The objective of this study was to help improve the quality and consistency of consumer evidence by developing a simple, consistent state-of-the-art methodology to identify, measure and quantify the incidence and the magnitude of personal consumer detriment across a broad array of markets, to te...
Floods can cause injury and loss of life, considerable economic costs, and damage to the environment and cultural heritage. Serious floods have become more frequent in Europe. In recent years, more than twice as many flash floods of medium to large magnitude have been registered as in the late e...
Information exchange on the Internet is possible thanks to a physical infrastructure composed of network equipment and cables, such as fibre optics. The majority of these cables are usually laid underground, for esthetic reasons and to improve their security. In the last years, ENISA has noticed...
This report follows the work carried out over the last few years by the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC) and, since 2015, by its Disaster Risk Management Knowledge Centre (DRMKC), in collaboration with DG European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO). In particu...
Assessing potential damage of flood events is an important component in flood risk management. Determining direct flood damage is commonly done using depth-damage curves, which denote the flood damage that would occur at specific water depths per asset or per land-use class. Many countries have ...
This guidance document has been developed with the aim of guiding assessments of personal consumer detriment, whether EU-wide in-depth consumer market studies focusing on a single market or cross-market assessments, based on the work undertaken in the context of the Study on measuring consumer d...
A field mission was conducted in the region affected by the May-June 2012 earthquakes in the Pianura Padana-Emiliana in Northern Italy. The field mission was organized to study the effects of the earthquakes mainly for what concerns prefabricated reinforced concrete industrial buildings, recogni...
The study builds on the EU Adaptation Strategy (EC, 2013a) and the Green Paper on the insurance of natural and man-made disasters (EC, 2013b), and addresses the objective of encouraging the use of insurance to manage weather and climate-related disaster risk. More specifically, the study support...
In the 2007–13 programming period, the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) provided support for restoring forestry potential in forests damaged by natural disasters and fire, as well as for preventive actions. The Court’s audit concludes that the support was not sufficiently...
