ICUC12-497, updated on 21 May 2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/icuc12-497
12th International Conference on Urban Climate
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Adaptation measures to support decision-making in delivering a resilient built environment 
Carmela Apreda1, Guglielmo Ricciardi1, Alfredo Reder1, Paola Mercogliano1, Rania Christoforou2, Mina Moayyadi2, Marcel Schweiker2,3, Erika Palmieri4, Maria Gavrouzou5, Athanasios Sfetsos5, and Diamando Vlachogiannis5
Carmela Apreda et al.
  • 1Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Caserta, Italy
  • 2Healthy Living Spaces Lab, Institute for Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
  • 3Chair of Healthy Living Spaces, Faculty of Architecture, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
  • 4ICLEI European Secretariat GmbH, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
  • 5Environmental Research Laboratory EREL, NCSR Demokritos, 15310 Agia Paraskevi, Greece

As the built environment continues to face increasing climate challenges – threatening physical and natural assets as well as human health and well-being with significant hazards such as heatwaves, flooding, and drought – targeted adaptation measures are essential to reduce climate impacts, safeguard built assets, and enhance the resilience of buildings, infrastructure, and communities. However, the lack of a systematic collection of adaptation measures and criteria for evaluating their resilience underscores the need for a comprehensive catalogue to support planning and design processes.


The MULTICLIMACT (MULTI-faceted CLIMate adaptation ACTions) Horizon Europe project addresses this gap by developing a framework and tool to support public stakeholders and citizens in evaluating the resilience of the built environment and its people at multiple scales (territorial, urban, and building) against natural and climate hazards. The study, conducted within MULTICLIMACT project, introduces a novel catalogue of adaptation measures designed to guide policy-makers and public administrations to the actions they can take to improve the resilience of the built environment. 


Drawing from the National Adaptation Plans of the four demo sites countries (Italy, Latvia, Netherlands, and Spain), and complemented by additional EU guideline and database, the catalogue is based on the European Environmental Agency’s Key Type of Measures (KTMs) classification. It focuses on Physical and Technological options (KTM C), and Nature-Based Solutions and Ecosystem-based Approaches (KTM D), comprising 44 adaptation measures (27 for KTM C, 17 for KTM D). Each measure is outlined in a factsheet detailing its relevance to climate hazards, processes, functions, benefits, and scale of intervention, while also evaluating resilience contributions across six key dimensions covered by MULTICLIMACT: physical, human health, well-being and quality of life, technical, economic, environmental, and organizational.

How to cite: Apreda, C., Ricciardi, G., Reder, A., Mercogliano, P., Christoforou, R., Moayyadi, M., Schweiker, M., Palmieri, E., Gavrouzou, M., Sfetsos, A., and Vlachogiannis, D.: Adaptation measures to support decision-making in delivering a resilient built environment , 12th International Conference on Urban Climate, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 7–11 Jul 2025, ICUC12-497, https://doi.org/10.5194/icuc12-497, 2025.

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