Prepare for adaptation options calculations

[DenoBeno]

• Change the "costs" fields to free text (cost per m^2)
• Assure that the new cost fields are shown in all relevant views
• Implement new data model (node) for "adaptation strategy" . Each strategy is for ONE land use; three variants to be created for each land use
• Allow user to define the "adaptation project" by choosing several adaptation strategies, one for each land use category (user explicitly has to choose "no adaptation" or one of the options.
• TBD: can the user define more than one adaptation project or just one?
• calculate the effects of adaptation options
• calculate the costs of adaptation options
• calculate the cost of hazard impact with/without adaptation options.
• present the results to the user.

[DenoBeno]

After yesterdays discussion, I have a better Idea how to proceed with this. First, we need change in the "cost" field of the adaptation options. There, the three cost fields need to be replaced with numeric fields (price pro m^2). This is easy, but we also need to change a presentation in all views to accommodate these three new fields and then drop the old ones.

@stefanon, @mattia-leone : I hope that I can change this later today.

Once the fields are available, PLINIUS will start filling in the data. All values will be in €, valid for Italy (we need to inform the user about this and also to think about transforming this to Austria or Sweden later.)

• Considering the issue with costs of per-meter adaptation options, we can ignore these. All adaptation options will have per m^2 cost, how is up to PLINIUS.

Next is to define a new node or taxonomy type that will be used to define "adaptation strategy". Something like this:

1. one land use category (e.g. residential middle density houses)
2. one or or more adaptation options
3. percentage of the land use category to apply this to (one or one for each adaptation option?)
4. "strategy" (need another name for this) of choosing where to apply this - e.g. random or "cells with high heat hazard" or "cells with high population exposure" or "cells with high heat mortality"
5. some text & illustrations
6. Other?

Each adaptation strategy defines one or more adaptation options applied to one land use category. E.g. "apply cool roofs and green walls on 50% of the residential middle density houses". I am not 100% sure what exactly is needed in this node, so [I have opened a ticket for this] #155).

• As soon as we have this covered, PLINIUS will add some strategies.

Third part is to add "Adaptation Options: Appraisal" step where user can choose one adaptation option strategy for each land use. They don't have to choose adaptation strategy for each land use category - those that aren't set are implicitly set to "no adaptation option".

I'm thinking of some table where users can choose this. The simplest solution would be to replicate what we already do for adaptation options on https://csis.myclimateservice.eu/study/25/step/3686/view/table. The problem here is that nothing prevents the user to choose several conflicting options. Better solution would be a table listing all land uses in the first column and allowing the user to choose the adaptation strategy in the second, plus having some information about this strategy shown in the third column. @patrickkaleta , @fgeyer16, do you have some bright ideas on how to do this? (I'll probably open new ticket to decide on how exactly to do this.)

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@humerh : this makes it clear what EMIKAT can get from CSIS. A list of "strategies" to apply. Each strategy is linked to its description, and then to individual adaptation options. There is no explicit geometry, just the geometry of the project. The difficult part is that EMIKAT would have to choose where to apply the the "strategy". E.g., if the strategy is to apply something to 50% of the houses, preferably in the "cells with high mortality", then EMIKAT would needs to find how many houses are in the project, find the cell with highest mortality, apply this to all houses in this cell, find the next highest mortality cell, apply there and so on - until 50% mark has been reached.

This sounds too complex to me, we need to re-design this somehow. @ALL, any ideas?

As for the cost calculations, I don't know what we have at a table today, if anything. @mattia-leone , @stefanon How are we (going to) calculate the cost of the crisis? @humerh , @patrickkaleta: is anything already designed or implemented in this direction?

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Finally, we will need something similar to what is already shown in risk/impact and ideally a possibility to compare a situation with/without adaptation options. Which reminds me that we'll have to calculate the cumulative costs over N years, not just costs of a single event.

Any comments/sugestions?

[mattia-leone]

Dear all, I am a bit lost. Everything was clear at the time of my last meeting with Denis about how to calculate the effect of adaptation, using "strategies" instead of single measures, and working with the land use percentages.
At this point I think that we should have a dedicated meeting to talk about this, let's not stall with this crucial step!

[mattia-leone]

about adaptation cost calculations, we have a very complete set of data about this.
we agreed that first the data model for strategies on the CSIS should be prepared, so that we can input all the data.
Also, we were waiting for someone to modify the cost field for the single adaptation measures (insted of €, €€, €€€) so that we can insert the revised cost data

[patrickkaleta]

about adaptation cost calculations, we have a very complete set of data about this.
we agreed that first the data model for strategies on the CSIS should be prepared, so that we can input all the data.
Also, we were waiting for someone to modify the cost field for the single adaptation measures (insted of €, €€, €€€) so that we can insert the revised cost data

I changed the cost fields, so you should be able to now insert specific values for development, retrofitting and maintenance costs. Remaining changes to the data structure will be done after the initial release of the CSIS, because such changes always affect the content synchronization between Development site and production site, which I want to keep at a minimum before the initial release.

Just one question, so that I can add a correct description to the cost fields. Is the maintenance cost calculated on a per-year basis or for the entire estimated lifespan of the adaptation option?

[DenoBeno]

I see that Partrick has changed the cost fields in adaptation options, but the old fields (and not the new ones) are still shown everywhere.

I will open a new issue for this and proceed with fixing the views. (should be OK now)

[humerh]

The interface to the REST interface, including adaptation options is included in the Wiki page:
https://github.com/clarity-h2020/csis/wiki/Services-endpoints-(used-by-CSIS)

The new views for cost reports will also be documented there.