Abstract
Aim: Current management of disaster risks is often fragmented due to a lack of coordination between policies and actors with joint competence for risk management, i.e. civil protection, spatial planning and sectoral planning – a phenomenon which is known as “problem of interplay”. However, disconnected risk relevant policies might cause several adverse repercussions: Breaks in the Response-Preparedness-Prevention-Remediation chain (which should function as a continuum), minimal attention to prevention, risk expansion and growth instead of mitigation, lack of synergies between involved actors as well as duplicated or even diverging measures and funding. The following article presents an output-oriented risk governance approach. It offers a way how to achieve a more effective and efficient way of dealing as well as reducing a given risk by using “Agreement on Objectives”. The presented approach focuses on a more collaborative, process-oriented form of decision-making. The approach has been successfully applied in two hazard cases and three administrative contexts: (a) the City of Dortmund (Germany) facing flash floods, (b) East Attica region (Greece) facing forest fires and (c) Lazio Region (Italy) also facing forest fires. The following article will focus on the Case Study “Dortmund” and here especially mitigation measures that aim at improving the response capacity. Furthermore it highlights the necessity and importance of civil protection (e.g. fire brigades) as an active part in the risk management cycle and the shift to an end-user oriented Risk Governance.
Keywords: umowy docelowe; Zarządzanie Kryzysowe; zagrożenia naturalne i antropogeniczne; infrastruktura krytyczna