Abstract
Abstract Urban areas are complex, vulnerable and continuously evolving, with interacting strategic services, assets and stakeholders. Potential effects of climate dynamics on urban areas may include the aggravation of current conditions, with identification of new hazards or risk drivers. These challenges require an integrated and forward-looking approach to sustainable urban development. Several tools and frameworks for assessing resilience have already been developed in different fields of study. However, aiming to focus on climate change, urban services and infrastructure, some specific needs were identified. In this light, a resilience assessment framework was developed to direct and facilitate an objective-driven resilience diagnosis of urban cities and services; to support decisions on selection of resilience measures and development of strategies to enhance resilience to climate change; to outline a path to co-build resilience action plans; and to track the progress of resilience in the city or in the service over time. The paper presents an outline of the structure of the framework and details the approach used in its development, including engagement tools and actions undertaken to assure stakeholder involvement in its development, validation and testing.
Highlights
Urban areas are complex, vulnerable and continuously evolving, with interacting strategic services, such as water supply, wastewater, storm water and solid waste management, energy supply or mobility
Step 1 is based on a literature review of existing assessment frameworks for assessing resilience
Several tools and frameworks for assessing resilience have been developed in diverse fields of study by a wide variety of organisations such as ICLEI (2010), UN-Habitat CRPT (2018), Rockefeller Foundation and Arup Group (2014), World Bank (2015), UNISDR (2017), EPA (2017), among others (Patel & Nosal 2016; EPA 2017; Summers et al 2017; UNIDSR 2017). They present substantial variation in their structure, content and complexity, a review is carried out taking into consideration the mentioned scope (CC) and focus of the present work
Summary
Vulnerable and continuously evolving, with interacting strategic services, such as water supply, wastewater, storm water and solid waste management, energy supply or mobility. Interacting services, interdependencies between systems and the involvement of multiple stakeholders add complexity to the management of resilience in these areas. Climate dynamics effects on urban areas, including intense precipitation, increased coastal water level or droughts, can significantly affect strategic urban services, people, natural and built environment and economy. Climate change (CC) trends aggravate current conditions and lead potentially to emergence of new hazards. These challenges require an integrated and forward-looking approach to resilient and sustainable urban development, incorporating the interdependencies between systems and a continuously improvement process.
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