The measures available in this web platform are a compilation of the state of the art in Climate Change Adaptation. They provide information about all potential solutions to reduce the impacts, damage and vulnerability of any territory. The measures have been obtained from different EU-funded scientific research projects. They are classified to facilitate the selection, using the search engine and the filters available.
This is a live tool, and it welcomes new measures as the Climate Adaptation research and practice evolves. If you register, you can enter new measures, and use all of them to create a tailored strategy for the municipality, district or region of interest. Also they can be included in the prioritization tool to compare the impact of the measures, which supports Climate Action decision-making.
An urban forest is a forest or a collection of trees that grow within a city, town or a suburb. In a wider sense it may include any kind of woody plant vegetation growing in and around human settlements. Cities can use parks to reduce public costs for stormwater management, flood control, transportation, and other forms of built infrastructure.
An artificial island is a man-made island, which can be integrated with flood protection. The island can be created by land reclamation, expanding existing islets, construction on existing reefs, or merging several natural islets into a bigger island. Artificial islands may vary in scale from small islets for a single structure, to islands that support entire communities and cities.
Impact addresed: Flood water infiltration into pipelines increases drinking water quality risk
Build recharging pools at high points in the city and generate a flow retention and lamination effect, and install rainwater capture systems so it can be reused. Evaluate their exploitation cost
Increase the height of existig defences or build new walls in places to future design flood levels inclusive of climate change predictions.
Impact addresed: Loss of supply or intermittent supplies increases risk of external contaminants entering the pipelines, increasing drinking water quality risk
The water square combines water storage with the improvement of the quality of urban public space. It makes money invested in water storage facilities visible and enjoyable. When heavy rains occur, rainwater that is collected from the neighbourhood flows visibly and audibly into the water square. Short cloudbursts will only fill parts of the square. When the rain continues, more and more parts of the water square will gradually be filled with water. The rainwater will be held in the square until the water system in the city has enough capacity again. Then the water can run off to the nearest open water.
Bypass is a channel which branches off from the main river to divert the flow to another channel.
Shading systems are integral part of physical configuration of many equipped public spaces. They can be installed as fixed or removable elements, designed for protect the underlying space from solar radiation and, if realized as waterproof canopies, from rain. The shadow quality, in terms of quantity of radiation transmitted is determined by the covering typology (e.g. continuous or discontinuos surface) and material. The upper surface should be designed with light color finishings, in order to reach adequate albedo values. The most used material include wood (with waterproof treatment), metals (steel or aluminium), glass (with optional selective treatment) and fabrics (acrylic and high resistance polyester) to meet not only structural but also aesthetic needs. In any case, the materials should preferably meet the requirements of lightness and flexibility. If not properly designed, they can however contribute to the trapping of heat and the overheating of the underlying area.
Characterise the various urban fabrics according to the risks that affect them and establish corelationships between them and key existing planning instruments to enable corrective measures to be incorporated when they are revised
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Identify existing and potential climate shelter spaces: public and private facilities and public spaces (e.g. parks and gardens) which could provide conditions for thermal comfort in extreme episodes and establish the services linked to the heat wave action protocols that these spaces need to offer, aside from quantifying the extra resources required (parks open 24 hours, use of “greened” school playgrounds, block interiors, etc.). Map the degree of cover to ensure territorial fairness and take into account the areas identified as the most vulnerable to heat
Coastal marshes occur along marine, estuarine, and freshwater coastlines and may be influenced by tidal or wave action or by freshwater from runoff, rivers, or ground water.
Consolidation of the control programmes for arboviruses and other diseases
Human-made by using human skill and technology to construct wetlands to reduce flood risk and treat wastewater.
Anti-flood or retention tanks are constructed strcutures conceived to temporarily storage pluvial flows in order to attenuate the affluent flows to the downstream network, reducing the peak flow. Usually, having volumes of thousand cubic meters, these infrastructures are built underground and ensure self-cleaning conditions.
