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Earthquake and landslide risk is a public safety issue that requires appropriate mitigation measures and means to protect citizens, property, infrastructure and the built cultural heritage. Mitigating this risk requires integrated and coordinated action that embraces a wide range of organisations and disciplines. For this reason, the LESSLOSS IP is formulated by a large number of European Centres of excellence in earthquake and geotechnical engineering integrating in the traditional fields of engineers and earth scientists some expertise of social scientists, economists, urban planners, information
technologists.The LESSLOSS project addresses natural disasters, risk and impact assessment, natural hazard monitoring, mapping and management strategies, improved disaster preparedness and mitigation, development of
advanced methods for risk assessment, methods of appraising environmental quality and relevant pre-normative research.In order for the multi-disciplinary S&T ingredients of the project to be tackled in an efficient and productive
manner, the research programme has been split into three distinct areas: physical environment, urban areas and infrastructures. For each one of this areas four main types of transversal fields have been identified as fundamental and capable of producing permanent effects on risk mitigation: (i) instrumentation and monitoring, (ii) methods and technologies to reduce vulnerability, (iii) innovative approaches for design/assessment and (iv) disaster scenarios and loss modelling. Within this general framework, specific objectives will be pursued, such as the development of innovative methods and approaches to design and assessment of structures and earth slopes for both short-term application (e.g. employment of loss assessment results in urban planning policies) and long-term implementation (e.g. introduction of
displacement-based approaches in design regulations); the development of advanced monitoring techniques and devices, inc  |
Summary
Earthquake and landslide risk is a public safety issue that requires appropriate mitigation measures and means to protect citizens, property, infrastructure and the built cultural heritage. Mitigating this risk requires integrated and coordinated action that embraces a wide range of organisations and disciplines. For this reason, the LESSLOSS IP is formulated by a large number of European Centres of excellence in earthquake and geotechnical engineering integrating in the traditional fields of engineers and earth scientists some expertise of social scientists, economists, urban planners, information
technologists.The LESSLOSS project addresses natural disasters, risk and impact assessment, natural hazard monitoring, mapping and management strategies, improved disaster preparedness and mitigation, development of
advanced methods for risk assessment, methods of appraising environmental quality and relevant pre-normative research.In order for the multi-disciplinary S&T ingredients of the project to be tackled in an efficient and productive
manner, the research programme has been split into three distinct areas: physical environment, urban areas and infrastructures. For each one of this areas four main types of transversal fields have been identified as fundamental and capable of producing permanent effects on risk mitigation: (i) instrumentation and monitoring, (ii) methods and technologies to reduce vulnerability, (iii) innovative approaches for design/assessment and (iv) disaster scenarios and loss modelling. Within this general framework, specific objectives will be pursued, such as the development of innovative methods and approaches to design and assessment of structures and earth slopes for both short-term application (e.g. employment of loss assessment results in urban planning policies) and long-term implementation (e.g. introduction of
displacement-based approaches in design regulations); the development of advanced monitoring techniques and devices, including satellite - based remote sensing; the development, manufacturing and testing of innovative isolating and dissipating seismic devices. The LESSLOSS project will have a permanent effect in reshaping the way earthquake and landslide risk mitigation research is carried out in Europe, creating bridges between different fields of knowledge and the coordinated remote use of facilities, resources and data, in view of the technology transfer to the stakeholders for
effective risk reduction. A European research area able to compete, in particular, with US and Japanese centres in all fields related to landslide and earthquake risk mitigation will result and may progressively lead to the creation of permanent, geographically distributed, centres. |