Advancing Resilience of Historic Areas against Climate-related and other Hazards (ARCH)
Description:
The ARCH project aims to enhance the resilience of areas of cultural and historic value against climatic hazards and other natural hazards by providing better information to decision-makers. ARCH combines disaster risk management, climate change adaptation, and heritage management in an overall disaster risk management process. This is supported by a suite of tools: information management systems provide easy access to geo-referenced information; a decision support system supports impact and consequence analyses under different scenarios; an inventory of resilience measures allows identification of resilience enhancing measures; and a strategic resilience self-assessment allows identifying weak spots in resilience strategies and formulating action plans.
ARCH’s solutions are intended to be used by actors at city and historic area level responsible for heritage management, resilience, climate change adaptation, sustainability, and disaster risk management. To ensure direct applicability of all solutions, ARCH's team includes four European municipalities: Bratislava, Camerino, Hamburg, and Valencia. All solutions are developed together with these municipalities in a co-creation approach. In addition, a Mutual Learning Framework widens the practitioner network to 12 additional European municipalities, ensuring widespread replicability of the project results.
ECCA 2021 - Climate Adaptation solutions video - ARCH
Project information
Lead
Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems IAIS, Germany
Partners
ICLEI European Secretariat, Germany
Deutsches Institut für Normung e.V., Germany
Fundacion Tecnalia Research & Innovation, Spain
Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, Italy
Universita Degli Studi Di Camerino, Italy
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy
SOGESCA s.r.l., Italy
Research for Science, Art and Technology (RFSAT) Limited, Ireland
Mestsky Ustav Ochrany Pamiatok, Slovak Republic
Univerzita Komenskeho V Bratislave, Slovak Republic
City of Bratislava, Slovak Republic
Fundación de la Comunitat Valenciana para la Promoción Estratégica, el Desarrollo y la Innovación Urbana
Comune di Camerino, Italy
Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, Germany
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, South Korea
Source of funding
RIA - Research and Innovation action
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Published in Climate-ADAPT Apr 16 2021 - Last Modified in Climate-ADAPT Dec 12 2023