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Open-source geospatial frameworks for city-level climate risk assessment and public–private adaptation cost-benefit analysis — reproducible and city-agnostic.
What URBADAPT does¶
URBADAPT is a modular architecture for assessing urban climate risk and appraising adaptation investment. Each hazard-specific implementation shares the same structure — hazard, exposure, vulnerability, impact functions, adaptation pathways, cost-benefit analysis — so that methods and results stay comparable across hazards and across cities.
Two commitments shape the design:
- City-agnostic by construction. Everything city-specific — climate inputs, demographics, cost parameters, policy assumptions — lives in a YAML configuration file and a data manifest. The analytical code runs unchanged everywhere, so adding a city means adding a config, not editing the model.
- Adaptation is appraised, not assumed. Adaptation options are represented through their physical mechanisms and carried through a discounted cost-benefit analysis with externalities, co-benefits, and distributional outcomes — rather than applied as headline percentage-reduction factors.
Implementations¶
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URBADAPT-HEAT
v1.0 — available. Urban heat risk and adaptation appraisal at ~100 m resolution for European functional urban areas. Quantifies heat-attributable mortality to 2050 and evaluates air conditioning, urban street trees, and early warning systems.
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URBADAPT-FLOOD
In development. The flood-hazard implementation of the same architecture, not yet publicly released. This page will link to its documentation when it is.
Development¶
URBADAPT is developed in the ECIP Division (Economic analysis of Climate Impacts and Policy) of the CMCC Foundation, part of the European Institute on Economics and the Environment.
See Team for the people behind the framework and how to reach them.
Licence¶
URBADAPT-HEAT is released under CC0 1.0 — a public domain dedication. Input datasets carry their own licences; consult each provider before redistribution.
About this website¶
Documentation pages are the URBADAPT-HEAT GitHub wiki, synced into this site automatically on every build — the wiki remains the single source of truth, so documentation edits belong there, not in the website repository. The site is built with MkDocs Material from URBADAPT/URBADAPT.github.io.