Rebuild the City! Towards Resource-efficient Urban Structures through the Use of Energy Concepts, Adaptation to Climate Change, and Land Use Management

2010 ◽  
pp. 35-48
Author(s):  
Fabian Dosch ◽  
Lars Porsche
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Management ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Urban Structures ◽  
The City

Methodology for sustainable development along an eco-fragile zone for land use management and mitigating climate change: Evidence of East Kolkata Wetlands

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sudeshna Kumar ◽  
Haimanti Banerji ◽  
Biplab Kanti Sengupta
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
City Size ◽  
Land Use Management ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
East Kolkata Wetland ◽  
East Kolkata Wetlands ◽  
The City

<p>Kolkata’s city core is getting depopulated but has experienced an explosive population growth leading to rapid urbanization which is encroaching the ecologically fragile wetlands of the eastern fringe of the main city. This contrasting urban growth along the East Kolkata wetland is accounted mainly for the increase in city size, expansion of tertiary and service sector activities especially the IT boom, and the improved transit facilities along the eastern fringe. This has helped the real estate sector to thrive along the vulnerable eastern fringe of the city, leading to a drastic change in the wetland ecosystem. Secondary studies have also indicated that consumption of wetlands, indicated by fragmented land use has altered the microclimate of Kolkata. The significant land cover change due to human-induced perturbations has led to an insurgence of temperature in the region <strong>(Li, Mitra, Dong, & Yang, 2018)</strong>. The entire transit corridor is subjected to verticalization juxtaposing the cultural essence of Kolkata bringing with it a myriad of Economic, Social, Cultural and subsequent planning challenges. The critical review of the selective literature shows how the best planning practices have integrated transit policies with land use. This has further helped the researcher in formulating strategies and policies specific to the regional context in order to render sustainable development in the study area. The study explores how the transit policies in Kolkata have actually transformed the city physically, socially, culturally and changed its microclimate. The study identifies future trends and assesses the future development potential, intensification with the help of qualitative and quantitative analysis. The study also conducts land suitability analysis for framing proposals and recommendations for ensuring sustainable development along the East Kolkata Wetland.  The outcome of this study is a methodology for sustainability strategic planning for developing the growth node along the eastern fringe of Kolkata which will curb the encroachment of the East Kolkata Wetlands. The study also provides a platform for policy recommendations for land use management and mitigate future climate changes in this eco-fragile zone.</p><p>Keywords: landuse; climate change; transit policies; sustainable planning; wetlands</p><p>Reference</p><p>Li, X., Mitra, C., Dong, L., & Yang, Q. (2018). Understanding land use change impacts on microclimate using Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 103, 115–126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pce.2017.01.017</p>

scholarly journals Urban Shrinkage and Sustainability: Assessing the Nexus between Population Density, Urban Structures and Urban Sustainability

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (15) ◽  
pp. 4142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ondřej Slach ◽  
Vojtěch Bosák ◽  
Luděk Krtička ◽  
Alexandr Nováček ◽  
Petr Rumpel
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Population Density ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Urban Structure ◽  
Land Uses ◽  
Urban Structures ◽  
Urban Level ◽  
Land Use Development ◽  
Planning Culture ◽  
The City

Urban shrinkage has become a common pathway (not only) in post-socialist cities, which represents new challenges for traditionally growth-oriented spatial planning. Though in the post-socialist area, the situation is even worse due to prevailing weak planning culture and resulting uncoordinated development. The case of the city of Ostrava illustrates how the problem of (in)efficient infrastructure operation, and maintenance, in already fragmented urban structure is exacerbated by the growing size of urban area (through low-intensity land-use) in combination with declining size of population (due to high rate of outmigration). Shrinkage, however, is, on the intra-urban level, spatially differentiated. Population, paradoxically, most intensively declines in the least financially demanding land-uses and grows in the most expensive land-uses for public administration. As population and urban structure development prove to have strong inertia, this land-use development constitutes a great challenge for a city’s future sustainability. The main objective of the paper is to explore the nexus between change in population density patterns in relation to urban shrinkage, and sustainability of public finance.

Planning for Women and other Disenabled Groups, with Reference to the Provision of Public Toilets in Britain

1996 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 573-588 ◽  
Author(s):  
C H Greed
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
North American ◽  
Organisational Context ◽  
Urban Structures ◽  
Existing Problems ◽  
Governmental Support ◽  
Alternative Approaches ◽  
The City ◽  
Public Toilets

In this paper the reasons why it is proving so difficult to implement enabling policies to make urban space more accessible for women and other disenabled groups, with particular reference to the provision of public toilets in Britain, are investigated. Toilet provision is described, and factors are identified which have contributed to the situation, with reference to the governmental, professional, and organisational context. Alternative approaches to implementation are considered and examples are drawn from North American zoning-based systems. Although land-use zoning has a reputation for being socially divisive it is argued that zoning ordinance systems can be used constructively as a means of achieving social provision such as toilet facilities. It is concluded that, although it is important to solve existing problems by modifying existing urban structures, a more radical reconceptualisation of the city is needed to meet the needs of the majority of its users. To achieve this there is a need for a change in the subcultural values of the decisionmakers and for governmental support.

Hydrological and water quality impact assessment of a Mediterranean limno-reservoir under climate change and land use management scenarios

2014 ◽  
Vol 509 ◽  
pp. 354-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugenio Molina-Navarro ◽  
Dennis Trolle ◽  
Silvia Martínez-Pérez ◽  
Antonio Sastre-Merlín ◽  
Erik Jeppesen
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Water Quality ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Land Use Management ◽  
Management Scenarios ◽  
Water Quality Impact

scholarly journals North central Victoria – climate change and land-use: potentials for third century in a timeless land

2010 ◽  
Vol 122 (2) ◽  
pp. 161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Mansergh
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Extreme Weather Events ◽  
Catchment Management ◽  
Private Land ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
North Central ◽  
The North ◽  
Land Use And Management

For the 21st century, scenarios of future climate under global warming suggest that Bassian-Eyrean bioclimatic region of northern Victoria, centred on the North Central Catchment Management Authority (NCCMA), will become markedly warmer and drier. Significant climate change is a real possibility midcentury and some basic bio-physical attributes underpinning the current ecology, land-use and management will be altered. Societal adaptation to climate change will include enhancing landscape resilience and changes to the mix of inter-related ecosystem services. The increasing understanding of these inter-relationships will allow for the creation of a more holistic quantification and production of landscape services. In combination, these challenge the past land-use paradigm on the driest, inhabited continent. Following the mid-19th century gold rushes, land-use in the NCCMA represented the epitome of the colonial land-use paradigm through clearing for agriculture and pastoralism. Victoria has long had the highest percentage private land of any Australian state. The NCCMA catchment is the most denuded of native vegetation, with the smallest percentage of public land and conservation reserves, and is now the centre of a continental concentration of bioregions under high environmental stress. The original primacy of agriculture was fulfilled, sometimes under adverse circumstances, but resultant landscape legacies persist within the relative economic decline of Australian agriculture. The amelioration of these within a future land stewardship that is water-stressed, carbon constrained and prone to extreme weather events is a major challenge. Exploring landscape adaptation, the simple questions arise: From what? To what? This contribution examines broad land-use in the NCCMA in the long term context of climate change and adaptation, land-use and the perceived valuation of ecosystem services from the landscape. The increasing realisation of the interconnectedness of these phenomena and the necessity for ecologically sustainable agriculture provide enhanced drivers for the evolution of new landscape meanings in the context of an inter-generational equity and climate change response.

Employing the enhanced Regional Tourism Sustainable Adaptation Framework with a case study of climate change vulnerability in Mombasa, Kenya

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-71
Author(s):  
Joseph Muiruri Njoroge ◽  
Beate MW Ratter ◽  
Lucy Atieno ◽  
Innocent M Mugabe
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Weak Institutions ◽  
Regional Tourism ◽  
Regional Dynamics ◽  
The City ◽  
Adaptation Options

This paper attempts to provide an empirical application of the enhanced Regional Tourism Sustainable Adaptation Framework using a case study of Mombasa Kenya. Climate variability is a challenge to tourism destinations, especially coastal and Island destinations, categories under which Mombasa, our study site falls under. Mombasa has limited capacity to adapt to climate change considering its socio economic conditions and weak institutions, thus making it necessary to explore the possible sustainable pathways for the city using the enhanced Regional Tourism Sustainable Adaptation Framework. Earlier frameworks for tourism adaptation to climate change lacked focus on regional dynamics as well as sustainability aspects, and their implementation pose the risk of mal adaptation to some extent. Using secondary data and data from interviews with tourism stakeholders in Mombasa, the enhanced Regional Tourism Sustainable Adaptation Framework guides our assessment of vulnerability and resilience of the destination, as well as identification of region specific adaptation options for the city within the context of sustainable practice. Based on climate change perceived impacts, risks and vulnerability various adaptation options are presented and discussed as provided in literature. The usefulness of the framework in guiding regional tourism destination managers and policy makers in their pursuit for a regional adaptation options within the tourism sector in order to reduce destinations vulnerability, increase resilience and take advantage of opportunities presented by climate change is underscored.

scholarly journals DINAMIKA DAN TANTANGAN PENGGUNAAN DAN PEMANFAATAN TANAH DI WILAYAH PULAU KECIL

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sukmo Pinuji ◽  
Muh Arif Suhattanto ◽  
Tjahjo Arianto
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Climate Changes ◽  
Small Island ◽  
Marine Resources ◽  
Land Resource ◽  
Land Use Management ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Marine Products ◽  
Geographical Characteristic

Abstract: Small island land resource management has specifc characteristic, differ from its main island, due to its geographical characteristic. Moreover, small Island is also vulnerable due to climate changes. Located on Sumenep District, East Java, Masalembu is one of the example of inhabited small island in Indonesia, represent the dynamic and land use management in small island area. This research use DPSIR (drivers, pressures, states, impacts, and responses) method to capture those dynamics. The results show that the dynamics of land use and utilization in Masalembu are described as follow: (i) land use and utilization activities are highly influenced by economic growth, climate change due to the fluctuation of marine products, and population growth; (ii) climate change, together with exploitation of marine resources, resulting the decrease of marine products, thus drive the population to start and to cultivate the land for improving their income. In the long run, land products from agriculture and farming sectors become competitive commodities beside fsheries; (iii) the absence of zonation, strategic, and action plans on land use and utilization control giving the consequences of unstructured, unplanned, and unsustainable land use and utilization.Intisari: Pengelolaan sumberdaya tanah di pulau kecil memiliki ciri khusus yang berbeda dengan pulau induk, terkait karakteristik geografsnya. Selain itu, pulau kecil juga memiliki kerentanan terhadap fenomena perubahan iklim. Masalembu, merupakan salah satu contoh dari ribuan pulau kecil berpenghuni di Indonesia yang dapat mewakili gambaran dinamika pengelolaan dan pemanfaatan lahan di wilayah pulau kecil. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode DPSIR (drivers, pressures, states, impacts, dan responses) untuk menangkap gambaran dinamika tersebut. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa dinamika penggunaan dan pemanfaatan lahan di Pulau Masalembu dapat dilihat sebagai berikut: (i) aktivitas penduduk atas tanah sangat dipengaruhi oleh pertumbuhan ekonomi, perubahan iklim yang menyebabkan pasang surutnya hasil perikanan laut, dan pertumbuhan penduduk baik yang terjadi karena kelahiran maupun migrasi; (ii) perubahan iklim serta eksploitasi sumberdaya laut yang berlebihan sehingga tidak dapat lagi memenuhi kebutuhan ekonomi masyarakat, menjadi faktor pendorong masyarakat untuk mulai memanfaatkan tanah sebagai alternatif penghasilan, yang kemudian beralih menjadi komoditas unggulan, serta (iii) tidak adanya rencana zonasi dan rencana strategis penggunaan dan pemanfaatan tanah membuat pola-pola penggunaan dan pemanfaatannya menjadi tidak terstruktur dan terencana, serta tidak memenuhi prinsip sustainability .

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