Author: Universidad de los Andes, Center for Coordination of Natural Disaster Prevention in Central America (CEPREDENAC), UNISDR, the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) and The World Bank
Year of publication: 2008
Available languages: English
Type of assessment: Comprehensive impact and risk assessment
Details: This platform offers softwares that comprise tools of analysis within the realms of exposure & vulnerability, hazard (geologic / hydrogeological), climate change and risk assessment
Format of assessment: Software
Details: Website that comprises different softwares for different phenomena (Capra-EQ for geological hazards; ERN Volcano; IT Flood; CAPRA Hurricanes; ERN Vulnerability, etc.); evaluates losses / risks; tool connects automatically to available model outputs and datasets
Estimated costs for conducting: No information
Estimated duration of assessment: No information
To be carried out by whom: Multiple actors
Details: Government, institutions, private companies and other agencies
Institutional scale of use: Continental
Assesment to be used by which target audience: State level decision makers
Output: Excel sheet
Details: Risk-modeling platform with different software applications; probabilistic hazard models
Region of origin: Europe, Latin America, North America
Developed by which sector: Development cooperation, Science
Applied in practice: Yes
Geographic coverage in analysis: Worldwide
Potential geographic coverage: Worldwide
Details: Calculates damages and losses of human lives, therefore impacts are relevant to different sectors
Method used: Mixed method approach
Description of methodology: Hazard information obtained from historical data and published investigations is used to build probabilistic hazard models. Intensity measures -seismic, tsunami, strong winds, storm-surge, flood; volcanic products- are related to economic loss through physical vulnerability functions. The main output risk metrics are the loss exceedance curve, the average annual loss, the probable maximum loss and pure risk premium
Risk framework used: No explicit use of risk framework
Risk components incorporated: All
Hazards and impacts considered in the assessment: Cyclone (including tropical storm, hurricane and typhoon), Drought, Flood, Storm surge
Details: Already included databases can be combined with collected spatial explicit data on assets to inform exposure and vulnerability components
Participatory elements: Yes
Details: Software applications for own usage as well as interactive webinar
Consideration of interconnectedness and -dependencies of risks: Yes
Details: Combination of exposure & vulnerability; hazards & climate change and risk assessment
Adressing uncertainty: Yes
Scope of assessment: Identification of risks, assessment of impacts, identification of adaptation options, priorization of adaptation options, identification of limits to adaptation
Details: Impact and risk assessment
Economic/Non-Economic losses incorporated: Both
Applicability for entire risk spectrum (from extreme weather events to slow onset processes): No
Recommendations for Adaptation measures included in Climate Risk Assessment: Partly
Details: There is a consultancy component and the possibility of technical asssistance in adaptation endeavours
Usefulness for political purposes: Useful for development practice, but in Latin American context
Applied by whom: CAPRA users range from technical experts, academics, government institutions, and emergency response organizations, to risk management consultants and decision-makers, a wide and far-reaching community.
Open access: Yes