Community-based risk mitigation planning in Alpine areas – experiences from the X-Risk-CC-project
Abstract ID: 3.13034 | Accepted as Talk | Talk | TBA | TBA
Michael Pörnbacher (1)
Rebecca Chizzola (2), Alice Crespi (1), Marc Zebisch (1), Kathrin Renner (1), Laura Bozzoli (1)
(2) Agentur für Bevölkerungsschutz, Drususallee/Viale Druso 116, 39100, Bolzano, Bolzano, IT
(6) Eurac Research, Drususallee/Viale Druso 1, 39100, Bolzano, Bolzano, IT
The Alpine region faces numerous challenges due to climate change, including extreme weather events leading to complex, intersectoral and often hardly predictable impacts, which often surpass the adaptive capacity of current risk management systems. The administratively, ecologically and socio-culturally heterogeneous Alpine region, with multiple exposed elements and societal vulnerabilities, hinders the application of standardized solutions, but rather underlines the need for a stronger integration of scientific understanding and local knowledge for elaborating tailored, action-oriented risk mitigation options. The X-RISK-CC project addresses the growing challenges of climate-related risks in the Alpine region by fostering collaboration between researchers, local practitioners and policy makers in seven Alpine pilot areas. Through co-designing the project with practitioners, co-developing recommendations through a comprehensive stakeholder involvement and testing their applicability, the project aims at bridging science and practice in an integrated way. The analysis of past and future meteorological extremes and risks in the pilot areas provided the scientific basis for the stakeholder engagement in the following phases. Administrators from different political levels, local and regional risk managers, and technicians participated to local surveys and various workshops to derive the status quo of current risk management practices, to stress-test them under several scenarios of extreme events and to identify the main gaps and needs among the whole risk cycle. These local inputs from the various pilot areas were used for initiating the elaboration of tailored and actionable policy recommendations. Furthermore, the participatory activities increased the awareness among stakeholders involved of the need to adapt to new risk scenarios under climate change and to initiate autonomous actions, also going beyond the project boundaries. This session aims to provide valuable insights into the project’s framework and its strong science-policy-practice nexus, while sharing specific experiences from stakeholder involvement in the pilot area of South Tyrol (Italy). Further, it will address the challenges of integrating various knowledge sources and scaling them up, as well as the first elaborated outputs, gaps, and critical issues of participatory aspects in the adaptation of the risk management cycle.
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