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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This report presents the progress in the development of a City Resilience Simulator (CRS) as part of the
Coastal Cities at Risk (CCaR) project. The goal of the CRS is to integrate various impacts and adaptive
capacity measures to better assess the dynamics of community resilience in the presence of climate
change caused disasters. It combines temporal and spatial simulation to capture real-world dynamic
behaviours. In using the CRS to identify systems which contribute most to disaster resilience, a
community can take or create opportunities to emerge from a disaster with improved levels of resilience
to combat and adapt to future disasters.
The focus of this report is to describe the coupling program (CP) tool used to link together ArcGIS and
Vensim software for spatial and temporal resilience simulation. This report presents the technical
challenges and solutions for the functionality, development and use of the CP. An application of the CP
is presented using the heath care sector (specifically hospital services) as an example within the context
of the CCaR project. This report provides the foundation for developing the CP, however further
extension of the CP and CRS is required to incorporate all city system sectors (physical, health, social,
economic, and organizational). Also, discussion pertaining to incorporation of adaptation policies and
scenarios into the CRS is planned for future.
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