PROJECT DESCRIPTION
RISKRAPID aims to improve response systems to highly hazardous, high-intensity, and rapidly developing natural phenomena that can create risk situations in small mountain watersheds. To achieve this, it is necessary to have methodologies, tools, and forecasting and early warning systems that provide land managers and the public with prevention and decision-making support to mitigate these risk situations.
The project will focus on two major natural hazards that are especially common in the Pyrenees: flash floods and rockfalls.
The objective is to establish a monitoring network in several small mountain basins of less than 50 km², where these phenomena can pose a critical risk to infrastructure, cities, and human activities. Based on this monitoring, and in a context of climate change that amplifies this risk, the implementation of analysis and assessment systems will allow for the prediction and alerting of unacceptable risk levels, supported by new technologies such as big data, AI, LiDAR, satellite imagery, modeling, etc.
This monitoring will be complemented by the implementation of plans, intervention protocols and warnings to the population in order to directly involve the intervention teams as well as the most significant actors in the area in self-protection and knowledge of risk situations.
To this end, a number of operational, realistic, and practical pilot projects will be carried out in the field to prevent the aforementioned risks that could affect various activities in the Pyrenees. Events are planned to share the project’s findings with industry professionals, political representatives, and/or the general public, given its importance in the Pyrenees.
AIM
The objective of the RISKRAPID project is to establish a monitoring network in several small mountain basins of less than 50 km2, where flash floods and rockfalls can present a critical risk to infrastructure, cities and human activities.
RISKRAPID will use prediction and warning systems for high-speed triggering risk situations, such as flash floods, in small mountain basins, as well as preventive and decision support systems for land managers and the population.
RESULTS
The results of the RISKRAPID project will depend on how well it addresses the challenges it faces and takes advantage of the opportunities available to it:
RISKRAPID is structured around the following challenges:
1) Improve response to high-energy, fast-onset natural disasters , such as flash floods and rockfalls.
2) Sharing data and methodologies.
3. Involve land managers and the public in the culture of risk and safety.
RISKRAPID should take advantage of and enhance the following opportunities:
1) Establish a system for collecting shared hydrometeorological data with joint analysis and evaluation of values, especially extreme ones.
2) To have common methodologies and instruments, as well as systems for measuring and forecasting natural risk triggers.
3) To have an integrated view of the actors involved in safety and risk prevention, in the forecasting and alert phases of emergency situations.
FINANCIAL SUPPORT
The European Union is co-financing the RISKRAPID European project at 65% through the Interreg VI-A Spain-France-Andorra Programme (POCTEFA 2021-2027). The objective of POCTEFA is to strengthen the economic and social integration of the Spain-France-Andorra border region.
The overall objective of the POCTEFA Programme is to address the common challenges of the border region and maximize its growth potential, while improving cooperation and governance for the European Union’s enhanced sustainable development. The POCTEFA Programme aims to foster sustainable, smart, and integrated development by strengthening the capacities of entities within the cooperation area and increasing the resilience of the regions.
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