this is an ongoing project funded as part of the grantham centre for sustainable futures. we are currently looking at synthesized evidence from the most extreme estimates of climate change effects such as extreme temperatures, precipitation, flooding, drought, wildfire, storms and sea-level rise from ecc scenarios, assessing the potential worst-case impacts on urban systems with a focus on heterogeneous regional impacts and the potential need for significant adaptation efforts. if you have been page surfing here, you notice that part of this project has been presented at the EGU23 by tom wood
this space will be updated as and when i have more to show about what we are currently doing.
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Extreme Climate Change Impacts on Urban Infrastructure and Support Systems
In EGU General Assembly 2023, Apr 2023
In this study we present synthesised evidence from the most extreme estimates of climate change effects such as extreme temperatures, precipitation, flooding, drought, wildfire, storms and sea-level rise from ECC scenarios, assessing the potential worst-case impacts on urban systems with a focus on heterogeneous regional impacts and the potential need for significant pre-emptive adaptation efforts. Global cities are ranked according to their potential vulnerability to ECC impacts with the aim of identifying cities where critical infrastructure is at risk of failure and what ECC effects they are likely to experience. We highlight gaps in current understanding and the need to focus research in this area while outlining a research agenda to explore ECC effects on urban infrastructure, including case studies of infrastructure systems in cities identified as vulnerable, with the aim of generating evidence for use in policy development.
