Post on 06-Oct-2020
RESilience to cope with Climate Change impacts in Urban arEas –
a multisectorial approach focusing on water
RESCCUE IN BRIEF
Budget: 8 M€ Requested EU contribution: 6,9 M€
Number of partners: 18
Coordinator: Pere Malgrat (Aquatec – Suez Water Advanced Solutions)
Main structure: 8 WP
Starting date: 01/05/2016 End date: 30/04/2020
The main objective of the RESCCUE project is to help urban areas around the world to
become more resilient to climate change.
The specific goals of the RESCCUE project can be summarized as follows:
� To deliver a framework enabling city resilience assessment, planning and
management
� To develop an adaptation strategies portfolio, including nature-based solutions,
and test it in the 3 research sites: Barcelona, Lisbon and Bristol
� To elaborate a Resilience Action Plan (RAP) for each project research site
Research sites: Barcelona, Bristol, Lisbon
� Members of 100 Resilient cities network (program by Rockefeller Foundation)
� Strong commitment with resilience and climate change
� City Resilience Officer with clear role in city strategies to improve urban resilience
� Different climate variables & affected services considered in the RESCCUE project
� Urban water cycle in the core
� Flooding and urban drainage are the links among the three cities
� Need to develop RAP
APPROACH
RESEARCH SITES
FIRST ADVANCEMENTS
WP1 � Climate change scenarios generation in the RESCCUE
cities for different weather variables (temperature, rainfall,
sea level rise, ...)
Statistical downscaling of GCMs
results by FIC-method
WP2 � Development of detailed sectorial models of strategic
urban services during extreme events (heavy storms heat
wave, ...) to assess hazard levels for current and future
scenarios
Advanced tools and integrated
models with high TRL
WP3 � Risk assessment of climate change impacts on urban
services crossing local vulnerability at the three research sites
and hazards inputs provided by sectorial models
Risk maps crossing vulnerability and
hazard inputs
WP4 � Analysis of the interdependencies among critical
urban services and infrastructures and cascade effects during
crisis episodes using a holistic approach
Specific software for urban
resilience analysis: the HAZUR tool
WP5 � Definition of adaptation strategies (including NBS,
structural and non-structural measures) to face with climate
change reducing risk impacts and increasing resilience
Measures database and
implementation of Multicriteria
Analysis for prioritizing
WP6 � Implementation of the RESCCUE roadmap in the three
research sites achieving Resilience Action Plans (RAP)
according to the commitment of 100 Resilient Cities program
Elaboration of RAP and a manual of
resilience best practices for
implementation in other cities
Climate projections for research sites
DJF
1980 2010 2040 2070
-100
-60
-20
2060
100
Cha
nge
(%) Historical
RCP45RCP85
HistoricalRCP45RCP85
MAM
1980 2010 2040 2070 2100
-100
-60
-20
2060
100
Cha
nge
(%) Historical
RCP45RCP85
HistoricalRCP45RCP85
JJA
1980 2010 2040 2070
-100
-60
-20
2060
100
Cha
nge
(%)
HistoricalRCP45RCP85
HistoricalRCP45RCP85
SON
1980 2010 2040 2070 2100
-100
-60
-20
2060
100
Cha
nge
(%)
HistoricalRCP45RCP85
HistoricalRCP45RCP85
Barcelona
Precipitation -
% change
DJF
1980 2010 2040 2070
-100
-60
-20
2060
100
year
Cha
nge
(%) Historical
RCP45RCP85
HistoricalRCP45RCP85
MAM
1980 2010 2040 2070 2100
-100
-60
-20
2060
100
year
Cha
nge
(%) Historical
RCP45RCP85
HistoricalRCP45RCP85
JJA
1980 2010 2040 2070
-100
-60
-20
2060
100
year
Cha
nge
(%)
HistoricalRCP45RCP85
HistoricalRCP45RCP85
SON
1980 2010 2040 2070 2100
-100
-60
-20
2060
100
year
Cha
nge
(%)
HistoricalRCP45RCP85
HistoricalRCP45RCP85
DJF
1980 2010 2040 2070
-100
-60
-20
2060
100
year
Cha
nge
(%) Historical
RCP45RCP85
HistoricalRCP45RCP85
MAM
1980 2010 2040 2070 2100
-100
-60
-20
2060
100
year
Cha
nge
(%) Historical
RCP45RCP85
HistoricalRCP45RCP85
JJA
1980 2010 2040 2070
-100
-60
-20
2060
100
year
Cha
nge
(%)
HistoricalRCP45RCP85
HistoricalRCP45RCP85
SON
1980 2010 2040 2070 2100
-100
-60
-20
2060
100
year
Cha
nge
(%)
HistoricalRCP45RCP85
HistoricalRCP45RCP85
Lisbon Bristol
Hazur pre-assessment
Barcelona - services
Flooding
Lisbon - risk
Bristol - flood zones & infrastructuresResponders
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