Tapping into history
Located in a low-lying delta region, the Netherlands is vulnerable to climate change risks. Amsterdam and Rotterdam routinely rank among the world’s cities most vulnerable to flooding, putting billions of dollars of real estate at risk. At the same time, they face high demand for new real estate and infrastructure. However, the relationship between climate risks in built structures and the systems that govern responses to these risks is not well understood.
Fortunately, the Netherlands has centuries of expertise related to water management, urban planning, and infrastructure design, and it has a reputation for being open to collaboration. The Red&Blue consortium builds on these strengths. It will bring together researchers and societal partners to develop ways to assess and manage existing and new real estate and infrastructure against climate change risks, using case studies in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and Dordrecht.
“Amsterdam has the opportunity to navigate climate uncertainty if private parties were actively involved in the city development and adaptation plans. Red&Blue provides this opportunity.”
Maged Elsamny
Living Lab Coordinator Red&Blue
Strength through collaboration
The project has set up working groups on the following topics: climate risk assessment; asset value and risk assessment; real estate climate, finance and asset monitoring and management; planning, law and administration; and climate adaption engineering solutions.
Researchers and societal partners are pooling their knowledge and skills to produce frameworks, mappings, and toolkits for each topic area. The case studies in Amsterdam will focus on several aspects of asset management, public-private financial interactions in city developments, and systems, risk analysis and technical solutions in flood-prone Watergraafsmeer, Havenstad, and Schinkelkwartier.
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