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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

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Lisbon Bristol

Hazur pre-assessment

Barcelona - services

Flooding

Lisbon - risk

Bristol - flood zones & infrastructuresResponders

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