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Abstract

Urban environments are challenged with unprecedented anthropogenic and natural pressures, the latter being accelerated by the growing awareness of the consequences of climate change. The concept of urban resilience has been growing in response, since it allows us to understand city behaviour as a system of systems, improving its response to extreme climate-related events. This paper presents the EU H2020 Resilience to Cope with Climate Change in Urban Areas (RESCCUE) project approach in Lisbon’s research site, regarding the Hazur® resilience assessment methodology. This methodology focuses on the interdependencies between services and infrastructures, and on the recovery times needed to restore its normal functionalities. This approach allows the integration of several work packages of the RESCCUE project, from climate change projections to adaptation strategies selection. The assessment was conducted for 19 services and 146 infrastructures, including water (supply and drainage systems), power, mobility, waste, telecommunication, environment, and the social sector. The principal climate-related hazard analysed at the Lisbon research site was urban flooding. The main result consists of a deep understanding of the relations between different services and the consequent cascade effects triggered by flooding events. Stakeholders’ involvement, beyond the project consortium, was fundamental for the success of the methodology implementation.

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Title
Assessing Urban Resilience in Complex and Dynamic Systems: The RESCCUE Project Approach in Lisbon Research Site
Author
Barreiro, João 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Lopes, Ruth 2 ; Ferreira, Filipa 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Brito, Rita 3 ; Maria João Telhado 4 ; José Saldanha Matos 2 ; Rafaela Saldanha Matos 3 

 CERIS, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal; [email protected] 
 HIDRA, Hidráulica e Ambiente Lda., Av. Defensores de Chaves, n. 31–1º Esq., 1000-111 Lisboa, Portugal; [email protected] (R.L.); [email protected] (J.S.M.) 
 National Civil Engineering Laboratory, LNEC, Av. Brasil 101, 1700-066 Lisboa, Portugal; [email protected] (R.B.); [email protected] (R.S.M.) 
 Lisbon City Council, Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, CML, Praça José Queirós, n. 1–3º piso–Fração 5, 1800-237 Lisboa, Portugal; [email protected] 
First page
8931
Publication year
2020
Publication date
2020
Publisher
MDPI AG
e-ISSN
20711050
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2548848423
Copyright
© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.