Open AccessA General Multi-Risk Assessment Method for Natural Disasters and CBRNe Attacks
Author(s) -
Marco Carbonelli,
L. Gratta
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of safety and security engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.202
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 2041-904X
pISSN - 2041-9031
DOI - 10.18280/ijsse.110407
Subject(s) - vulnerability (computing) , vulnerability assessment , risk assessment , homeland security , disaster risk reduction , risk analysis (engineering) , work (physics) , computer science , natural disaster , terrorism , computer security , engineering , business , environmental resource management , political science , environmental science , law , geography , medicine , mechanical engineering , meteorology , psychiatry , psychological intervention
This work is the result of a research activity started in 2012 to deploy a method for risk assessment to be applied by the Italian Civil Protection and Civil Defence to protect critical infrastructures. The here presented Multi-Risk Assessment Method (MRAM), illustrates the complete approach, provided by this research activity, suitable to estimate both impact and risk in qualitative, semi-quantitative and quantitative fashion for catastrophic or calamitous events, including terrorist non-conventional CBRNe attacks. In the paper a vulnerability reduction assessment methodology is also hinted with an analysis of the relation of MRAM with the USA RAMCAP approach adopted by Department of Homeland Security. The MRAM provides a method for risk assessment, and was also recently implemented in forecasting software tools by some Italian local administrations.