ID: 1898
Presenting Author: Danial Mohabat Doost
Session: 665 - Planning Support Systems for Environmental Assessment and Urban Decision-Making
Status: pending
Open-source GIS tools like R3C-GeoResilience make complex spatial data accessible, fostering trust, participation, in territorial planning for resilience through shared vulnerability mapping.
GIS-based platforms that make complex geospatial data transparent and intuitive empower communities and local actors to effectively interpret emerging challenges and opportunities, thereby contributing to the rebuilding of public trust to decision making. R3C-GeoResilience is an open-source planning support system developed by Responsible Risk Resilience Centre (R3C) of Politecnico di Torino within QGIS designed to operationalise territorial resilience through vulnerability mapping .The platform provides an interactive and participatory workflow that integrates georeferenced indicators, enabling local administrations to identify territorial vulnerabilities linked to multiple hazards. Through a co-designed correlation-matrix weighting process, local practitioners actively contribute to defining and interpreting spatial relationships, transforming technical analysis into a collaborative and shared knowledge process.
The methodology was tested and applied across different case-study areas. The first application concerns the Union of Bassa Romagna (Italy), a territory highly exposed to flood and hydrological hazards, where the tool was integrated into a capacity-building programme that trained municipal officials to read, interpret, and act on spatial evidence. The second case study focuses on the municipalities of Norcia and Camerino, located within the Central Italy earthquake crater affected by the 2016–2017 seismic events. Together, these cases demonstrate how open and replicable platforms can foster adaptive, climate-responsive, and socially legitimate planning.
Danial Mohabat Doost is Research Manager at R3C–Politecnico di Torino whose works on inequalities shaping community vulnerability and adaptive capacity.
Coauthor 1: Grazia Brunetta