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Increased Urban Resilience to Climate Change—Key Outputs from the RESCCUE Project

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  • Marc Velasco

    (Aquatec, SUEZ Advanced Solutions, Urban Drainage and Resilience Direction, 08038 Barcelona, Spain)

  • Beniamino Russo

    (Aquatec, SUEZ Advanced Solutions, Urban Drainage and Resilience Direction, 08038 Barcelona, Spain
    Group de Ingeniería Hidráulica y Ambiental (GIHA) (Group of Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering), Escuela Universitaria Politécnica de La Almunia, Universidad de Zaragoza, 50100 La Almunia de Doña Godina, Spain)

  • Robert Monjo

    (FIC—Climate Research Foundation, 28013 Madrid, Spain)

  • César Paradinas

    (FIC—Climate Research Foundation, 28013 Madrid, Spain)

  • Slobodan Djordjević

    (Centre for Water Systems, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QF, UK)

  • Barry Evans

    (Centre for Water Systems, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QF, UK)

  • Eduardo Martínez-Gomariz

    (Cetaqua—Water Technology Centre, Cornellà de Llobregat, 08940 Barcelona, Spain)

  • Maria Guerrero-Hidalga

    (Cetaqua—Water Technology Centre, Cornellà de Llobregat, 08940 Barcelona, Spain)

  • Maria Adriana Cardoso

    (LNEC—National Laboratory of Civil Engineering, 1700-066 Lisbon, Portugal)

  • Rita Salgado Brito

    (LNEC—National Laboratory of Civil Engineering, 1700-066 Lisbon, Portugal)

  • David Pacheco

    (Cetaqua—Water Technology Centre, Cornellà de Llobregat, 08940 Barcelona, Spain)

Abstract

RESCCUE is an H2020 research project that aims to help cities around the world to become more resilient to physical, social, and economic challenges, using the water sector as the central point of the approach. Since 2016, RESCCUE has been developing methodologies and tools to support cities increase their resilience. The three RESCCUE cities, Barcelona, Bristol, and Lisbon, have become a testing platform for the cutting-edge technologies developed in RESCCUE but these are also ready to be deployed to different types of cities, with different climate change pressures. This paper presents some of the main outputs generated by RESCCUE. From climate change scenarios to dissemination tools, and from sectorial models to Resilience Action Plans (RAPs), the outputs that have been produced are very diverse, but special focus is put on the urban water cycle and urban floods. All the project results have a common goal: to increase the resilience of cities from around the world, by offering the methodologies and tools so anyone can take advantage of using them and replicate the RESCCUE results.

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  • Marc Velasco & Beniamino Russo & Robert Monjo & César Paradinas & Slobodan Djordjević & Barry Evans & Eduardo Martínez-Gomariz & Maria Guerrero-Hidalga & Maria Adriana Cardoso & Rita Salgado Brito & D, 2020. "Increased Urban Resilience to Climate Change—Key Outputs from the RESCCUE Project," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(23), pages 1-25, November.
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