The PEARL project aims at developing adaptive risk management strategies for coastal communities focusing on extreme hydro-meteorological events, with a multidisciplinary approach integrating social, environmental and technical research and innovation. PEARL will consider all fundamentals in the risk governance cycle, focusing on the enhancement of forecasting, prediction and early warning capabilities and the building of resilience and reduction of risk through learning from experience and the avoidance of past mistakes. The project is organized in eight different work packages addressing different aspects of the holistic flood risk management (WP1-WP6), dissemination (WP7) and the project management activities (WP8).
Project details
| Total cost | 6,474,834.28 € |
| European Commission contribution | 4,998,851.04 € |
| Duration | 4 years (2014-2018) |
| Start date | 01 January 2014 |
| Consortium | 24 partners from 13 countries |
| Project Coordinator | Dr Zoran Vojinovic UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, The Netherlands |
| The role of TUHH | WP leader on the case study areas, the member of the Project Management Group (PMG), responsible for the German case study (The Elbe Estuary) |
| Project web site | www.pearl-fp7.eu |
| Key words | Extreme hydro-meteorological events, holistic risk, governance, multi-hazard risk assessment, early warning, active stakeholder participation |
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