Welcome to the CREW Website

The project ‘Community Resilience to Extreme Weather' (CREW) aims to gain a better understanding of the effects of extreme weather events and to develop a set of tools for improving the resilience of local communities.

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The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has funded the CREW programme to bring together scientists from a range of engineering, social and physical sciences from 14 UK Universities to determine likely future extreme weather events and to develop a set of useful web-based mapping and information tools.

Climate change is already happening - as the Stern Report on the Economics of Climate Change identifies. Even if we could stop all greenhouse gas emissions tomorrow our climate would continue to change due to global warming driven by over a century of manmade emissions. As a consequence, the risk of extreme weather events such as flooding, heatwaves and storms is likely to continue increasing over the next half century. Today's weather extremes are increasingly likely to become tomorrow's norms.

Whilst research is being undertaken into many aspects of weather events - for example prediction, warning systems, infrastructure effects, health effects, disaster reaction - until now, there has been no common forum to look at how science and engineering can improve society's ability to cope with extreme weather events.

This web site will also be used to post news and provide an interactive space for discussion. There will also be annual meetings where all interested parties are invited to listen to progress and exchange ideas and information.

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The project has a number of inter-linked work programme packages:

• PP1 Coping Technologies - People and Buildings
• PP2 Community Coping - Resilience capacity and coping strategies
• PP3 Impacts - Socio-Economic simulators (EWESEM)
• PP4 Hazards - Extreme Weather Event Simulators (SWERVE)
• PP5 Dissemination - Web-display and interface for programme outputs (WISP)
• PP6 Management - Project coordination and management

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If you are a CREW Project Partner, please register to create an account and then contact the Administrator.