Improve information provision for disaster management: MONITOR II, EU project

Management of natural hazards constitutes a common challenge in all country of the world. Until now, neither hazard mapping nor contingency planning have been transnationally coordinated and defined. These gaps will be tackled in MonitorII project (founded by the EU - South East Transnational Cooperation Program) with the development of a common methodology about risk assessment and risk management. The project partnership has so far carried out the following activities and achieved the following results: review of best practices in hazard mapping and contingency plans; definition of information needs and information flows in different phases of risk management; definition of novel concepts for the creation of simplified scenario models in the process, damage and intervention domain. In the project will be developed a Continuous Situation Awareness system, a software that support the disaster management in the different phases of the risk cycle. Within the broad range of hazards, MonitorII specifically deals with floods and landslides, but the concepts of the project could be applied to other types of hazards

Monitor II: new methods for linking hazard mapping and contingency planning

The present brochure deals with the state of the art of hazard mapping and contingency planning and provides a general framework for adaptations and improvements. This brochure is intended to provide information to • experts of hazard mapping and natural hazards • authorities competent for disaster management, esp. contingency planning. The goal of the brochure is to provide these groups with a better understanding of the tasks and needs of each other. The long term goal is to improve communication between these domain expert groups. As state-of-the-art analysis, this brochure reflects the discussion arising from the problems and issues encountered by the participating project partners in their testbeds