Accelerating Climate Change Adaptation in Cities with FAIR2Adapt: FAIRifying Hamburg’s Risk Map

Magagna, Barbara and Fouilloux, Anne and von Szombathely, Malte and Matauschek, Christine and Stocker, Markus (2025) Accelerating Climate Change Adaptation in Cities with FAIR2Adapt: FAIRifying Hamburg’s Risk Map. URBAN INNOVATION: TO BOLDLY GO WHERE NO CITIES HAVE GONE BEFORE. Medium sized cities and towns as a major arena of global urbanisation. Proceedings of REAL CORP 2025, 30th Intl. Conference on Urban Development, Regional Planning and Information Society. pp. 77-87. ISSN 2521-3938

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Abstract

As climate change intensifies, cities must develop adaptive strategies to mitigate risks and enhance resilience. The FAIR2Adapt project applies FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) principles to climate adaptation data, ensuring long-term usability and interoperability across urban planning tools. This paper presents our work on identifying requirements for the FAIRification of Hamburg’s Risk Map, a critical resource for urban climate adaptation. We outline the methodological framework used to enhance data findability, accessibility, and interoperability, integrating the Risk Map with broader urban data infrastructures. The approach involves a requirements elicitation process as a pre-phase of the FDO-driven FAIRification Framework we develop in the FAIR2Adapt project. Based on the description of the city of Hamburg case study, which is one of six in the FAIR2Adapt project, we identified user stories and extracted more specific requirements. To address these requirements customized FAIR Supporting Resources will be needed, such as a FAIR metadata schema for geospatial risk maps and simulation models, improving data sharing and reusability within ArcGIS-based risk assessment tools, and applying Scientific Knowledge Graphs (specifically, the Open Research Knowledge Graph) to ensure scientific transparency and reproducibility. Additionally, we will enhance urban climate modeling workflows making the developed procedures accessible via RO-Crates that allow to package the software together with structured documentation. By embedding these principles, we strengthen decision-making for urban climate adaptation, providing city planners and stakeholders with actionable, interoperable data. We discuss challenges in the uptake of FAIR implementation, and present an outlook on scaling our approach to other cities. Our findings contribute to the broader discourse on how FAIR principles can accelerate climate resilience efforts in urban environments.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	climate change, resilience, climate adaptation, interoperability, urban planning
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Depositing User:	REAL CORP Administrator
Date Deposited:	16 May 2025 08:39
Last Modified:	16 May 2025 08:39
URI:	http://repository.corp.at/id/eprint/1157

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