Disaster risk management and resilience

Designing safer urban spaces (DESURBS)

WEDC staff involved:

• Dr Lee Bosher
• Ksenia Chmutina
  
• Dr Julie Fisher

Summary of project activities and outcomes:

Through a multidisciplinary partnership of eight partners across Europe this project developed a series of tools, accessible through an interactive portal, designed to assist urban stakeholders to plan, design, manage and maintain safer urban spaces (in the context of natural hazards and manmade threats).