The project LIFE Garachico has published the “GIS viewer”an innovative online tool that provides citizens with detailed information on the hazard, exposure and vulnerability facing events coastal and floods in the urban area of the municipality of Tenerife.
The GIS Viewer is the result of the first phase of the LIFE Garachico Project, which has concluded with this interactive platform that allows citizens to explore the results of the coastal flood risk analysis, as reported this Thursday in a statement by the aforementioned initiative .
The perceived risk as a result of a participatory action with the local population during the Canary Islands International Environmental Film Festival (Ficmec) last year has also been included.
One of the main advantages of the GIS Viewer is its ease of navigation, explain its promoters, since it is organized into four categories: danger, exposure, vulnerability and risk.
In addition, in the exposure layers, users can delve into the elements that were taken into account in the analysis, classified into six thematic groups: population, land use, buildings, furniture, cultural heritage, and natural heritage.
According to the reports of the United Nations Climate Change Panel, the GIS Viewer includes the hazard and risk analyzes for three different scenarios, which are the one that represents the current emissions situation, a moderate scenario with gas concentrations greenhouse gases that stabilize before the year 2100 and a third pessimistic scenario with high concentrations of this type of gases without stabilization at the end of the century.
Combining these scenarios with return periods of two and 100 years, and different time scales (mid-century and end-of-century), it will be possible to choose between 10 different combinations.
The GIS Viewer also provides the possibility of activating layers simultaneously, taking measurements, browsing in two windows at the same time and even loading its own layers, all with the aim of exploring the situation of Garachico in the face of coastal flooding events.
In addition, for the population to acquire a more precise perception of risks, the GIS Viewer of the LIFE Garachico Project aims to promote the resilience of the municipality in the face of the storm surge.
This new tool, which is now available to the public, will contribute to the recently started implementation phase of the project in which “soft and hard” measures will be evaluated and implemented, which will contribute to Garachico’s adaptation to adverse coastal events.
LIFE Garachico is a project for adaptation to coastal flooding due to climate change through flexible strategies in urban areas of Macaronesia.
