Enhancing Synergies for disaster Prevention in the EurOpean Union
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ESPREssO aims to contribute 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's 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 three main challenges:
• To propose ways to create more coherent national and European approaches to 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 a set of 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 Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments (SFVC) online platform allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.