In CASCO we are developing integrated methods and models for multi-hazard risk assessment of coastal urban areas, subject to extreme compounding and/or cascading geophysical and climatic events. Our aim is to define solid workflows that simulate the full risk chain, from geophysical and climatic hazards to impacts on the population and the built environment. Our case-study scenarios are set in Sicily, Italy, around Mt. Etna and the Straits of Messina.

Project duration: 
2022-2025 

Funding agencies: 
Innovation Pool of the Research Field Earth and Environment of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres

Principle Investigator:
Cecilia Nievas 

Personnel  GFZ:
Juan Camilo Gomez-Zapata, Hui Tang,  Graeme Weatherill

Project partner: 
GERICS (HEREON) (Laurens Bouwer, Armelle Remedio, Jeewanthi Sirisena), GEOMAR (Morelia Urlaub, Jens Karstens, Yu Ren), AWI (Alexey Androsov, Sven Harig)

Project website:
https://earthenvironment.helmholtz.de/changing-earth/innopool-projects/casco/