Author: Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems (IAIS)
Year of publication: 2018
Available languages: English
Type of assessment: Vulnerability assessment
Details: Risk based vulnerability assessment
Format of assessment: Guideline
Details: Offers a method to conduct a risk-based process for assessing impacts and vulnerabilities of urban areas and their infrastructure
Estimated costs for conducting: No information
Estimated duration of assessment: Context dependent
To be carried out by whom: Multiple actors
Details: Supposed to be conducted by people employed in a cities planning committee but can be carried out by consultants too
Institutional scale of use: Local/community
Details: City level
Assesment to be used by which target audience: Local decision makers
Output: Report
Region of origin: Europe
Developed by which sector: Science
Applied in practice: No information
Geographic coverage in analysis: Worldwide
Potential geographic coverage: Any area or infrastructure; mainly cities or parts of cities
Sectors covered: Urban sector, Health sector, Water sector
Details: Method focuses on built-up environment / Cities but covers different sectors impacted (e.g. health, water)
Method used: Mixed method approach
Description of methodology: Impact chains, index development, scenario analysis, participative approaches. Systematically selecting hazards, drivers, and stressors → Developing Impact Chains → Identifying indicators and data acquisition → Normalisation, weighting, and aggregation of indicators → Aggregating vulnerability components to risk
Risk framework used: AR5
Risk components incorporated: All
Hazards and impacts considered in the assessment: All hazards
Source of required data: Primary (data has to be generated)
Details: The method offers guidance on where to look for data, what pitfalls exists, how to check data quality and manage data
Temporal scale: Forward looking
Participatory elements: Yes
Details: Stakeholder workshops
Consideration of interconnectedness and -dependencies of risks: Yes
Adressing uncertainty: Yes
Scope of assessment: Identification of risks, assessment of impacts
Economic/Non-Economic losses incorporated: Both
Applicability for entire risk spectrum (from extreme weather events to slow onset processes): Yes
Recommendations for Adaptation measures included in Climate Risk Assessment: No
Usefulness for political purposes: Targeted and local/regional decision makers, useful for local adaptation plans
Applied by whom: Fraunhofer IAIS
Open access: Yes