ICARIA aims to promote the use of asset-level modelling framework to better understand climate-related impacts and reduce the risk by providing sustainable and cost-effective adaptation solutions.
ICARIA researches three European case studies to understand climate impacts and develop adaptation solutions. These include two Mediterranean coastal areas – Barcelona Metropolitan Area and the South Aegean Archipelago – and Salzburg, Austria, all facing severe climate challenges. The project assesses solution replicability across these regions and five additional areas, ultimately providing regional-scale adaptation scenarios accounting for climate and socioeconomic factors.
The Trial assessment focuses on the best-known climate hazards of each case study and on the potentially affected assets for which there is more knowledge and data availability. The results from this stage could be used “as is” for operative decision-making.
The Mini-trials, a second cycle of implementation, focuses on other disasters and assets historically less studied, completing the available information. Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based techniques could be used for filling data gaps. This phase serves to validate the replicability of the tools implemented in the Trials in other regions and under data limitations.
In this platform you can find a number of adaptation measures that cover a wide range of variables to cover the Adaptation Strategies of any territory. Collected from several references, the state of the art in Climate Change Adaptation actions is available in the ICARIA Adaptation Platform.
The characterization of the measures allows to find the most effective measures for each resilience need. Not only effectiveness is considered, but also costs and co-benefits are relevant when selecting and prioritizing measures.
Adaptation measures are not usually applied individually but jointly, under a specific adaptation strategy to deal with a particular threat. In order to define a strategy, adaptation measures are selected from the database or new ones can be created. These measures are individually ranked under 3 different criteria in a preliminary assessment. Additionally, a detailed assessment can be carried out to prioritize adaptation scenarios according to the effectiveness of the joint effect of sets of measures (i.e. adaptation scenarios).
Define which are the climate threats most relevant to your area, then create one strategy for each, one at a time. An adaptation strategy is composed by a set of measures intended to solve a specific climate-related problem. Measures are compared in the preliminary assessment while adaptation scenarios are in the detailed assessment.
You can either choose measures from the list provided here in the platform or create new measures specific for your area case study. The new measures can be kept private or public them for other users to be able to use them. Basic economic and efficiency information is required to tailor the measures to each case study. In addition, co-benefits scoring can be added for further assessment.
Once the information about the measures is compiled, the first ranking is available. Weighting of the prioritization variables (e.g. cost-efficiency and co-benefits) can be modified to meet your criteria. Downloadable graphs will be available
If you have further information and details about the impacts of the selected measures in your area, it is possible to extend the assessment by defining further criteria to assess their suitability. For example, you can introduce avoided or expected annual damage, or number of citizens impacted as variables.
If you find it useful for your area case study, you can create adaptation scenarios by gathering sets of measures and compare them. stakeholders and experts usually find interesting to compare the impact of different combinations of measures, so they can better understand the potential results of different policies. The results of the prioritization will show, considering the new criteria defined by you. As in the preliminary assessment, weights of the variables can be modified, and graphs can be downloaded.
Prioritization results of the adaptation strategies will be shown and you will be able to choose the results’ order and download all the data. This will help decision-makers to take better informed decisions to improve the resilience of your citiy!
The Icaria partners can be your strategic team to help you make your area resilient to climate change:
