CIMA Research Foundation partners in the European RISC-KIT project (Resilience-Increasing Strategies for Coasts – toolKIT), which aims to develop methods, tools and approaches to reduce risk and increase resilience to low frequency extreme weather events with high impact on coastal areas. The result of the RISC-KIT project is an open-source and free-ware toolkit.
RISC-KIT focuses on the implementation of a Coastal Risk Assessment Framework (CRAF) that can identify the most at risk areas on a multi-risk approach on regional scale (about 100 kilometres) and implement an Early Warning and Decision Supporting System (EWS / DSS) on quantitative and high resolution (10-km scale) to assess the actions to be taken on the risk areas defined by the CRAF.
RISC-KIT also provides a web-based guide with innovative and economically efficient management tools as well as an ecosystem approach to Disaster Risk Reduction. Eventually, the project also works on compiling a coastal risk database with both current and historical physical and socio-economic information.
Within the RISC-KIT project CIMA Research Foundation aims to put in place tools that enable the management of spatial and emergency planning activities and a real-time monitoring of flood events in coastal areas. Our researchers are responsible for implementing tools to monitor flash flood events in the Italian territory, particularly in Liguria, with the Magra river study case.
RISC-KIT will result in an improved coastal area management regarding alerts emergency planning. The tools implemented will allow to identify hot spots (areas at risk), to produce forecasts and alerts, to evaluate the effects of socio-economic, cultural and climatic changes on coastal risk and finally to choose the best prevention measures for coastal preparation towards risk mitigation.
