ATTRIBUTION OF LOSSES TO NATURAL HAZARDS PERIL/HAZARD GLOSSARY AND CLASSIFICATION 1January 2015

Loss data inform policy making in different ways JRC, 2013, as reported in GAR 2015

What classification system? Who is interested? Peril classification systems? INSPIRE Member States IRDR Who Else is considering ESCAP OECD 320 February 2014

Loss data reporting Post 2015 Framework for DRR Global statistics Local, Regional, National Accounting Comparability EuropeContinent B Country

Harmonizing Peril Classifications Issues Databases classify events differently (e.g. Landslides could be geophysical (due to seismic shaking)or hydrological (due to excessive rainfall causing slope failure) events depending on the initiating process Perils may have different meanings in different languages Value: A consistent peril classification allows data users to compare losses from landslides for example in database A with those recorded in database B, knowing that differences reflect variations in loss estimation methods, not different definitions of landslides or how they were classified. 14/03/28/ irdr-peril-classification-and-hazard- glossary/

DATA Project, Can aggregate or disaggregate, and link specific perils to more than one Main Event The associations between classes is not a one-to-one correspondence

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Next steps Hazards/Perils Your input for a European Overview of Hazards Any missing? Hierarchical classification? Contribute to global accounting 1420 February 2014