Water-focused city resilience roadmap
Use these guidelines to:
Create and apply a roadmap to improve your city’s resilience to climate change with focus on water
If water-related risks may condition the correct functioning of your city, and climate change may significantly aggravate them, then you need a RAP with this focus.
By searching for the best responses for the gaps in your diagnosis, the RAP:
• grasps your vision for the future;
• identifies the resilience objectives for your city
and its urban services;
• states where you stand today;
• defines the road towards the objective
Besides, RAP monitoring and review keeps track of the implementation of resilience strategies in your city, to make sure they have been properly followed and warns you if changes in the road are needed.
5 steps to your solution:
What is your concern?
How resilient is your city?
Do you want to be advanced in resilience?
What should you do?
What do you need?
What is your concern?
Do you have a problem related to water and climate change in your city?
Check if these items apply:
If you selected at least one item, then you need a RAP for your city, with special focus on climate change and water.
You have to deal with water-related problems.
Your water problems affect several urban services.
You don’t know the benefits of implementing resilience-oriented actions.
Climate change aggravates these water problems.
You don’t know how to improve your city’s resilience.
What do we mean by focus on water?
Among other climate-related hazards, water might compromise your city’s resilience if expected changes in climate variables occur. This might be related to how water services are prepared and respond to the hazards or to cascading effects to related services.
Hazards:
Variables:
Water services:
Related services:
How resilient is your city?
Let’s see how resilient you are to climate-related hazards:
You don’t know how to assess this matter.
Let’s start now!
Significant steps have already been taken.
Keep going!
Actions for resilience are at an early stage of development.
Let’s improve!
Consolidated actions are already in place, results are showing. You are advanced in resilience!
Monitor and update your RAP!
And share your experience with others!
Do you want to be advanced in resilience?
A resilient city, with its resilient services, is able to do:
What
Respond and recover
Mitigate
Learn from the past
Prepare for the future
Adapt Transform
When
Today
In the next years
In the next decades
Who
Higher-level decision-makers, spanning the entire city or service. Action providers, materializing the strategies both geographically and temporally.
Stakeholders, all those interested in the functioning of the city.
RESCCUE solves your problems
This is how!
What should you do?
Develop a RAP!
Know!
Know your city and its urban services.
Assess!
Assess how resilient are your city and services by diagnosing your resilience maturity and constraints
Plan!
What do you want to accomplish regarding resilience? Identify your resilience objectives.
Which actions will improve your resilience?
Where will you apply these actions and which ones will you prioritize?
When will you carry out these actions?
Who is going to implement them?
Do it!
Implement, monitor and review the RAP.
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Diagnose and plan for:
Your city
Organisational resilience: governance relations, population involvement.
Spatial resilience: urban space and environment.
Your services
Functional resilience: provision of strategic services.
Physical resilience: infrastructure of strategic services.
Use our tools
RAF app
The RESCCUE’s Resilience Assessment Framework app (RAF app) is a web-based platform based on metrics designed to support objective-oriented resilience characterization, diagnosis, planning and implementation.
Visualize your results
Graphs, tables and charts help to understand, analize and display data.
RAP template
The RAP template structures your plan, setting guidance on the contents and layout, that any city might complete or adapt to better fit its own context and expectations.
What do you need?
Know your city.
Know your services and infrastructures.
Gather a multidisciplinary team.
Recall your past climate events’ characteristics and impacts.
Acknowledge what already contributes to your resilience.
Project your climate change scenarios.
Simulate the effects of climate change on your city and services.
Choose strategies that enhance your resilience.
Acknowledge compliance with your resilience objectives while implementing those strategies.
Resilience Action Plans development and implementation experts:
Several RESCCUE partners worked together under the leadership of LNEC to develop and implement the Resilience Action Plans (RAP) for Barcelona, Lisbon and Bristol:
– LNEC (Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil)
– UN-Habitat
– Câmara Municipal de Lisboa
– Ajuntament de Barcelona
– Bristol City Council
– Aquatec-Suez Advanced Solutions
– University of Exeter
LNEC is a public institute of Science and Technology that carries out research in all fields of civil engineering, giving it a unique multidisciplinary perspective.
The institute has long been involved in assessment frameworks development, supporting planning activities in the water sector and promoting sustainable and resilient water services and cities.
LNEC actively participates in several international projects related to climate change adaptation.
Expert contact info:
Contact us if you want to develop a RAP for your city!
LNEC – National Laboratory for Civil Engineering Av. do Brasil, 101, 1700-066 Lisboa, Portugal macardoso@lnec.pt / lnec@lnec.pt www.lnec.pt
Tools & Results
Publication
RAP templates & guidelines
Water-focused city resilience roadmap
+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.
Publication
Resilience Action Plan of Lisbon
Water-focused city resilience roadmap
+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.
Publication
Resilience Action Plan of Bristol
Water-focused city resilience roadmap
+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.
Publication
Resilience Action Plan of Barcelona
Water-focused city resilience roadmap
+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.
Tool
RESCCUE Assessment Framework tool for application
Water-focused city resilience roadmap
+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.
Registration is required to use the RAF APP. Please contact macardoso@lnec.pt.
Methodology
Framework for the Resilience Action Plan
Water-focused city resilience roadmap
+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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Methodology
Framework for cities resilience assessment
Water-focused city resilience roadmap
+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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