RISK AND EMERGENCY MODELLING FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY: GENERAL ASPECTS

摘要

The international instruments in the scope of environmental protection are not successful without taking into account the risk of natural hazards and terrorist attacks and their impact. Disaster reduction policies and measures need to be implemented, to enable societies to be resilient to natural and man-made hazards while ensuring that the development efforts do not increase the vulnerability to these hazards. Disaster reduction is therefore emerging as an important requisite for sustainable development. The need to have accurate tools supporting the development and implementation of adequate risk analysis, management and mitigation approaches, plans, methodologies and strategies give models a unique importance. In this context, the work is focused on some of the efforts made so far in the scope of risk and emergency modelling towards environmental security, at different spatial scales, from the atmosphere to aquatic systems.