Disaster resilience requires multiple stakeholders to collaborate within a management system. This webinar looks at modelling cause and effect between decisions of different stakeholders.
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29 January 2025, 14:00 - 16:00 (UK time)
This event is free and open to all.
Where: online (register using the link below)
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DescriptionStakeholders have different roles. For example, some help to define the problem by building disaster-risk scenarios. Others work on solutions by developing mitigation strategies or preparedness activities. Collectively, they contribute to a large complex management system. Diagrams and simulation models that illustrate the cause and effect of decisions made by different stakeholders can provide insight into the key aspects of such systems. A simple system dynamics simulation model of a disaster-related management system based on eight disaster-related objectives will be presented.
Additionally, the talk will outline the results of a task within the EU MEDiate Project on modelling stakeholder relations of a 3-decade-long risk reduction programme for urban avalanches and landslides in Iceland. The programme originally included multiple towns, and numerous stakeholders at different hierarchal levels, and was meant to be finished in 2010. Due to programme expansions and delays, it is still ongoing. In 2020, in a span of one week, 24 landslides fell above or onto one of the towns, leading to evacuations and damages. The results are a set of diagrams highlighting causal relations among the stakeholders that include key policy issues required to drive an effective disaster-related management system. |
Speakers
Dr Sólveig Thorvaldsdóttir
Rainrace Consulting Service
Dr Sólveig Thorvaldsdóttir is a consultant in disaster-related issues with Rainrace Consultancy. She has an undergraduate degree in civil engineering, a master´s in earthquake engineering, and a PhD in disaster-related management systems. Within engineering Solveig has worked in construction and earthquake risk analysis. Sólveig is active in search and rescue, mainly urban search and rescue. She has been on disaster missions for the Icelandic Rescue Teams, the United Nations, and the International Red Cross. From 1996-2003, Sólveig was the director of the Icelandic disaster management agency. Solveig teaches disaster risk management at the University of Iceland and works with the Icelandic Rescue Training School on developing disaster training material. Solveig has been involved in numerous EU projects, works for her local fire department, and is on the board of disasters for her local municipality. Her diverse background has led to a keen interest in stakeholder relationships.
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