The Urban Geo-climate Footprint (UGF) is a new approach, designed by geologists from the Geological Survey of Italy (ISPRA), based on
a tool aiming to classify and cluster cities from a geological point of view.
According to United Nations, cities will soon be places where more than half the world’s population will live. They are in constant
interaction with geological settings and geographical contexts of the places where they were developed.
This project's basic assumption is that cities with similar geological-geographical settings can have similar challenges to manage,
both due to common geological issues and climate change effects on the surface. Having an instrument capable of classifying and
clustering cities can be useful for rapid comparison and best practice exchange. The UGF tool, which allows this classification
activity, has been designed by ISPRA with the collaboration of several colleagues of UGEG and with a Ph.D. student from the
University of Granada (Spain).
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