Strategic Communication and Decision Support tool (CDT) : an Approach to Support Decision-Makers Managing Natural Hazards : 12th Congress INTERPRAEVENT 2012, Grenoble / France
decision support, natural hazards, debris flow, avalanches, landslides, climate changeClimate change has become a topic of major concern on a national and international level. Possible effects of changed climatic conditions are discussed by various stakeholders and experts, sometimes on a more emotional level than based on verifiable facts or data. The aim of the presented Strategic Communication and Decision Support Tool (CDT) is to supply decision-makers with a guide to aid communication between experts of different spatial-planning relevant disciplines, thus supporting the objective and transparent assessment of effects of dynamic processes (e.g. climate change) on natural hazard management. This should be achieved by reproducing complex systems of natural hazard processes by the determination of the relevance of single factors and sub-factors (parameters) within these processes. However, the approach should provide a method to generate results and display them in a comprehensible and more acceptable manner to other stakeholders and the public. This work is conducted within the Alpine Space project PARAmount (Adams et al. 2010) and is based on the results achieved in the previous Alpine Space project AdaptAlp. Within AdaptAlp first steps where already taken to validate relevant parameters of natural hazard processes (Andrecs et al. 2010).
