RESIN – Climate Resilient Cities and Infrastructures
Background and Goals
RESIN is an interdisciplinary, practice-based research project investigating climate resilience in European cities. Through co-creation and knowledge brokerage between cities and researchers, the project is working on developing practical and applicable tools to support cities in designing and implementing climate adaptation strategies for their local contexts. The project aims to compare and evaluate the methods that can be used to plan for climate adaptation in order to move towards formal standardisation of adaptation strategies.
The project is moving past local, city-specific approaches to climate change adaptation and towards developing central frameworks for cities to learn from other cities’ experience when developing adaptation strategies for their own local contexts. The project is working with European standardisation organisations with a view to contributing to the formal standardisation of adaptation tools and approaches. This will allow cities to share and compare knowledge and capabilities and for cities to support one another in developing their capacity for resilience.
Content time
toResearch area/region
Country
- Europe
Spatial resolution
Four case cities: Paris, Manchester, Bratislava, Bilbao
Steps in the process of adaptation to climate change
Step 3: Develop and compare measures
Measures and/or strategies
The RESIN project is investigating climate change adaptation practices in European cities and assessing impact and vulnerability in order to develop standardized methodologies and decision support tools that cities can use to develop local adaptation strategies. The project is building on previous research by combining existing approaches to climate change adaptation and disaster risk management to develop an innovative, holistic approach that takes into account all of the core elements of the urban system and the ways in which they are interrelated.
Step 5: Watch and evaluate adaptation (monitoring and evaluation)
Approach, objective and results of the monitoring and/or evaluation
The cooperation allows immediate testing and evaluation of the tools the partners develop, and subsequent progress is informed and guided by the effectiveness and outcomes of the pilot testing of the tools. The researchers use data provided by the core cities to analyze and characterize their current processes and policies related to climate adaptation.
Participants
Funding / Financing
European Union
Project management
Dutch Organisation for Applied Natural Scientific Research (TNO)
Cooperation/Partners
Fraunhofer IAIS
Tecnalia Research and Innovation Foundation
ICLEI European Secretariat GmbH
Standardisation Institute of the Netherlands (NEN)
Arcadis Nederland
ITTI Sp. Z.o.o., Poland
Siemens Austria
Siemens Germany
Uniresearch
University of Manchester
Comenius University of Bratislava
Basque Centre for Climate Change
School of Engineering of the City of Paris (EIVP)
Greater Manchester
City of Bratislava
City of Bilbao
