Implementation of a Place Game tool in the city of Rotterdam to enhance urban resilience to climate change through placemaking

The results of recent climate projections for the city of Barcelona show a relevant increment of the maximum rainfall intensities for the period 2071–2100. Considering the city as a system of systems, urban resilience is strictly linked to the proper functioning of urban services and the knowledge of the cascading effects that may occur in the case of the failure of one or more critical infrastructures of a particular strategic sector. In this context, the aim of this paper is to assess urban resilience through the analysis of the behavior of the main urban services in case of pluvial floods for current and future rainfall conditions due to climate change. A comprehensive flood risk assessment including direct, indirect, tangible and intangible impacts has been performed using cutting edge sectorial and integrated models to analyze the resilience of different urban services (urban drainage, traffic, electric and waste sectors) and their cascade effects. In addition, the paper shows how the information generated by these models can be employed to feed a more holistic analysis to provide a general overview of the city’s resilience in the case of extreme rainfall events. According to the obtained results, Barcelona could suffer a significant increase of socio-economic impacts due to climate change if adaptation measures are not adopted. In several cases, these impacts have been geographically distributed showing the specific situation of each district of the city for current and future scenarios. This information is essential for the justification and prioritization of the implementation of adaptation measures.

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Urban resilience in a context of climate change

E3S Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/e3sconf/202123400053 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 234 ◽

pp. 00053

Author(s):

Kamilia Mahdaoui ◽

Jamal Alibou

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Methodological Approach ◽

Climate Risk ◽

Risk Scores ◽

Urban Resilience ◽

Adaptation Measures ◽

Weather Events ◽

The Impact ◽

The City ◽

Adaptation Options

Morocco has experienced many weather events that have been increasingly aggravated by climate change, a global, irreversible and anthropogenic phenomenon. They have a major impact on the main sectors of the economy and on the infrastructure. The objective of the study is to propose adaptation options and the plan for their implementation to improve the resilience of certain infrastructure to climate risk, a necessary but not sufficient condition to ensure the smooth functioning of the city. The methodological approach used is the quantitative approach which consists in quantifying the selected indicators attributed to the key elements of the impact chains and normalizing, weighting and aggregating them in order to obtain as desired results the vulnerability and climate risk scores in the form of tables and interactive maps of the study area for a better interpretation (Very low, low, medium, high, very high). On the basis of these results, effective and operational adaptation measures will be suggested. Thus, having a plan for implementing adaptation options is vitally important for a city to be resilient and less vulnerable to climate risk.

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Orchestrating the nation

10.1093/oso/9780199352227.003.0017 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Barley Norton

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Global Climate Change ◽

Global Climate ◽

East Asian ◽

Ancestor Worship ◽

National Heritage ◽

The City ◽

Historical Periods ◽

Party State

This chapter addresses the cultural politics, history and revival of Vietnamese court orchestras, which were first established at the beginning of the Nguyễn dynasty (1802–1945). Based on fieldwork in the city of Hue, it considers the decolonizing processes that have enabled Vietnamese court orchestras to take their place alongside other East Asian court orchestras as a display of national identity in the global community of nations. The metaphor of ‘orchestrating the nation’ is used to refer to the ways in which Vietnamese orchestras have been harnessed for sociopolitical ends in several historical periods. Court orchestras as heritage have recourse to a generic, precolonial past, yet they are not entirely uncoupled from local roots. Through a case-study of the revival of the Nam Giao Sacrifice, a ritual for ‘venerating heaven’, the chapter addresses the dynamics of interaction and exchange between staged performances of national heritage and local Buddhist and ancestor worship rituals. It argues that with growing concern about global climate change, the spiritual and ecological resonances of the Nam Giao Sacrifice have provided opportunities for the Party-state to reassert its position as the supreme guardian of the nation and its people.

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Sharing Lisboa: A Digital Social Market to Promote Sustainable and Energy Efficient Behaviours

Climate ◽

10.3390/cli9020034 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 34

Author(s):

Catarina C. Rolim ◽

Patrícia Baptista

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

City Planning ◽

Local Level ◽

Urban Mobility ◽

Goods And Services ◽

New City ◽

Social Market ◽

The City ◽

Academic Year ◽

Change Mitigation

Several solutions and city planning policies have emerged to promote climate change and sustainable cities. The Sharing Cities program has the ambition of contributing to climate change mitigation by improving urban mobility, energy efficiency in buildings and reducing carbon emissions by successfully engaging citizens and fostering local-level innovation. A Digital Social Market (DSM), named Sharing Lisboa, was developed in Lisbon, Portugal, supported by an application (APP), enabling the exchange of goods and services bringing citizens together to support a common cause: three schools competing during one academic year (2018/2019) to win a final prize with the engagement of school community and surrounding community. Sharing Lisboa aimed to promote behaviour change and the adoption of energy-saving behaviours such as cycling and walking with the support of local businesses. Participants earned points that reverted to the cause (school) they supported. A total of 1260 users was registered in the APP, collecting more than 850,000 points through approximately 17,000 transactions. This paper explores how the DSM has the potential to become a new city service promoting its sustainable development. Furthermore, it is crucial for this concept to reach economic viability through a business model that is both profitable and useful for the city, businesses and citizens, since investment will be required for infrastructure and management of such a market.

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Observations on Palaeogeographical Evolution of Akrotiri Salt Lake, Lemesos, Cyprus

Geosciences ◽

10.3390/geosciences11080321 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (8) ◽

pp. 321

Author(s):

Miltiadis Polidorou ◽

Niki Evelpidou ◽

Theodora Tsourou ◽

Hara Drinia ◽

Ferréol Salomon ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Landscape Evolution ◽

Salt Lake ◽

Active Tectonics ◽

Scientific Interest ◽

Progressive Change ◽

The Holocene ◽

Holocene Sediment ◽

First Time ◽

The City

Akrotiri Salt Lake is located 5 km west of the city of Lemesos in the southernmost part of the island of Cyprus. The evolution of the Akrotiri Salt Lake is of great scientific interest, occurring during the Holocene when eustatic and isostatic movements combined with local active tectonics and climate change developed a unique geomorphological environment. The Salt Lake today is a closed lagoon, which is depicted in Venetian maps as being connected to the sea, provides evidence of the geological setting and landscape evolution of the area. In this study, for the first time, we investigated the development of the Akrotiri Salt Lake through a series of three cores which penetrated the Holocene sediment sequence. Sedimentological and micropaleontological analyses, as well as geochronological studies were performed on the deposited sediments, identifying the complexity of the evolution of the Salt Lake and the progressive change of the area from a maritime space to an open bay and finally to a closed salt lake.

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The Impact Assessment of Climate Change on Building Energy Consumption in Poland

Energies ◽

10.3390/en14144084 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 14 (14) ◽

pp. 4084

Author(s):

Hassan Bazazzadeh ◽

Peiman Pilechiha ◽

Adam Nadolny ◽

Mohammadjavad Mahdavinejad ◽

Seyedeh sara Hashemi safaei

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Energy Consumption ◽

Thermal Load ◽

Building Energy ◽

Building Energy Consumption ◽

Building Sector ◽

Energy Demands ◽

Heating Load ◽

The Impact ◽

The City

A substantial share of the building sector in global energy demand has attracted scholars to focus on the energy efficiency of the building sector. The building’s energy consumption has been projected to increase due to mass urbanization, high living comfort standards, and, more importantly, climate change. While climate change has potential impacts on the rate of energy consumption in buildings, several studies have shown that these impacts differ from one region to another. In response, this paper aimed to investigate the impact of climate change on the heating and cooling energy demands of buildings as influential variables in building energy consumption in the city of Poznan, Poland. In this sense, through the statistical downscaling method and considering the most recent Typical Meteorological Year (2004–2018) as the baseline, the future weather data for 2050 and 2080 of the city of Poznan were produced according to the HadCM3 and A2 GHG scenario. These generated files were then used to simulate the energy demands in 16 building prototypes of the ASHRAE 90.1 standard. The results indicate an average increase in cooling load and a decrease in heating load at 135% and 40% , respectively, by 2080. Due to the higher share of heating load, the total thermal load of the buildings decreased within the study period. Therefore, while the total thermal load is currently under the decrease, to avoid its rise in the future, serious measures should be taken to control the increased cooling demand and, consequently, thermal load and GHG emissions.

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Exposure to Floods, Climate Change, and Poverty in Vietnam

10.5194/nhess-2017-100 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Mook Bangalore ◽

Andrew Smith ◽

Ted Veldkamp

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Flood Hazard ◽

National Level ◽

Climate Change Impacts ◽

Ho Chi Minh City ◽

Poor People ◽

Socioeconomic Conditions ◽

Socioeconomic Data ◽

The City ◽

Level Analysis

Abstract. With 70 percent of its population living in coastal areas and low-lying deltas, Vietnam is highly exposed to riverine and coastal flooding. This paper examines the exposure of the population and poor people in particular to current and future flooding in Vietnam and specifically in Ho Chi Minh City, using new high-resolution flood hazard maps and spatial socioeconomic data. The national-level analysis finds that a third of today’s population is already exposed to a flood, which occurs once every 25 years, assuming no protection. For the same return period flood under current socioeconomic conditions, climate change may increase the number exposed to 38 to 46 percent of the population. Climate change impacts can make frequent events as important as rare ones: the estimates suggest a 25-year flood under future conditions can expose more people than a 200-year flood under current conditions. Although poor districts are not found to be more exposed to floods at the national level, the city-level analysis of Ho Chi Minh City provides evidence that slum areas are highly exposed. The results of this paper show the benefits of investing today in flood risk management, and can provide guidance as to where future investments may be targeted.

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