Urban Adaptation to Extreme Heat Events

Project description

Building cities’ resistance to extreme heat

Devastating extreme heat events (EHEs) have become a serious problem for dense areas of European cities. As the negative effects of EHE are expected to increase due to climate change, there is an urgent need for adaptive strategies. Unfortunately, Europe lacks common norms concerning monitoring and reporting of adaptive capacity for enhanced implementation of necessary measures. To overcome this challenge, the EU-funded U-ADAPT project proposes a new, dynamic measuring approach to determine and monitor the adaptation of EU urban areas to EHEs. The project will enable testing and implementation of the framework and its norms and strategies in the framework of disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation to protect citizens from the impact of extreme heat.

Fields of science

• natural sciences › earth and related environmental sciences › atmospheric sciences › climatology › climatic changes

Programme(s)

• H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Main Programme
• H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility

Topic(s)

• MSCA-IF-2020 - Individual Fellowships

Call for proposal

H2020-MSCA-IF-2020

See other projects for this call

Funding Scheme

MSCA-IF-EF-RI - RI – Reintegration panel

Coordinator

UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE

Net EU contribution

€ 160 932,48

Address

Carretera De Utrera Km 1
41013 Sevilla
Spain

Region

Andalucía › Sevilla

Activity type

Higher or Secondary Education Establishments

Links

Other funding

€ 0,00