Introduction
The ESPREssO project addresses the topic DRS-10-2015: Disaster Resilience and Climate Changetopic 2: Natural Hazards: Towards risk reduction science and innovation plans at nationaland European level.
ESPREssO aims at contributing to a new strategic vision to approach natural risk reduction and climate change adaptation, thereby opening new frontiers for research and policy making.
To achieve this goal, the project structure is built upon the central role of three main challenges to be addressed in order to propose ways to mitigate differences, to identify gaps, and to overcome the boundaries among different topics:
- To propose ways to create more coherent national and European approaches on Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Change Adaptation and resilience strengthening;
- To enhance risk management capabilities by bridging the gap between science and legal/policy issues at local and national levels in six European countries;
- To address the issue of efficient management of trans-boundary crises.
The main final products of ESPREssO will be the Guidelines on risk management capability and a Vision Paper on future research strategies in order to better define the research priorities following the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030.
The ESPREssO Project (Enhancing Synergies for disaster PRevention in the EurOpean Union) http://www.espressoproject.eu/ has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon2020 research and innovation programme and seeks to elicit the needs, perspectives and opinions of stakeholders, operating within the spheres of Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in Europe. It strives to identify gaps and issues by gathering opinions of those at either end of the policy-practice spectra, in exploration of 3 core Challenges:
a) Integrating climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction in Europe,
b) Improving trans-boundary management of crises
c) Bridging the Science-policy gap.
