The proposed solution is a toolkit, based on a suitable hard- and software infrastructure as well as on preliminary and follow-up empirical analyses, which supports a ‘behavioral resilience plan’ for potentially affected citizens under different levels of hazardous events. This would involve ranking the flooding impact as minor, moderate, major, or catastrophic, ensuring that the action plan is tailored to the severity of each event.
This toolkit comprises the following non-technical elements:
- Information and awareness raising campaign for citizens about the new resilience system (including non-written materials like e.g. short videos);
- coordinated practices for citizens, organised by city government staff and additional helpers;
- detailed guidelines for setting up resilience system control headquarters together with a resilience information network for citizens, which are organised by the city government, but also include additional staff from police, rescue services, hospitals etc.
Furthermore, the following technical components are necessary:
- The approach of this project is to gather from flood-related decentralized systems observational data and develop tools to generate hazardous scenarios. These scenarios could then be followed by assigning different hazard levels based on severity. It would serve as a benchmark for creating a concrete action plan for citizens.
- Hard- and software for the resilience control headquarters.
- Technical devices for resilience information network for neighborhoods and citizens.
- Apps for mobile phones and computers to get access to the resilience information network.
