Remotely Accessed Decision Support System for Transnational Environmental Risk Management
Risk management at transnational level is an important tool for setting up alternative risk scenarios within the Strategic Environmental Assessment framework (SEA). This is one result that was realised when implementing the CADSES project "ISOTEIA" which deals with an integrated system to assess Territorial and Environmental Impacts (TEIA) regarding resource management and regional planning. Moreover, it was discovered that there is a serious gap between the scientific state-of-the-art in the field of managing risks on the one hand, and on the other hand, the actual implementation of transnational approaches and mechanisms in risk management. STRiM will bridge this gap between science and ad-hoc solutions at transnational level and will develop new mechanisms for Strategic Environmental Assessment which is required by EU legislation. In the STRiM project partners from ten countries - EU member states and accession countries - will be involved. Main target groups of the project are stakeholders in risk management who need serious scientific backup when applying the "precautionary principle", which means measures will be proposed to reduce and prevent environmental risks and disasters.