Community Resilience to Climate Change: Theory, Research and Practice

112 The set of five indicators in Table 3 shows that the three dimensions environment, governance and society were seen as particular important. The indicator rated as the most important was the environment indicator cold air parcels. Second and fourth ranked were governance indicators, namely inter-offices working groups regarding risk, climate change and resilience and strategies against heavy rain and heat in plans. Third and fifth ranked were two indicators from the dimension society. The respondents saw the importance of experience with extreme events in the last five years and citizen information about heat, heavy rain and flooding as particularly crucial for building urban resilience. Figure 2. Median importance of indicators grouped into five dimensions. Table 3. The five indicators rated as most important in the survey. Table 4 displays the five lowest ranked indicators in context of their relevance related to urban climate resilience. The overall lowest rated indicators were both from the society dimension, namely voter turnout and number of associations. The respondents did not think that they were relevant for measuring and monitoring urban resilience. The third lowest indicator was the infrastructure indicator broadband access. Fourth and fifth were two economic indicators measuring ratio insolvencies to start-ups and share employees in largest sector.

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