Abstract
The RESCCUE Project is an H2020 research project that aims to help cities around the world to become more resilient to physical, social, and economic challenges, using the water sector as the central point of the approach. RESCCUE will generate models and tools to bring this objective to practice, while delivering a framework enabling city resilience assessment, planning and management. This will be achieved by integrating software tools, methods, and new knowledge related to the detailed urban services performance into novel and promising loosely coupled models (integrated models), multi-risk assessment method, and a comprehensive resilience platform. These tools will allow urban resilience assessment from a multisectorial approach, for current and future climate change scenarios, including multiple hazards and cascading effects. The RESCCUE approach will be implemented in three EU cities (Barcelona, Bristol, and Lisbon) and, with the support of UN-Habitat, disseminate their results among other cities belonging to major international networks. The aim of this paper is to present the main goals of this project, as well as the approach followed and the main expected results after the four years of implementation, so other cities around the world can use the RESCCUE approach to increase their resilience.
Highlights
We already live in a world of cities, and that trend will continue in the future
RESCCUE will have a significant impact on the urban resilience sector in Europe, because it will
RESCCUE will have a significant impact on the urban resilience sector in Europe, because it will deliver tools to enable city resilience assessment, planning and management and it will incorporate deliver tools to enable city resilience assessment, planning and management and it will incorporate new knowledge of the urban systems performance under climate change conditions that is currently new knowledge of the urban systems performance under climate change conditions that is currently not integrated in this type of tools
Summary
Climate change will cause pressures and uncertainties that will pose challenges to the society, economy, and environment. In this case, focusing on the impacts on the urban living [2], this can affect basic urban services, such as water or energy supply, making the city capacity of continuously. According to UN-Habitat [3], urban resilience refers to the ability of human settlements to withstand and to recover quickly from any plausible hazards. Resilience against shocks and stresses refers to reducing risks and damage from disasters (i.e., loss of lives and assets), and the ability to quickly bounce back to a stable state, the ability to adapt and transform towards sustainability
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