Improving Climate Resilience of Critical Assets: The ICARIA Project
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Published:2023-09-22
Issue:19
Volume:15
Page:14090
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ISSN:2071-1050
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Container-title:Sustainability
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Sustainability
Author:
Russo Beniamino12ORCID, de la Cruz Coronas Àlex2ORCID, Leone Mattia3ORCID, Evans Barry4, Brito Rita Salgado5ORCID, Havlik Denis6, Bügelmayer-Blaschek Marianne6, Pacheco David7, Sfetsos Athanasios8
Affiliation:
1. Flumen Research Institute, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya—BarcelonaTech (UPC), Campus Nord, 08034 Barcelona, Spain 2. Climate Change & Resilience Unit, AQUATEC (AGBAR Group), 08038 Barcelona, Spain 3. Department of Architecture, PLINIVS-LUPT Study Centre, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, 80138 Napoli, Italy 4. Centre for Water Systems, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QJ, UK 5. Laboratorio Nacional de Engenharia Civil, 1700 Lisboa, Portugal 6. Austrian Institute of Technology GMBH, 1210 Wien, Austria 7. CETAQUA Water Technology Center, 08940 Cornellà de Llobregat, Spain 8. National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, 15341 Agia Paraskevi, Greece
Abstract
The number of climate-related disasters has progressively increased in the last two decades and this trend will drastically exacerbate in the medium- and long-term horizons according to climate change projections. In this framework, through a multi-disciplinary team and a strong background acquired in recent projects, ICARIA aims to promote the use of asset-level modeling to achieve a better understanding of climate related tangible direct and indirect impacts on critical assets due to complex, cascading, and compound disasters. Furthermore, it takes into account the related risk reduction provided by suitable, sustainable, and cost-effective adaptation solutions. ICARIA focuses on both (i) critical assets and services that were not designed for potential climate change-related impacts that can increase the unplanned outages and failures, and (ii) on housing, natural areas, and population. Cutting edge methods regarding climate scenario building, asset-level-coupled models, and multi-risk assessment approaches will be implemented and replicated in three EU regions to understand how future climate scenarios might affect critical assets and to provide decision-making support tools to private and public risk owners to assess the costs and benefits of various adaptation solutions.
Funder
Horizon Europe Programme
Subject
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment,Geography, Planning and Development,Building and Construction
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