The Urban Geo-climate Footprint approach: enhancing urban resilience through improved geological conceptualisation

Lentini, Azzura; Galve, Jorge Pedro; Benjumea, Beatriz; Bricker, Stephanie; Devleeschouwer, Xavier; Guarino, Paolo Maria; Kearsey, Timothy; Leoni, Gabriele; Puzzilli, Luca Maria; Romeo, Saverio; Venvik, Guri; La Vigna, Francesco. 2024 The Urban Geo-climate Footprint approach: enhancing urban resilience through improved geological conceptualisation. Cities, 155, 105287. 10.1016/j.cities.2024.105287

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Abstract/Summary

Urban resilience is critical to allow cities to withstand the challenges of the 21st Century. One factor that is often overlooked in such assessments is the role of the subsurface. A novel methodology called the Urban Geo-climate Footprint (UGF) has been developed to classify cities quickly and comprehensively from geological and climatic perspectives. The method operates on the fundamental assumption that cities with similar geological-geographical settings will face similar challenges, due to both common geological issues and associated climate impacts. The UGF approach has been applied to 41 European cities in collaboration with 17 Geological Surveys of Europe, the results of the UGF analysis are presented along with a regional classification of the geological resilience indicators. The UGF tool provides a semi-quantitative representation of the pressures driven by geological and climatic complexity for the cities presented, providing for a first time such classification of the urban environment. The advantage of this methodology lies in increasing awareness among non-experts and decision-makers of the interplay between geological settings, climate change pressures, and anthropogenic activities. Furthermore, it facilitates the exchange best practices among city planners to increase resilience, supporting knowledge based decision making to promote actions and policies, that enhance geoscience-informed climate justice.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	10.1016/j.cities.2024.105287
Additional Keywords:	Urban Geoscience; Resilience
Date made live:	18 Sep 2024 09:20 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/538028

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