about the project
MIT-RSC aims at developing of an integrated risk assessment framework for measuring impacts of multiple natural hazards in urban areas, based on the comprehensive analysis of their direct and indirect interrelations and consequences. Such a framework is intended to constitute a useful decision-support tool, providing a singular standardized metric to measure aggregated urban risks, and to accurately investigate the potential impact of pre- and post-disaster strategies. Accordingly, this project will contribute to improving the protection of vulnerable communities to the impact of natural disasters. The long-term effects of this project will be the risk reduction of extreme natural hazards in urban areas, namely coastal and pluvial floods, earthquakes, landslides, and urban fires, and the improvement of the capacity of buildings and populations, making them more prepared and resilient. The developed framework will be tested and used by the Lisbon Metropolitan Region that will also disseminate it through other public and private operators in and outside of its edge, guaranteeing thus the impact of MIT-RSC.