These documents support the development by any city of their resilience action plans. A template with guidance to write a Resilience Action Plan (RAP) is provided, regarding climate change, with focus on the water cycle. The city may complete or adapt the template suggestions to fit better its own context and expectations for this document.

It is a document containing the resilience action plan for each city defining the roadmap for resilience enhancement, to climate change with focus on water. It includes the information on the work already existing in the city, definition of climatic scenarios, characterization of the context, and hazards, risk and resilience assessment, description and implementation planning of strategies to be implemented to improve resilience. It is a thematic plan that can contribute to the city’s global resilience plan and it was built based on RESCCUE’s template and guidelines and on the results obtained, using the tools and approaches developed in RESCCUE.

RESCCUE RAF-APP is a tool to facilitate undertaking a structured urban resilience assessment to climate change providing easy visualization of results through graphical representation. The tool enables assessing the development level of city resilience, considering strategic services and interdependencies contributions to city resilience. Services included are water supply, wastewater, storm water and waste management, energy distribution and mobility. It also supports to assess resilience development level of the service. This allows identifying the main strengths and weaknesses in the city and services. Its main purpose is to support decision in the development of resilience action plans and assess progress.

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It is an approach that provides a planning process by defining the main steps to follow to develop resilience action plans, It includes the information needed to produce an action plan for enhancing resilience of any city, based on the work already existing in the city, the definition of climatic scenarios, characterization of the context and hazards, risk and resilience assessment and development of strategies to be implemented to improve resilience.

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• Following a Step by Step Development of a Resilience Action Plan >

RESCCUE RAF is a framework that provides a structured system for urban resilience assessment to climate change, considering four dimensions: organisational integrating top-down governance relations and urban population involvement; spatial referring to urban space and environment; functional regarding strategic services’ resilience and physical looking at infrastructures’ resilience. It is objective-driven enabling to assess the development level of city resilience, considering strategic services and interdependencies contributions to city resilience. Services included are water supply, wastewater, storm water and waste management, electrical energy and mobility. Its main purpose is to support decision in the development of resilience action plans and assess progress.

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• Approach to develop a climate change resilience assessment framework >
• RAF Resilience Assessment Framework – a tool to support cities’ action planning >
• Avaliação da resiliência dos serviços urbanos de águas face às alterações climáticas >

A prioritization methodology has been developed to rank the proposed climate adaptation measures. This methodology will assist to decision makers to select the most efficient measures in terms of both their costs and the degree of risk reduction that they can guarantee. Besides, the methodology has been integrated into a web-based platform that will assist the decision makers to conduct the process of prioritization. The platform includes an extensive database of adaptation measures gathered by the different project partners based on their experience in the three cities that act as case studies in the project (Barcelona, Bristol and Lisbon)

The Direct Damage Assessment data for the Bristol case study is derived via the analysing water depths that are in contact with buildings to estimate the damages based on the building use and the associated depth-damage relationship. The functions for Bristol are obtained from the Multi-colour Manual (MCM ). The MCM contains information derived from historical insurance data that relates damage estimates to properties based on surrounding flood depth and said properties land use classification. The dataset herein presented outlines the aggregated damages to flooded buildings based on their exposure to flood waters and their respective depth-damage curves. 

This tool seeks to help with the strategic planning and future operational decisions oriented to prevent possible problems caused by extreme flooding events in the electrical network through the risk assessment and major risk identification on electrical assets, the estimation of associated costs and reliability indices. The tool has been developed on the open-source GIS platform QGIS, building on FEMA fragility curves and the methodology presented in “Electrical Grid Risk Assessment Against Flooding in Barcelona and Bristol Cities” paper.

GIS-based methodology designed for the assessment of electrical substations and distribution centres in case of extreme flooding events and extensible to other climate extreme events such as earthquakes, heat waves, and extreme windstorms if electric poles are also included into the assessment. This methodology has been thoroughly explained in “Electrical Grid Risk Assessment Against Flooding in Barcelona and Bristol Cities” paper.

Hazard and risk maps were generated from the integrated flooding-electrical simulations in Barcelona and Bristol cities. The Maps indicates the locations with hazard potential, level of risk, and the estimated cost quantification of these risks for different return periods and scenarios provided in the flooding models.

Hydrodynamic outputs (flood depths) were used to feed the flood direct damage model. This model, based on this information, detailed land use maps and tailored flood depth damage curves, provided economic risk maps for different return periods related to current and future scenarios (including Business as usual and Adaptation scenarios).

Hazard maps were also combined with vulnerability maps to provide flood risk maps for pedestrian and vehicles. Risk maps were obtained for different return periods related to current and future scenarios (including Business as usual and Adaptation scenarios).

Integrated urban drainage – marine model provided temporal and spatial evolution of pollution in receiving bathing water. Dataset is built with time series of rainfall, CSO discharges and pollution in representative points of bathing water during the characteristic bathing season of the year 2009.

Critical infrastructures and services potentially exposed to sea level rise for the horizon of 2100 have been represented by exposure maps for RCPs 4.5 and 8.5 scenarios.

According to the integrated flooding-traffic model in Barcelona, flood hazard maps were obtained by GIS spatial analysis of the flooded road links (with specific rules applied in relation to traffic speed reductions) and by flow depths provided by 1D/2D hydrodynamic model. Moreover, the dataset is built on the results of TranscCAD modelling software that, on the basis of pre-calculated hazard maps, was used to simulate the flood economic impacts due to traffic disruption. Simulations were carried out for current and future scenarios (including Business as usual and Adaptation scenarios).

The outputs of the hydrodynamic model (flood extension, flood depths and velocities) were used to generate flood hazard maps for pedestrian and vehicles according to experimental hazard criteria. Simulations were performed for different return periods related to current and future scenarios (including Business as usual and Adaptation scenarios) obtaining a specific hazard map for each case.

This dataset offers detailed information at a local scale about the future changes in the frequency and intensity of a wide variety of extreme variables due to climate change. The main variables analysed are: temperature-related events (heat waves, maximum temperature, tropical night, warm day, etc.), extreme rainfall, or storm surge, among others. The information provided follows the RCP 4.5 and 8.5, and is divided into three time periods: 2011-2040, 2041-2070 and 2071-2100. Thanks to the methodology implemented in RESCCUE, the use of quality-tested weather observations allows the replicability of these results into any other location.