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CREW: Community Resilience to Extreme Weather
Dr Steve Hallett, Cranfield University
Aim: To develop a set of tools for improving the capacity for resilience of local communities to the impacts of extreme weather events.
Objectives:
- Develop a tool to map probabilistic future EWEs, i.e. flooding, heatwaves, subsidence, wind and lightning;
- Integrate social and physical research to develop an improved understanding of risk from EWEs at the community level;
- Identify the risks, vulnerabilities, barriers and drivers that affect the resilience of a local community to EWEs;
- Assess the adaptive capacity of a local community to respond to the challenges of EWEs;
- Develop and test new strategic and operational models to support effective planning to cope with both current and future EWEs;
- Provide new insights into the inter-relationships between stakeholders in the local community (decision makers, householders, businesses) for those with national responsibilities for coping with EWEs;
- Inform communities of the risks and options for coping with EWEs;
- Create and evaluate the benefits of an interactive, stakeholder-driven research programme.
Website: CREW
Further details: Download summary leaflet (pdf, 930 KB)
April 2011 Conference output:
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