A methodological approach to classify good practices for urban and metropolitan risk management

The proposed methodology is based on the development of criteria and indicators of Good Practices for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in multi-risk scenarios, derived from a comprehensive review of established practices in scientific literature, carried out with the direct involvement of Stakeholders. The latter, understood as interest bearers but also as actors who receive benefits from the actions in which they are engaged, are usually only involved in some phases of DRR, mainly in those that concern the implementation of decisions that have already been taken. Considering that the meaning of “Good Practice” is highly debated in the literature, and starting from the definition proposed by Olivier Serrat, referred to as “anything that has been tried and shown to work in some way”, the objective of this work is to engage a variety of societal Stakeholders (experts, local administrators, civil society) in all the phases of DRR, as bearers of knowledge, expertise and competences fundamental to assess the effectiveness of both existing and new DRR practices.