Local climate change projections
We design tools to simulate expected changes in future climate and assess how they may affect us through risk and vulnerability analysis.
About the project
The RESCCUE approach turned a new page by moving away from sectoral approaches, viewing cities as networks of interdependent systems. The four-year project went beyond the conventional analysis of climate change impacts on individual critical infrastructures, such as energy, water or transportation. RESCCUE’s perspective was holistic, focusing on interconnections rather than individual sectors or elements of the urban fabric.
Objectives
The objective of RESCCUE was to produce a set of models and tools to analyze urban resilience with a multi-sectoral approach, to overcome the current difficulties related to the lack of integration of information from different urban services. To interconnect sectoral models, the project leverages RESCCUE tools and methodologies as a basis for future software developments capable of performing urban resilience assessment, management and planning in an integrated way.
The three cities included as pilot sites (Barcelona, Lisbon and Bristol) were the validation platforms for the RESCCUE tool, where integrated urban resilience analyses were conducted throughout the project.
The resilience roadmap for these cities, in the form of a Resilience Action Plan (RAP), was one of the key outputs of the project. Conducted at the end, each presented the strategic lines on which the city should focus, also considering the concrete measures to be implemented to solve specific problems. However, these results are not only intended to provide an overview of resilience development in Barcelona, Bristol and Lisbon, but are also intended to help many other cities around the world develop their capacity to adapt to current and future shocks and stresses.
Funded by
Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge through grants to third-sector entities or non-governmental organizations that carry out activities of general interest considered to be of social interest in the field of scientific and technical research and environmental protection under state jurisdiction. This research has been funded by the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge but does not express its opinion.
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