ADAPT

Under the coordination of ANCI Toscana, CIMA Research Foundation partners in the ADAPT project designed within the objectives of Europe 2020, COP 21, CSF 14-20 of the Cohesion Policy and Life 14-20, as well as the European Union Environmental and Climatic Legislation. The goal is to improve the capacity of public institutions to jointly prevent and manage specific risks in urban areas as a result of climate change; within ADAPT a focus will be given to the risk of flooding in the coastal areas between Italy and France.

The project targets medium-large municipalities in order to define medium and long term strategies on territorial and emergency planning topics, relating it to the adaptation to climate change by humans and specifically to the high hydrogeological risk in the region. The project will also implement communication and training activities aimed at engaging the population in participatory processes.

ADAPT expects to put in place strategies that will make it possible to deal with climate change in a proactive way, for example by the design and construction of flood defence works and other localized interventions, such as the restoration of past waterproofed areas no longer able to adequately respond to a flood.

CIMA Research Foundation will define a model that is able to understand how planned interventions within the project are in line with climate change policies and whether they are consistent with other territorial policies. It will also be important to provide indicators at the municipal level to understand, time to time, whether the intervention is well planned. For this purpose, researchers will implement its RASOR tool in a case study with appropriate hydrogeological risk resilience indicators to assess whether and how the construction can withstand the risk of flooding within a context of climate change.