RESIN Resources
RESIN City Assessment Reports
These reports provide an assessment of each project city relevant to the city's adaptation strategy development.
RESIN City Assessment Report (1)
Bilbao
RESIN City Assessment Report (2)
Bratislava
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RESIN City Assessment Report (3)
Greater Manchester
RESIN City Assessment Report (4)
Paris
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Date
29/02/2016
Deliverable
D4.1
Authors
Alice Reil | ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability
Matt Ellis | Association of Greater Manchester Authorities
Jeremy Carter and Angela Connelly | University of Manchester
Maria Kozova and Eva Pauditsova | Comenius University in Bratislava
Zuzana Hudekova | City Office of Bratislava, Slovakia
Co-Authors
Estibaliz Sanz Gogeaskoetxea, Susana Ruiz and Nerea Tirado | City of Bilbao
Marta Olazabal | Basque Centre of Climate Change – BC3
Maddalen Mendizabal and Gemma Garcia | Tecnalia
Marie Bocquentin, Hypatia Nassopoulos, Jean-Marie Cariolet, Marc Vuillet, Morgane Colombert, Youssef Diab, Eric Defretin, Yann Françoise and Marie Gantois | EIVP
Sébastien Maire | General Secretariat of the City of Paris
Reviewers
Eric Luiijf and Martijn Neef | TNO
Alice Reil and Clara Grimes | ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability
Estibaliz Sanz Gogeaskoetxea and Susana Ruiz | City of Bilbao
Marta Olazabal | Basque Centre of Climate Change – BC3
Maddalen Mendizabal and Gemma Garcia | Tecnalia
Matt Ellis | Association of Greater Manchester Authorities
Jeremy Carter and Angela Connelly | University of Manchester
Maria Kozova and Eva Pauditsova | Comenius University in Bratislava
Zuzana Hudekova | City Office of Bratislava, Slovakia
Hypatia Nassopoulos | EIVP
AIM OF THE REPORT
This report, which gathers the cities assessment reports of all four RESIN cities of Bilbao, Bratislava, Greater Manchester and Paris, will allow the RESIN cities and project partners to gain an overview over which adaptation and critical infrastructure protection (CIP) strategies, plans and measures are already in place or planned. It will also enable a better understanding of the options and decision-support tools and products that may best be suited for each of the specific local contexts of these four European cities and thus tested in the course of the project. It will also enable the local governments, the stakeholders in the cities as well as the RESIN partners to better understand each city’s needs in the adaptation and critical infrastructure protection process.
In this report, both general and detailed features of each of these RESIN cities are presented to showcase the contexts in which local governments can and do act in light of current and future climate change impacts. Readers gain insights into the demographic development of the cities, their economic state, housing situation and critical infrastructure characteristics (e.g., water supply, waste disposal, electricity). The information that is currently available – and necessary to understand and deal with the risks that cities may be facing – is also listed. Being aware of this, readers are introduced to each of the cities’ plans and targets, which they have developed to adapt to climate change and protect their critical infrastructures. The role of different stakeholders is also explicated to show which are currently involved and can push these issues forward. Each city’s political commitment, their legal and financial framework, as well as their planning activities are explained in detail thereafter. Readers are then presented with the actual measures each city as well as other stakeholders are already implementing. To conclude, cities’ challenges, opportunities and achievements when it comes to adapting to climate change and protecting their critical infrastructures are highlighted. Each city’s needs to keep on adapting to climate change and safeguarding their critical infrastructures are summarised at the end.
Readers thus gain a comprehensive understanding where each city started, what they are currently doing and where they are planning to head towards in future in terms of adapting to climate change and protecting their critical infrastructure.
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