CM Gaps Explorer

1. Faciliate expressing the practitioners The means to accomplish one or more tasks under specific conditions.

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   needs and Gaps.
2. Faciliate the understanding of these needs by

   A solution is a means that contributes to a crisis management function. A solution is either one or more processes or one or more tools with related procedures.

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   owners, so that they can develop and advertise the innovative Solutions resolving them.
3. Faciliate discovering of the innovative Solutions addressing the

   Crisis and Disaster Management

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   needs and Gaps.

Limitations in the cross vulnerabilities (people, property, environment) Assessment is a test, examination or similar, designed to assess a candidate’s knowledge, understanding or skills in a defined area. DRIVER+ note 1: candidate can be a person or a solution, example given: assessment of a solution in a Trial.

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to optimize task prioritization and decision making.

The ability to rapidly identify hazardous agents and contaminants

Barriers in The means to accomplish one or more tasks under specific conditions.

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to provide medical assistance to casualties either by transporting them to a safe place or bringing

Sudden, urgent, usually unexpected occurrence or event requiring immediate action.
Note 1 to entry: An emergency is usually a disruption or condition that can often be anticipated or prepared for, but seldom exactly foreseen.

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medical service to the scene (when medical care is not provided by firefighters’ units) - especially in forest fires.

Limitations in the planning of resources (qualified personnel and equipment) for

Actions taken during or immediately after a disaster in order to save lives, reduce health impacts, ensure public safety and meet the basic subsistence needs of the people affected.

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during large scale and long-term

Unstable condition involving an impending abrupt or significant change that requires urgent attention and action to protect life, assets, property or the environment.
 

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Understanding how future changes in climate will affect forest fires and associated emissions of greenhouse gases, in Europe and globally, is important to determine adaptation and

Limitation of any negative consequence of a particular incident.

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potential of forests.

Understanding ecosystem's vulnerability and potential to adapt to such changes can help developing proactive

Measures that enable an organization to avoid, preclude or limit the impact of an undesirable event or potential disruption.

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and post-fire regeneration strategies.

Understanding how the changes in social and economic characteristics of the population can create conditions of increased fire

Effect of uncertainty on objectives.

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across the various regions and countries, is a prerequisite to reduce the level of exposure of local communities through better landscape planning.

Danger rating index is an important real time indicator for the fire fighters. It sums up constant (fuels, topography) and variable (weather) factors that affect the initiation, spread and difficulty of control, and subsequent fire damage of wildfires on an area in a single number that can be easily visualised and used for early alerting.

As an evaluator one has to have a good understanding of what the participants want to achieve to be able to know, whether the scenarios of the

Process to train for, assess, practise and improve performance in an organization.
Note 1 to entry: Exercises can be used for validating policies, plans, procedures, training , equipment, and inter-organizational agreements; clarifying and training personnel in roles and responsibilities; improving inter­organizational coordination and communications; identifying gaps in resources; improving individual performance and identifying opportunities for improvement; and a controlled opportunity to practise improvisation.
Note 2 to entry: See also test.

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supported these learning opportunities or not.

In strategic exercises the achievement of (pre-set) goals has to be validated. These are usually related to decision-making processes. Due to a variety of criteria and nuances in conditions for achievement this can pose a challenge to evaluators.

To collect as much as possible information (metadata) describing the circumstances of the

Method of data collection in which the situation of interest is watched and the relevant facts, actions and behaviours are recorded.

DRIVER+ Note 1: Please consider also the notes in the original definition.

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. This approach is in accordance with commonly used the evidence-based methodology, helping to draw more credible conclusions. The excessive registered information may be omitted during analysis, but unregistered information cannot be easily retrieved.