Abstract
Developing cities includes the challenge of planning and designing a built environment resilient to hazards. However, Chilean coastal cities have been developed prioritizing changes in the urban form that promote real estate and tourism development, neglecting a resilient planning to tsunamis, i.e., planning to prepare, cope and adapt to hazards. To address this problem, MoDeRa-Ts evolved as an interactive digital platform aimed at promoting the integration of social, psychological, ecological, economic and institutional demands in the urban environment. Based on cluster analysis of 53 coastal cities, we selected 10 that vary in size and political-administrative-hierarchy to develop a resilience index by using 59 urban resilience indicators found in a systematic literature review. Data sources include open access databases, household surveys (N=2000) and 10 focus groups with municipality professionals. Indicators’ weight varies with respect to communities’ socio-economic needs (N=29 focus groups), and tsunami maps varies with respect to the local geographies. MoDeRa-Ts integrates this information in a ‘resilience simulator’ and an ‘adaptive resources visualizer map’. Municipality professionals evaluated MoDeRa-Ts as very good for usability and utility (>80% EFLA survey), while content analysis of the reports of MoDeRa-Ts suggest the integration of various resilience dimensions in urban planning and design, increasing the resilience index by 1 point in some cases. Indeed, municipalities propose changes that foster resilience by improving water management, the distribution and type of infrastructure, accessibility, and communication among stakeholders. MoDeRa-Ts is discussed as a digital tool to complement coastal municipalities’ decision-making process for building resilient urban environments (ANID-Fondecyt-1210540).
Presenters
Paula VillagraAssociate Professor, Instituto de Ciencias Ambientales y Evolutivas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Austral de Chile, Los Ríos, Chile Oneska Peña Y Lillo
Research Assistant, Landscape and Urban Resilience Laboratory, Austral University of Chile, Chile
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Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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KEYWORDS
Urban resilience, Urban planning, Digital Platform, Community participation
