| Title: |
White paper on risks related to urban stormwater
|
| Resource Type: |
document --> technical publication --> report
|
| Country: |
EU Projects
|
| Year: |
2003 |
| Availability: |
Daywater consortium (2003) White paper on risks related to urban stormwater, Deliverable N° 4.1
|
| Author 1/Producer: |
Daywater consortium
|
| Author / Producer Type: |
EC Project
|
| Format (e.g. PDF): |
PDF
|
|
EUGRIS Keyword(s): |
Contaminated land-->Wider impacts / sustainability-->Assessment tools
|
| Short description: |
Chapter 2 explains the basic scientific definition of risk, outlines the terminology chosen to
describe the different aspects of risk and discusses how indicators of risk are sometimes used
to simplify risks assessments and improve the communication of risk issues.
Chapter 3 explores the “space” made up of three important terms: actual risks, perceived risks
and uncertainty – and discusses how these terms are related to risk management and decisionmaking.
Consequently, chapter 4 explains how the water professional dealing with stormwater source
control can break the risk management task down into i) dealing with the perception of risks, ii)
assessing the actual magnitude of risks (when needed), and iii) coping with uncertainty by either
reducing uncertainty or initiating transition processes. Ways to simplify comprehensive risk
assessments into analysing either hazards associated with the sources of risks or vulnerability
of objects exposed to risks are discussed.
Chapter 5 reports on an inventory of risks related to stormwater source control based on
questionnaire information from the end-users associated with the DayWater project. The
inventory furthermore discusses regional risk aspects based on information from the partners of
the DayWater project.
Finally, chapter 6 summarises the content of the report, and briefly outlines the way ahead for
T4.2 and discusses possible integration issues with other work packages of the DayWater
project.
|
|
Submitted By:
|
Dr Stefan Gödeke WhoDoesWhat?
Last update: 14/02/2006
|
|
|
