• create knowledge, frameworks and methods for the assessment of vulnerability to natural hazards in Europe.
• use indices and indicators to help improve societal and environmental resilience placing emphasis on clear, capable measurement and accounting for uncertainties.
• identify gaps in existing methodologies.
• produce a conceptual framework that is independent of scale and hazard type.
• analyse physical, technical, environmental, economic, social, cultural and institutional vulnerability measured for specific hazards and at different geographical scales.
• study floods, temperature extremes, droughts, landslides, earthquakes, wildfires and storms.

Specific research input:

• Development of a new, consolidated risk and vulnerability framework
• Assessment of vulnerability to floods in the Salzach catchment for the social, economic, institutional and cultural dimension
• Compilation of a manual for stakeholders on vulnerability assessment
• Editing of a methodological compendium with Elsevier