RESCCUE

The specific objectives of RESCCUE are:

• To deliver a framework enabling city resilience assessment, planning and management.
• To develop an adaptation strategies portfolio, including nature-based solutions, and test it in the 3 research sites: Barcelona, Lisbon and Bristol.
• Elaborate a Resilience Action Plan (RAP) for each of the research sites, considering the inputs of all local partners and stakeholders and using all the outputs of RESCCUE.

Cities, being complexes of interdependent systems, cannot be understood by sectorial and disciplinary approaches alone. In this sense, RESCCUE goes beyond conventional urban resilience approaches delivering a forward looking, multi-scale, multisectorial and multi-hazard methodology. In order to interconnect the several sectorial models, the project will take advantage of the existent HAZUR® tool. The HAZUR® approach is based on a method and software (as a service) to help city decision makers and urban resilience professionals make fully informed and structured choices to make their cities more resilient analyzing the interdependencies between different city services, monitoring the city and simulating cascade effects in case of impacts that may affect the city.

Based on this holistic approach, RESCCUE will analyze an interconnectedness of different urban systems, taking as starting point the water sector. This sector has been highlighted due to the importance of water- related risks in the correct functioning of a city: droughts or heavy rains can produce critical impacts on strategic urban services such as water supply, solid waste, telecommunication, energy supply, transport, etc.

Watch a video on the RESCCUE project here. 

Most of world's population will end up living in cities, therefore it is critical and highly urgent to have tools available to assess, plan and monitor urban resilience in an integral way. This is where RESCCUE will contribute with a set of innovative tools for urban resilience assessment, planning and management. These tools will help cities with their climate change adaptation strategy and will also improve their current capacity to cope with emergencies.

The RESCCUE Toolkit allows the users to navigate through the different guidelines and find  all of the project results, including a best practice e-book manual, databases, tools, methodologies and templates. Additionally, from the RESCCUE Toolkit the user can access the RESCCUE maps on the CLARITY portal and interact with them. Finally, general information on the three case studies can be found as well as extra materials, such as scientific publications, maps and deliverables of the RESCCUE project.