Integrated Assessment of Climate Change Impacts and Urban Resilience: from Climate and Hydrological Hazards to Risk Analysis and Measures
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Air, Climate Change and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2020) | Viewed by 72450
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Interests: urban drainage; inlet efficiency; flood risk assessment; urban resilience; combined sewer overflows (CSOs)
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Interests: Hydraulics, hydrology, urban drainage, flood risk management, flood damage assessments, urban resilience.
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We live in a world of cities, and that trend will continue in the future. Today, 54% of the world’s population lives in urban areas, a proportion that is expected to increase to 66% by 2050. Moreover, 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, this can affect basic urban services, such as water or energy supply, making the city capacity of continuously functioning crucial for most part of world population. As the United Nations stated, managing urban areas has become one of the most important development challenges of the 21st century.
In this context RESCCUE project (www.resccue.eu) aims to help urban areas around the world to become more resilient to climate change providing innovative models and tools to improve the ability of cities to withstand and recover quickly from multiple shocks and stresses and maintain continuity of services.
This Special Issue of Sustainability calls RESCCUE partners and stakeholders for innovative research papers coming from the scientific activities carried out during the last years that will advance our knowledge/capability in the field of Urban Resilience and Climate Change Adaptation with special concern on the following issues:
- Climate Impact Assessment
- Comprehensive risk assessment including direct/indirect and tangible/intangible impacts
- Multisectorial and multi-hazard approaches to assess urban resilience
- Climate-related hazards and cascading effects on critical services and infrastructures
- Nature Based Solutions for building urban resilience
- CBA and MCA for adaptation measures prioritization
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Prof. Dr. Beniamino Russo
Dr. Eduardo Martínez-Gomariz
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Urban floods
- tangible damages
- damage models
- flood-depth damage curves
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