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The temperature is rising, putting the world’s growing urban population at risk. Identifying hotspots and making use of all available data sources is key.
An EU-backed project turned to gamification to present its new tools that are designed to safeguard historic areas in Europe from climate change.
The EU-funded INTERACT project announces the publication of policy recommendations for the consideration of translation and interpreting.
Researchers have launched an online tool that can offer reliable forecasts for weather-dependent industries like renewable energy production, insurance, and farming.
Efforts to prevent urban flooding have frequently resulted in costly and complex systems based on rainfall forecasts that are often inaccurate. The EU-funded CENTAUR (Cost Effective Neural Technique for Alleviation of Urban Flood Risk) is an autonomous technology that uses piped networks to provide flood protection at a lower cost than Real-Time Control systems.
The Objective Ranking Tool (ORT) aims to support decision makers in chosing the right options when identifying a region's infrastructure vulnerabilities to extreme weather and deciding how to make society more resilient. The tool combines a mathematical model on so-called similarity judgment, analytical hierarchy processing, and expert discussions and judgements.
While the probabilities of most natural hazards do not change much over time, the sensitivity of the built environment and the vulnerability of the embedded socio-economic fabric have increased rapidly. This science position paper, to be released 14 April, analyses the potential effects of low-probability high-impact events, which the authors argue may bring our already stressed global society beyond the limits of sustainability...
The SUDPLAN, sustainable urban development planner for climate change adaptation, project has developed a web-based planning, prediction and training tool, which can be used to support decisions in long-term urban planning in European cities...
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