Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
Risk and Vulnerability Assessment
Keywords:
Adaptation To Climate Change
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Climate Action
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Climate Change
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Climate Change Adaptation
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Climate Change Adaptation Impacts
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Climate Change Impacts
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Conflict and Development
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Disaster Management
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Disaster Preparedness
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Disaster Resilience
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Emergency Response
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Environment
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Hazard Risk Management
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Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
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Infrastructure Economics and Finance
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Infrastructure Finance
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SDG 13
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SDG 9
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Urban Development
Abstract:
Europe's risk profile and projected climate change impacts, concentration of population, and aging infrastructure and assets call for urgent action to improve resilience. While European countries are taking major steps in enhancing disaster and climate resilience, catastrophic events reveal blind spots in critical sectors that provide emergency response services. Recent disaster events revealed significant knowledge gaps and the need to better understand the risks faced by critical sectors and what actions countries can take to systematically, yet efficiently, mitigate and manage these risks. This report helps close some of these gaps by providing guidance to decision-makers and practitioners on how to make focused and smart investments to increase the disaster and climate resilience of critical sectors. First, to inform EU-wide policy discussion and knowledge base, it highlights hotspots where assets emergency response buildings such as fire stations and emergency coordination centers were destroyed or severely damaged, along with ambulances, fire trucks, and search and rescue vehicles. Focused and smart investments are needed to strengthen and adapt critical sectors in Europe to disaster and climate risks
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