The Scientific Steering Committee of MAP (MSC) decided to develop a societal impact subprogram within MAP.
In order to formulate and develop this program, the MSC organized a workshop prior to its meeting at Bad Tölz in October 2002.
Participants were members of the MSC and four
societal impacts experts: Leonard Smith (Oxford University), Rebecca Morss (NCAR), Eve Gruntfest (University of Colorado),
and Rita Hausmann (MunichRe reinsurance). The first part of the workshop consisted of presentations of the MAP program,
available data, simulations, and key scientific results as well as existing work on societal impacts of (intense) weather events.
In a second part concrete steps for further collaboration between the two communities were discussed. It is expected to have several
societal impact papers at the next MAP meeting in Brig.
