Profiling urban vulnerabilities to climate change: An indicator-based vulnerability assessment for European cities
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2017-07-01
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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.
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Adaptation to climate change , Adaptive capacity , Cities , Climate change , Index , Indicator-based vulnerability assessment , Indicators , Sensitivity , Vulnerability , General Decision Sciences , Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics , Ecology , SDG 13 - Climate Action , SDG 6 - Clean Water and Sanitation , SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth , SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
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Tapia , C , Abajo , B , Feliu , E , Mendizabal , M , Martinez , J A , Fernández , J G , Laburu , T & Lejarazu , A 2017 , ' Profiling urban vulnerabilities to climate change : An indicator-based vulnerability assessment for European cities ' , Ecological Indicators , vol. 78 , pp. 142-155 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2017.02.040