Welcome to the MIRACA Book#
The Multihazard Infrastructure Risk Assessment for Climate Adaptation (MIRACA) project, is a 4-year Horizon Europe project that catalyses and empowers the implementation of adaptation measures for Critical Infrastructure throughout Europe, by providing public authorities with a toolkit to take evidence-based decisions. The project started in January 2023 and will run until December 2026.
Systemic Risk Approach for Critical Infrastructure#
There is an urgent need to adapt Europe’s critical infrastructure to our rapidly changing climate. Public authorities need support to enable them to pinpoint the locations of risks from climate change and develop affordable strategies to enhance infrastructure systems’ resilience. Existing methods for climate risk analysis are not tailored to the complexities of Critical Infrastructure (CI), because they do not properly account for systems interdependencies, as well as still containing key data gaps.
MIRACA builds from the standard climate risk assessment framework and extends beyond the state of the art in CI systems analysis and appraisal of the resilience of adaptation solutions.
The Approach#
The MIRACA approach focuses on assessing climate risk beyond the asset-level, expanding it to conceive Critical Infrastructure from a network and systems-level perspective, both for risk assessment and the design of adaptation strategies.
Use Cases#
To demonstrate, validate and promote the uptake of the tools and methods developed as part of the project, we have selected five Use Cases, in which local public authorities and relevant CI managers steer and co-develop our decision-support toolkit. These Use Cases cover a variety of locations, infrastructure types and climate hazards.
Technical background#
The background section focuses on the models and methods behind the MIRACA Approach, describing in more detail the core developments of the project. These include a description of the methodologies for the full climate risk steps, from exposure to adaptation appraisal. These aim to support users to better understand the models and tools of the project.
Note
The MIRACA workbench is an active, evolving project and will be updated continuously during 2026.
