Journal
ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS
Volume 78, Issue -, Pages 142-155Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2017.02.040
Keywords
Climate change; Vulnerability; Indicator-based vulnerability assessment; Sensitivity; Adaptive capacity; Index; Indicators; Cities; Adaptation to climate change
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- European Union's Seventh Programme for Research, Technological Development and Demonstration (Project RAMSES) [308497]
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Governing climate change in cities entails a good understanding of urban vulnerabilities. This research presents an Indicator-based Vulnerability Assessment for 571 European cities. Basing on panel data from Urban Audit database and a set of newly developed indicators, we assessed urban vulnerabilities for the following impact chains: (i) heatwaves on human health; (ii) drought on water planning, and; (iii) flooding (sub-divided into pluvial, fluvial and coastal) on the socio-economic tissue and the urban fabric. Results shed light on the key challenges that specific groups of European cities face in order to better deal with the expected impacts of climate change. This knowledge is a necessary step to advance in the understanding of urban risks to climate change and the development of effective EU policies for urban adaptation. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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