Exposure

Next to the severity of the event, the amount of damage and casualties inflicted by an extreme weather event also depends on the extent to which people, economic assets and ecosystems are exposed to the event. Commitment to developing transboundary river basin management for flood and drought management benefits from a better common understanding of the changes in exposed people and assets to extreme climate drivers over an entire river basin. JCAR ATRACE will support the development of a common exposure database that is used by all partners and can be used for further research.

Within this theme we will focus on 3 research topics:

1. Consistent high-resolution data on (socio-economic) characteristics of assets and people
2. Consistent high-resolution data of critical infrastructure
3. Future exposure projections