Author: Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences (GNS), National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) & Earthquake Commission (EQC),
Year of publication: 2007
Available languages: English
Type of assessment: Comprehensive impact and risk assessment
Details: Evidence-based risk assessments for natural hazards
Format of assessment: Software
Estimated costs for conducting: No information
Estimated duration of assessment: No information
To be carried out by whom: Multiple actors
Details: Government represenatives, researchers and private sector
Institutional scale of use: Regional
Assesment to be used by which target audience: Regional decision makers
Details: Practitioners of natural hazard management
Output: Others (see details)
Details: Excel sheet and risk map
Region of origin: Australia and Oceania
Developed by which sector: Science, State-run
Applied in practice: Yes
Geographic coverage in analysis: Australia and Oceania
Potential geographic coverage: New Zealand
Sectors covered: Not sector specific
Details: Model calculates losses to any assets which can be displayed spatially, therefore applicable to different sectors
Method used: Quantitative model
Description of methodology: The model has three key input modules: asset, hazard and vulnerability. These are combined in RiskScape to calculate impacts and losses to individual or aggregated assets for a natural hazard scenario.
Risk framework used: No explicit use of risk framework
Risk components incorporated: Vulnerability, hazard, risk, exposure
Hazards and impacts considered in the assessment: Flood, Storm, Changing precipitation patterns, Wildfire, Drought
Source of required data: Secondary (available data is used)
Details: Vector and raster data of hazard and asset information
Temporal scale: Forward looking
Participatory elements: No
Consideration of interconnectedness and -dependencies of risks: Partly
Details: Multiple hazards can be integrated into the model
Adressing uncertainty: No
Details: No information
Scope of assessment: Identification of risks
Details: Risk assessment for natural hazards
Economic/Non-Economic losses incorporated: Economic
Applicability for entire risk spectrum (from extreme weather events to slow onset processes): Partly
Details: Not done yet but eventually available for the next version
Recommendations for Adaptation measures included in Climate Risk Assessment: No
Applied by whom: Schmidt, J. et al. (2011)
Open access: Yes