Managing forest risks towards disaster reduction: the case of wildfires, storms, floods and avalanches and their interactions

Workshop Contents:

Agenda

Presentations:

1 – Assessing risks interactions and lessons learned

Introducing European Forest Risk Facility initiative; Towards enhancing the resilience and adaptive capacity of European forest landscapes by promoting knowledge echange and networking. (Alex Held & Marcus Lindner – European Forest Institute)
Storms disaster: too seldom – too often. (Christoph Hartebrodt – Forest Research Institute of Baden-Württemberg)
Flood risk management: opening opportunities. (Bertram de Rooij – Wageningen Environmental Research)
Avalanches: forest interactions and risk management. (Frank Krumm – Institute for Snow and Avalanches Research)

2 – Towards integrating risk planning and management

Awareness-raising on risk in theory and practice. (Yvonne Hengst – Forest Research Institute of Baden-Württemberg)
Multi-risk R+D Projects and Operational tools for effective Risk Reduction Strategies mainstreaming at regional policies
- PLAtform for Climate Adaptation and Risk reDuction “PLACARD Project”. (Bertram de Rooij – Wageningen Environmental Research)
- Transnational Plans for the management of forest risks “PLURIFOR Project”. (Eduard Mauri – Atlantic European Regional Office of the Euroepan Forest Institute)
- Fire and Rescue Innovation Network “FIRE-IN Project”. (Jean Michel Dumaz – SAFE Cluster)
- The flood risk management plan of Sardinia “Directive 2007/60/EC”. (Roberto Silvano – Former Secretary General of Basin Authority of Sardinia)
- NET RISK WORK project outcomes:
  - Best practices compilation. (Alice Clemenceau – ENTENTE VALABRE)
  - Risk interaction matrix. (Yvonne Hengst – Forest Research Institute of Baden-Württemberg)
  - RISKPlatform. (Christoph Suter – GEOTEST)
  - Wildfire Regional Node. (Jordi Vendrell – Pau Costa Foundation)