Urban risk & planning

Seven European cities and partners have worked intensively together for the past three and a half years in the EU project REACHOUT. The goal was to develop climate services that truly connect to real-world practice in cities.

This study presents the first observational assessment (1951–2022) of summertime hot–wet compound events across global coastal megacities.

This document presents a toolkit, or a practical step-by-step guide, to applying the Strengthening and Enhancing Contextual Urban Resilience (SECURe) framework.

This report presents the findings of the second deep dive assessment of the Knowledge Centre on Earth Observation (KCEO), focusing on how Earth Observation (EO) products and services can support EU policies on urban climate adaptation.

This article presents "Sismopoli", a board game focused on seismic risk reduction from an urban perspective, as a tool to make complex issues more manageable and understandable.

This study explores how smaller cities in California plan for extreme heat, revealing gaps in planning capacity and preparedness.

This global review examines methods for siting green infrastructure to mitigate heatwaves and floods in cities. It finds heat and stormwater planning remain siloed, with a call for integrated, multifunctional urban resilience strategies.

This report focuses on the exploration of existing low-emission cooling solutions to extreme heat through the review of international and UK evidence, with a particular focus on London in addition to 14 case studies from around the world.