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Urban Regions: Vulnerabilities, Vulnerability Assessments by Indicators and Adaptation Options for Climate Change Impacts
ETC/ACC Technical Paper 2010/12

Released: 2011/02/15: See the report

with Annex with list of projects, cities and options

Abstract:
This study assesses the feasibility of developing climate change related vulnerability indicators for urban areas to support future EU spatial development policy by reviewing available literature and research activities. It is to assess and test the potential for developing policy relevant and scientifically‐sound vulnerability indicators for EEA stakeholders to indicate which cities and urban regions might be harmed by climate related threats.

Currently, a structured information dataset to understand the distribution of vulnerability to climate change impacts across the EU is lacking. This study provides added value in terms of information overview and to collect and analyse the existing information, assessment approaches and future activities, data needs and availability for and testing of existing vulnerability indicators and adaptation options and activities, make recommendations on indicator developments and on a report in 2011 on such indicators and adaption options.

Prepared by: Inke Schauser¹, Sonja Otto¹, Stefan Schneiderbauer², Alex Harvey³, Nikki Hodgson³, Holger Robrecht⁴, Daniel Morchain⁴, Joost-Jan Schrander⁵, Maria Khovanskaia⁶, Gamze Celikyilmaz-Aydemir⁶, Andrea Prutsch⁷, Sabine McCallum⁷

^{1 UBA-D, Federal Environment Agency Germany(*); 2 EURAC, European Academy Bozen; 3 AEA, AEA-Technology(*); 4 ICLEI, Local Governments for Sustainability; 5 PBL, Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency(*); 6 REC, Regional Environmental Centre Hungary(*); 7 UBA-V, Federal Environmental Agency Austria(*)
(*) ETC/ACC Consortium partner institute}

Published by: ETC/ACC, February 2011, 208 pp.