Laurien, F.

McCallum, I.

Mechler, R.

Velev, S.

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

Resilience service technologies for identifying climate change adaptation gaps: The flood resilience dashboardFinn LaurienIan MccallumStefan VelevReinhard MechlerResilience service Resilience “[Climate] services, which provide timely, tailored information and knowledge to decision makers (generally in the form of tools, products, websites, or bulletins), are seen as an important part of improving our capacity to manage climate-related risk.” (Vaughan and Desai, 2014)Users (e.g. NGOs, stakeholders, policymakers)  User Platform (e.g. dashboards) Resilience Service Information SystemResearch, Modelling and PredictionObservation and MonitoringCapacity DevelopmentAdapted from WMO, 2011; See global climate service framework Knowledge or capacity needs?Standard risk maps mostly fail communicating needs for local action…Thinkhazard.orgMethod• Indicator-based resilience data (based on the FRMC)• Citizens science and crowdsourcing approaches• Spatio-temporal data about exposure & vulnerability• Exploring useful and reliable data and methods• Identify resilience, risk and vulnerability data across scale• Building on hazard and exposure data from models (Glofris) and emprical datasets (EM-DAT)Launching the flood resilience dashboard –a resilience service platformPreparation using spatio-temporal data technologies Based on data from FRMC & Tellman et al. 2021, Nature: Satellite imaging reveals increased proportion of population exposed to floodsPrecipitation seasonality & directly impacted people (corr=0.43 ,p=0.043Response during an event using real-time data technologies• Temperature; • rain; • wind;Assessing ex-post impacts using citizens science technologies – Picture Pile App • Building materials? Brick, tin, wood, tarps• Building height? Floors, 1,2,3,…• Building safety? – robustness?• Flood resilience infrastructure? Dams, walls, canals, bridges – probably harder to find.• Overall resilience? Low, med, high – could we train people to qualify resilience?Flood Resilience Dashboard Example of WASH measures in Nicaragua to communicate adaptation action to society and stakeholdersFurther applicationsC) Nepal: Expected in Sept 22• Continuity of IIASA-PA collaborations• Demand for regional resilience assessments; early warning systems; advocacy and evalutating intervention B) Bangladesh: Expected in Sept 22• Intensifying discourse on L&D • Demand for disaggregated data assessment; citizen mapping 

Resilience service technologies for identifying climate change adaptation gaps: The flood resilience dashboard

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Resilience service technologies for identifying climate change adaptation gaps: The flood resilience dashboard

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