Tools for Making Smart Investments in Prevention and Preparedness in Europe
Europe’s risk profile and projected climate change impacts, concentration of population, and aging infrastructure and assets call for urgent action to improve resilience. While European countries are taking major steps in enhancing disaster and climate resilience, catastrophic events reveal blind spots in critical sectors that provide emergency response services. Recent disaster events revealed significant knowledge gaps and the need to better understand the risks faced by critical sectors and what actions countries can take to systematically, yet efficiently, mitigate and manage these risks. This report helps close some of these gaps by providing guidance to decision-makers and practitioners on how to make focused and smart investments to increase the disaster and climate resilience of critical sectors. First, to inform EU-wide policy discussion and knowledge base, it highlights hotspots where assets emergency response buildings such as fire stations and emergency coordination centers were destroyed or severely damaged, along with ambulances, fire trucks, and search and rescue vehicles. Focused and smart investments are needed to strengthen and adapt critical sectors in Europe to disaster and climate risks.
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| Format: | Report biblioteca |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC: World Bank
2024-05-24
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| Subjects: | CLIMATE CHANGE, CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION, CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION IMPACTS, CLIMATE ACTION, SDG 13, DISASTER PREPAREDNESS, DISASTER RESILIENCE, INDUSTRY, INNOVATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE, SDG 9, EMERGENCY RESPONSE, |
| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099050224072033005/P17907015a302401f1b7e51fc14ed9b73ef https://hdl.handle.net/10986/41595 |
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