The Focus of Management of Disaster Risk and Societal Resilience (MADIS)
The overall aim of the project is to enhance regional capacity to develop, pilot-test, and validate regional climate models that enable the prediction, assessment, and response to effects of droughts and flood risk. We propose to address four issues for operationalizing the Management of Disaster Risk and Societal Resilience (MADIS).
- Ambiguity in the relationship between hazards, vulnerability, and resilience.
- Disaster management tools aren’t assessed through a socio-technical systems view.
- The representation of institutional, infrastructural, and societal dimensions of drought in risk analysis has been limited.
- Links between drought indicators and impacts are poorly represented.
The objectives of MADIS:
Develop a drought resilience index framework (Management of Disaster Risk and Societal Resilience (MADIS)) to better facilitate disaster management decisions
Validate the proposed MADIS framework through cross-country field studies in Africa and other regions.
Implement a data-light decision support system to help policymakers evaluate alternative disaster policy options in the absence of reliable data
Consortium Partners
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, United States
University of São Paulo
São Paulo, Brazil
Cranfield University
Cranfield, United Kingdom
Partners
Mohammed VI Polytechnic University
Ben Guerir, Morocco
Boğaziçi University Center for Climate Change and Policy Studies
Istanbul, Türkiye