural hazards and impacted sectors make it difficult
to establish comprehensive, robust and reliable cost figures, and also hinder
comparison of costs across countries, across hazards and across impacted
sectors.
This session is supported by the EU FP7 project CONHAZ– Costs of Natural
Hazards (http://conhaz.org/) and aims to
review current knowledge on methods for assessing individual cost types (such
as direct damages to housing, indirect losses in the macro-economy, as well as
costs of risk reduction) and aims to show how these methods are used in the
context of various natural hazards (e.g. floods, droughts, alpine hazards,
coastal hazards). We welcome submissions in the areas of assessing these
various types of damage induced by natural hazards. Also, we are interested in
contributions that focus on the cost-effectiveness or efficiency of risk
reduction to natural hazards and adaptation to increasing weather risks that
are due to climate change. Presentations are welcome for instance on data
collection, model development, validation, uncertainty analysis, risk
assessment frameworks as well as presentations about the application of damage
models in case studies. Also, presentations are welcome on the experiences in
the assessment of direct and indirect costs of projects aimed at reduction of
natural hazard risks, including climate adaptation measures.
It is foreseen to publish a special issue of selected papers with the journal
NHESS (Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences) of the EGU.
