Multi-Risk Climate Mapping for the Adaptation of the Venice Metropolitan Area

Climate change risk reduction requires cities to undertake urgent decisions. One of the principal obstacles that hinders effective decision making is insufficient spatial knowledge frameworks. Cities climate adaptation planning must become strategic rethink and transform urban fabrics holistically. Contemporary should merge future threats with older unsolved criticalities, like social inequities, conflicts “drosscapes”. Retrofitting processes redefining objectives development innovative information This paper proposes a combination approaches overcome production limits support planning. The research was undertaken in collaboration Metropolitan City Venice Municipality Venice, required multi-risk atlas their efforts. developed tool Spatial Decision Support System (SDSS), which aids actions coordination strategies. model recognises assesses two impacts: Urban Heat Island Flooding, representing (CMVE) as case study complexity. composed from multiple assessment methodologies maps both vulnerability risk. links morphological functional conditions land use triggers impacts. takes exposure assets into account, using this parameter describe local economies services, map uneven distribution resulting therefore replicable scalable mapping able mediate between metropolitan level systems.