Recent Studies by S. Hochrainer-Stigler and Co-Authors Add New Data to Environmental Management Findings (Evaluating Partnerships to Enhance Disaster…

Recent Studies by S. Hochrainer-Stigler and Co-Authors Add New Data to Environmental Management Findings (Evaluating Partnerships to Enhance Disaster Risk Management using Multi-Criteria Analysis: An Application at the Pan-European Level)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Ecology, Environment & Conservation -- Investigators discuss new findings in Environmental Management. According to news reporting out of Laxenburg, Austria, by VerticalNews editors, research stated, "Disaster risk is increasingly recognized as a major development challenge. Recent calls emphasize the need to proactively engage in disaster risk reduction, as well as to establish new partnerships between private and public sector entities in order to decrease current and future risks."

Funders for this research include ACRP Austrian Climate Research Program, FP7 European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme.

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research, "Very often such potential partnerships have to meet different objectives reflecting on the priorities of stakeholders involved. Consequently, potential partnerships need to be assessed on multiple criteria to determine weakest links and greatest threats in collaboration. This paper takes a supranational multi-sector partnership perspective, and considers possible ways to enhance disaster risk management in the European Union by better coordination between the European Union Solidarity Fund, risk reduction efforts, and insurance mechanisms. Based on flood risk estimates we employ a risk-layer approach to determine set of options for new partnerships and test them in a high-level workshop via a novel cardinal ranking based multi-criteria approach."

According to the news editors, the research concluded: "Whilst transformative changes receive good overall scores, we also find that the incorporation of risk into budget planning is an essential condition for successful partnerships."

For more information on this research see: Evaluating Partnerships to Enhance Disaster Risk Management using Multi-Criteria Analysis: An Application at the Pan-European Level. Environmental Management, 2018;61(1):24-33. Environmental Management can be contacted at: Springer, 233 Spring St, New York, NY 10013, USA. (Springer - www.springer.com; Environmental Management - www.springerlink.com/content/0364-152x/)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting S. Hochrainer-Stigler, IIASA, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-017-0959-4. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

Keywords for this news article include: Laxenburg, Austria, Europe, Environmental Management.

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