As a follow-up to the 2010 ETC/ACC scoping study on vulnerabilities to climate change hazards in urban regions and the 2012 EEA report on urban adaptation to climate change, a collaborative project between the ETC Climate Change... more
As a follow-up to the 2010 ETC/ACC scoping study on vulnerabilities to climate change hazards in urban regions and the 2012 EEA report on urban adaptation to climate change, a collaborative project between the ETC Climate Change Adaptation and ETC Spatial Information and Analysis was started in 2012 to further develop and implement a system of urban vulnerability indicators. This Technical Paper reports on this collaboration. The aim of the paper is to propose a system of urban vulnerability indicators, which allows assessing where European cities stand in terms of vulnerability and adaptation, and where certain problems cluster. The proposed indicator set can serve different stakeholders that are relevant in a multi-level approach towards urban adaptation. This includes the European and national level (getting an overview of the situation and the trends regarding urban vulnerability and adaptation in Europe, identifying hotspots and problem clusters to develop programmes of targete...