In the organisational structure of the Municipality of Lisbon, the Civil Protection Department (CPD) is responsible for the following areas:

• risk analysis (identification, analysis and assessment of risk situations);
• emergency planning;
• public information on civil protection;
• civil protection training.

In the organizational structure of the Municipality of Lisbon, the Department of Geographic Information and Cadastre (DIGC) is responsible for the following areas:

• to assure the urban development within the strategic model defined for the city, and in a dynamic, integrated and sustainable way;
• to develop a geographic information system on the city and surrounding area in order to assure up-to-date data for the decisions and interventions of municipal administrations;
• to assure the integration and articulation of Lisbon geographic data into the National Geographic Information System.

The metropolitan area of Lisbon covers 2,960 km2 and has about 2,7 million inhabitants.