HuT

The Human-Tech Nexus - Building a Safe Haven to Cope with Climate Extremes

The HuT is an Innovation Action project funded by the Horizon Europe Framework Programme. The project addresses the distributive justice implications of extreme climate event impacts and aims at developing innovative and procedurally just Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) solutions for dealing with extreme climate events.

The project will integrate and leverage on best practices and successful multi-disciplinary experiences aiming at establishing fair processes, that have been recently developed in various territorial contexts by leading European research groups, institutions and stakeholders. A set of demonstrators will constitute a virtual multi-hazard arena wherein possible disastrous events associated with climate extremes that will unequally affect different population subgroups will be dealt with jointly by representatives of scientific and technical communities, stakeholders, policymakers and local communities. The proposal contributes to the achievement of a more efficient and equitable cross-sectoral, cross disciplinary, cross-border coordination of the disaster risk management cycle from the international to local scales.

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, policymakers and local communities. The events associated with 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 solutions, for the various events considered, over short- (from days to several months) and long-term (from years to decades) time horizons. The activities of the project will be developed considering the following main critical dimensions: trans-disciplinarity, systemic risk, coproduction, cross-fertilization, transferability, and long-term legacy.

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