Centre for Climate and Safety receives research funding for disaster modelling
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The Knowledge Foundation (Stiftelsen för kunskaps- och kompetensutveckling) has allocated SEK 3.4 million to this interdisciplinary research project on disaster modeling, focusing on flood risks.
The project is being lead by the Centre for Climate and Safety at Karlstad University in close collaboration with four companies:
- The Insurance Trade Association for Saved Value in Sweden (Försäkringsbranschens Restvärderäddning i Sverige AB) which is a subsidiary company of the Swedish Fire Protection Association (Svenska Brandskyddsföreningen)
- JLT Re Northern Europe,
- Customer-owned regional insurance company in Jönköping (Länsförsäkringar Jönköping)
- Länsförsäkringar Alliance (Länsförsäkringar AB).
The project is supported by the municipality of Jönköping, as well as the global disaster modeling initiative the Oasis Loss Modelling Framework.
The project has three main objectives:
- Develop methods for disaster modelling, including descriptions of precipitation, exposure and potential damage.
- Develop a secure method for managing insurance data on flood damage in order to better understand the relationship between precipitation and damage.
- Establish an arena for cooperation between academia, insurance trade association, and authorities in the blue light sector in order to reduce disaster risk in Sweden on a long-term basis.
The overall work will provide a better picture of the incurred costs in the event of heavy precipitation, which is needed for effective long-term prevention work. The project will use Jönköping as a case study to conduct analyses of events and future risks. The project is divided into six work packages
- GIS platform - Jan Haas, Karlstad University
- RVR data - Thomas Gell
- Sand box methodological development - Sven Halldin, Uppsala University
- International mapping - Lars Nyberg, Karlstad University
- Communication and networking - Emelie Hindersson, , Karlstad University
- Precipitation model
Contact person: Lars Nyberg, lars.nyberg@kau.se
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