Prevention and management of disasters – technologies for disaster reduction

Location in the catastrophic cycle	Competency	Institute
Prevention	Earthquake safe construction, retrofit of buildings	Institute for Reinforced Concrete and Building Materials
	Land use planning, urban planning	Institute for Regional Sciences & Institute of Urban and Regional Planning http://www.ifr.kit.edu/ Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis http://www.itas.kit.edu/ Institute for Industrial Production http://www.iip.kit.edu/ Zentrum für Angewandte Rechtswissenschaft (ZAR) http://compliance.zar.kit.edu/
	Insurance	Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis http://insurance.fbv.kit.edu/
	Vulnerability analysis, identification of highly vulnerable structures, optimized allocation of resources	Institute for Industrial Production http://www.iip.kit.edu/
Initiation of catastrophic events	Early warning Loss prognosis for various sectors including fatalities	Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research http://www.imk-tro.kit.edu/ Geophysical Institute (GPI) http://www.gpi.kit.edu/ Institute for Water and River Basin Management http://iwk.iwg.kit.edu/ Institute of Highway and Railway Systems http://eisenbahn.ise.kit.edu/ Institute for Economic Policy and Economic Research (IWW) Netzwerkökonomie http://netze.iww.kit.edu/ Institute for Industrial Production Research (Network Economy) http://www.iip.kit.edu/ Institute for Nuclear and Energy Technologies http://www.iket.kit.edu/136.php Institute for Technology and Management in Construction http://www.tmb.kit.edu/ Geophysical Institute http://www.gpi.kit.edu/
Intervention	Decision support in emergency cases Operational systems	Institute for Nuclear and Energy Technologies (Accident Management Systems) http://www.iket.kit.edu/136.php Institute for Industrial Production http://www.iip.kit.edu/ Institute for Technology and Management in Construction http://www.tmb.kit.edu/ Institute for Regional Sciences & Institute of Urban and Regional Planning http://www.ifr.kit.edu/ Institute for Water and River Basin Management http://iwk.iwg.kit.edu/
	Ressourcen-optimierung	Institute for Economic Policy and Economic Research (Network Economy) http://netze.iww.kit.edu/ Institute for Industrial Production http://www.iip.kit.edu/ Institute for Technology and Management in Construction http://www.tmb.kit.edu/
	Detection and classification of damage and loss	Institute for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing http://www.ipf.kit.edu/ Institute for Reinforced Concrete and Building Materials http://www.imb.kit.edu/mb/ Institute for Technology and Management in Construction http://www.tmb.kit.edu/
	Rescue and recovery technologies	Institute for Technology and Management in Construction http://www.tmb.kit.edu/
	Emergency supply	Engler Bunter Institute – Chair Water Chemistry http://www.wasserchemie.ebi.kit.edu/
	Situation analysis	Institute for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing http://www.ipf.kit.edu/
Reconstruction	Land use and urban planning	Institute for Regional Sciences & Institute of Urban and Regional Planning http://www.ifr.kit.edu/ Institute for Industrial Production http://www.iip.kit.edu/
	Sustainability	Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis http://www.itas.kit.edu/ Center for Applied Legal Studies http://compliance.zar.kit.edu/
Risk communication	Crowd sourcing, cognitive aspects, decision support	Institute for Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods http://www.aifb.kit.edu/ Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis http://www.itas.kit.edu/ Institute for Industrial Production http://www.iip.kit.edu/
Legal risk aspects		Center for Applied Legal Studies http://compliance.zar.kit.edu/