The ENHANCE book: multi-sector partnerships in risk management

The final book of the ENHANCE project carried the title “Novel Multi-Sector Partnerships in Disaster Risk Management: Results of the ENHANCE project”. It was announced at the end of October 2016 and presented in a press release from Brussels on 10 November 2016.

The book presented the project’s outcomes. Its two main messages concerned partnerships and information: effective risk reduction depends on partnerships between stakeholders, and on a wider base of risk information than any one organisation holds on its own.

Behind the book stood four years of work, from December 2012 to November 2016, by 24 partners in 11 European countries. The ten case studies it drew on ranged from alpine hazards on Austrian railways to volcanic ash and aviation, and from drought in the Júcar basin to storm surges on the Wadden Sea coast. Across them, ten partnerships linking public, private and civil-society actors were set up or developed further, with particular attention to the financial sector.

The results the book reported included a commitment of about EUR 200,000 for further analysis of climate risk in the Port of Rotterdam and a decision by the Wadden Sea Forum to add climate change impacts to its work.

The announcement and the press release are recorded in the book announcement and the Brussels press release. The research reports that fed into the book are described in the document library, and the ten cases in the case-study atlas.