Abstract

Smart Urban Adapt - Helping cities transition to alow-carbon future
Track: Climate Change
Authors: Jan Halatsch

This presentation shows recent results of the European Climate-KIC project Smart Urban Adapt: The city of tomorrow must use fewer resources and provide better quality of life. SMART URBAN ADAPT helps European cities with next-generation decision tools to design development paths for the 1-ton-CO2-society. Current climate-mitigation scenarios for sustainable urban environments are mainly defined by fixed key performance indicators. Associated action plans are likely to fail due to interactions of systems, legal regulations and economic mechanisms in the real world environment. This calls for a more integrated surveying of climate critical urban systems and adjustable adaptation mechanisms to create feasible urban development paths for climate-change mitigation. Hence, this project aims to develop a scenario-based evaluation platform for the generation of accredited urban development paths and resilience benchmarks for municipalities. Previously separated urban subsystem models will be integrated into large GIS data warehouses and combined emerging urban climate data sensing techniques.