Resumen
The HuT will employ innovative disaster risk reduction solutions, accounting for the potential
variations induced by climate change. This will involve integrating and leveraging best practices
and successful multi-disciplinary experiences that have been recently developed within various
territorial contexts by leading European research groups, institutions, and stakeholders, to deal
with extreme climate events. The project's main ambition beyond the state of the art is to promote
the "best set" of trans-disciplinary risk management tools and approaches that could be adopted and
used extensively across Europe, in as many situations as possible. The activities of the project
will be developed considering the following main critical dimensions: trans-disciplinarity,
systemic risk, co-production, cross- fertilization, transferability, and long-term legacy. A set of
ten demonstrators will constitute a multi-hazard arena wherein possible disastrous events
associated with climate extremes will be dealt with jointly by representatives of the scientific
and technical communities, practitioners, policy-makers and local communities. The events
associated to climate extremes that will be considered in this project are: forest fires, including
wildland urban interface fires; meteorological/hydrological/agricultural droughts, including
associated water shortage; heatwaves; weather-induced landslides, including debris flows; fluvial
and pluvial floods; storms, including heavy rain, hail, thunderstorms, and storm surges. The HuT
will mainly focus on the prevention and preparedness phases of the disaster risk management cycle,
explicitly considering climate change scenarios and integrating the proposed set of soluti
nts considered,
over short- (from days to several months) and long-term (from years to decades) time horizons.
