Guidance on implementation of BINGO WP4 – Assessment of impacts of extreme weather events - Establishing the context for the risk management process

Abstract

The main objectives of BINGO are to provide adaptation strategies for climate change-related challenges, by coproduced tools and methodologies for water and land resources management strategies that are based on an improved understanding of future climate and its impact on the hydrological cycle and in human activities, in order to sustain key economic sectors and the environment. Decision under uncertainty (climate changes evolution) is a risk management process, of weighing policy alternatives, in consultation with all interested parties, considering risk assessment and other relevant factors and, if needed, selecting appropriate prevention and control options. The main job of BINGO is to put in practice, in a realistic but scientific way, a comprehensive risk management framework approach, aiming to support efficiently decision-making for sustainable development and improved governance, resulting in the adaptation strategies and policies to be achieved in work package 5 (WP5 - risk treatment). BINGO WP4 will perform the assessment of impacts of climate change extreme scenarios on human activities, at each research site, based on the risk assessment procedure of ISO 31000:2009, in such a way that its results assist to develop risk validated adaption strategies to cope with climate changes in WP5. This document aims at providing some guidance to BINGO partners on WP4 implementation, articulating with the remaining project activities. It explains how ISO 31000:2009 needs to be adapted into BINGO project, and addresses in detail the steps required to establish the context for the risk management process at each research site, envisaging as well later results extrapolation for other European regions.