Exemplary actions for the resilience of cross-border communities to natural hazards in the mountains
"This project is part of the plan RISK" : The project ACT aims to apply products from the projects COM, GEST and FOR to pilot cases in cross-border territory. Land management and emergency management strategies will be implemented to address natural hazards, and innovative communication and training approaches will be tested for people and technicians. The establishment of these activities will enable the implementation of the PITEM RISK strategy directly on cross-border territories with clear benefits of improving the resilience of the population, with the aim of meeting the real needs of the territory.

ALCOTRA’s territory is subject to numerous risks. Some of them ignore borders (natural risks), some others are susceptible to be replicated on both sides of the border or to request a joint intervention (industrial, urban and technological risks). These specifics risks need an enforced cross-border cooperation. The intensity, challenge and complexity of potential crisis, in a context of high threats, impose to develop instruments of this collaboration: new interactive instruments of information, communication (warning and information) bettering risk supervision, the decision-making, the alert and risk management, involving citizens to the whole process; instruments of analyse, experience feedbacks and planning; formation and operational preparation of actors. Mutual assistance conventions exist on these territories which are organising the answer to these crises. The seriousness of these events and their scarcity make them necessary to develop new instruments allowing the facilitation of practices integrations and knowledges in natural risk prevention sector and crisis management. This PITEM is integrated in the continuity of previous experiences (RiskNat, RISKNET, FORMARISC, FORTRESS, PICRIT, PRODIGE), it promotes work and deliverable realized, pursuing their development increasing their use by a bigger public of users.