Module 4

Self-test your knowledge

This section is meant to be a place where to self-test the acquired knowledge and as a mean for a self-evaluation of knowledge level about the specific subject of vulnerability and resilience assessment. The activities here proposed also aims at introducing you to the knowledge building needs and to the sequence of actions required to autonomously  develop an assessment process.

The external intervention not being previewed, the activities are organized with answers and the indication of theoretical and methodological knowledge references into the e-learning site

The activities have been developed according to the main knowledge goals of the ENSURE Project and try to retrace the contents from an operational perspective. You will then asked to try to develop actions like:

  • to identify and find essential elements in order to obtain a first knowledge picture of the specific territorial system;
  • to recognize usable information/knowledge from images, maps and other visual documents describing natural and na-tech hazards;
  • to select key territorial subjects in order to organize the vulnerability assessment activity;
  • to assess the quality of data;
  • to organize indicators and build up assessment tables;
  • to develop a vulnerability and/or resilience assessment;
  • to put in evidence the main results of the assessment process;
  • to suggest some possible vulnerability management suggestions to local subjects.