ReMED’s first deliverable mapped the existing knowledge, indicators and tools on urban resilience. They refer to the ability of an urban system to anticipate, prepare for, and respond to climate-related disruptions, while maintaining essential functions and recovering swiftly.
A climate risk is not just a function of the physical hazard itself but also depends on how much and how vulnerable and exposed the systems are.
Accordingly, a climate risk increases when hazards are more severe, exposure is high and vulnerability is significant.
Various Assessment Methods, Tools and Indicators address building and urban resilience to climate change.
As a starting point, the ReMED Assessment system exploits the available information and main results from 15 national and European methodologies and assessment systems dealing with risk and vulnerability to climate change at building and urban scale.
Specific climate risks result from a combination of local conditions, including climate hazards, exposures and vulnerabilities.
- Hazard – climate-related events or trends, such as extreme weather (e.g., heatwaves, floods, storms) or long-term processes (e.g., sea-level
rise, desertification), that can lead to adverse impacts on human or ecological systems; - Exposure – presence of people, ecosystems, infrastructure, or assets in areas that could be negatively affected by climatic hazards;
- Vulnerability – the susceptibility of the exposed systems to harm, considering physical, social, economic, and environmental factors that reduce or amplify the impact of climatic hazards.
