Essays about: "Josefin Henriksen"

Found 1 essay containing the words Josefin Henriksen.

  1. 1. Integrating environment into humanitarian risk - Development and use of an environmental emergency risk index to inform capacity development interventions

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Riskhantering (CI); Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

    Author : Josefin Henriksen; Heidi Sillanpää; [2014]
    Keywords : index; indicators; risk perception; risk; environmental emergency; weighting; normalisation; aggregation; transformation; hazards; vulnerability; capacity; InfoRM; EER Index; natural hazards; technological hazards; EPI; Technology and Engineering;

    Abstract : This master thesis is an attempt to investigate to what extent the Environmental Emergency Risk Index (EER Index), which was recently developed by the Joint UNEP/OCHA Environment Unit (JEU), fit field staff and expert perceptions of environmental emergency risk. The findings reveal that the EER Index does not coincide very well with the views of the experts and field staff and that there are some methodological aspects of the development of the index that need to be further refined. READ MORE