Cremen, Gemma;
Galasso, Carmine;
McCloskey, John;
Barcena, Alejandro;
Creed, Maggie;
Filippi, Maria Evangelina;
Gentile, Roberto;
... Trogrlic, Robert Sakic; + view all
(2023)
A state-of-the-art decision-support environment for risk-sensitive and pro-poor urban planning and design in Tomorrow's cities.
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
, 85
, Article 103400. 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.103400.
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Abstract
In this Special Issue introductory paper, we present the Tomorrow's Cities Decision Support Environment (TCDSE). As the negative impacts of natural hazards continue to escalate around the world due to increasing populations, climate change, and rapid urbanisation (among other factors and processes), there is an urgent requirement to develop structured and operational approaches towards multi-hazard risk-informed decision making on urban planning and design. This is a particularly pressing issue for low-to-middle income countries, which are set to be impacted ever more disproportionately during future natural-hazard events if the “business as usual” urban-development approach continues unabated. Urban poor residents of these countries will significantly suffer under risk-insensitive development trajectories. The proposed TCDSE addresses this crucial challenge. It facilitates a participatory, people-centred approach to risk-informed decision making, using state-of-the-art procedures for physics-based hazard and engineering impact modelling, integrating physical and social vulnerability in a unified framework, and expressing the consequences of future disasters across an array of stakeholder-weighted impact metrics that facilitate democratisation of the risk concept. The purpose of this introductory paper is to provide a detailed description of each component of the TCDSE, characterising related data inflows and outflows between modules. We conclude with a short operational end-to-end demonstration of the TCDSE, using the Tomorrowville virtual urban testbed. Individual components of the TCDSE are further dealt with in detail within subsequent papers of this Special Issue.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | A state-of-the-art decision-support environment for risk-sensitive and pro-poor urban planning and design in Tomorrow's cities |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.103400 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.103400 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2022 The Authors. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | Disaster risk, Risk-informed decision making, Urban planning, People-centred, Tomorrow's cities |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Civil, Environ and Geomatic Eng |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10162597 |
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