Author(s): Barry Hankin; Andy Evans; Jenny Roberts; Mark Lawless; Paul Smith; Nicola Wood; Steve Maslen
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Keywords: Adaptation; Resilience; Pathway; Integrated; Planning
Abstract: Adaptation to climate change is imperative given failing global carbon policies, yet there are few hydroinformatics-based tools to help visualise resilience for a given place, and for planning what this might look like across community and environment long-term. We present Resilience Studio, a globally scalable web platform for interacting with a large spatio-temporal risk and resilience library to plan mixed mitigation long-term adaptation strategies, with a focus on flooding. We demonstrate creation of a large risk-library combining a suite of present-day and future flood hazard data based on a suite of global flood maps with open-population data and local property re-build and vulnerability information. This is combined with opportunity mapping of future mitigations and conceptualisation of impact on risk-reduction to complete the large risk library. A range of flood-mitigations are considered including Early Warning Systems, Nature-based Solutions, Property Flood Resilience and Defences. Representing the at-a-distance flood risk benefits of NbS can require a greater burden of modelling-proof than other mitigations, so we present two alternative approaches with different levels of complexity. Resilience Studio is demonstrated for implementations in the UK and Brazil, comparing AI and human trade-off and optimisation for resilience pathways to provide insight for future work.
Year: 2026