Value of RISKBASE
RISKBASE will enhance the above described state-of-the-art primarily by organising meetings (workshops and General Assemblies) and by setting-up of a web-based information exchange structure, supported by EUGRIS. Thus optimum opportunities are created for leading European scientists and representatives of major, European stakeholder groups to, upon invitation, participate in reviewing and synthesising the outcome of EC FP4-FP6 projects, and other major initiatives, related to integrated risk assessment-based management of the water-sediment-soil system at the river-basin scale. Based upon that synthesis, amongst others, the European research agenda related to risk-based management will be proposed.
The DPSIR framework provided the basic framework for selection and structuring of work packages and their work to be done in order to meet the RISKBASE objectives. The different DPSIR components are divided and positioned in a plain that differentiates between the 'physical system' and the 'societal system'. The physical system includes the natural/physical river-basin components (ground)water, sediment and soil. Related to the input of knowledge and experience - i.e. a key prerequisite for the success of RISKBASE - the physical system is studied by natural-physical related sciences disciplines, such as: geology, (geo)chemistry, (micro)biology, ecotoxicology, meteorology, modelling etc. The societal system is more the domain of socio-economic, juridical and governance disciplines.
The DPSIR framework as basis for the RISKBASE project structure.