The ENHANCE project aims at developing and analysing new ways to enhance society's resilience to catastrophic natural hazard impacts. It analyses and develops new multi-sector partnerships (MSPs) between public and private sectors, with emphasis on the financial sector.
The hazards the project focuses on are related to heat waves, forest fires, flood, drought, storm surge, and volcanic eruptions. Ten participatory case studies on risk reduction, taking place at different geographical and spatial scales in Europe, are at the heart of the project. Based on these case studies the project aims at developing and improving partnerships and risk information; it also suggests risk management measures and policy recommendations.
ENHANCE is co-funded by the Seventh Framework programme of the European Union and brings together a balanced representation of actors coming from academia and private sector as well as public authorities.
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