Abstract:
Potential effects of climate dynamics on the urban water cycle can involve the
aggravation of existing conditions as well as occurrence of new hazards or risk
factors. The risks associated with expected climate changes have to be dealt with
by the society in general and by the water utilities and other stakeholders in
particular.
The challenges created by climate dynamics require an integrated approach for
dealing with existing and expected levels of risk. In PREPARED Task 2.1.1 a
WCSP framework was proposed for such an integrated approach. The
application of the WCSP framework requires a number of tools to facilitate the
tasks of working groups involved. One of these tasks is risk identification.
This document presents the adopted structure and contents for a risk
identification database (RIDB), providing background information on the data
needed for event characterization (event description, hazard, risk sources,
contributing causes, existing measures to reduce risk, risk factors, typical
consequence dimensions) and on data for estimating the effect of climate changes
in event risk. This RIDB is intended to facilitate the task of risk identification in
the WCSP. Additionally, a register of historical accidents is proposed.
The subsequent PREPARED tasks allow testing and improving of this initial
proposal of the RIDB as well as feeding the databases with data from the selected
case studies of the project.
