scholarly journals Trends in urban planning, climate adaptation and resilience in Zanzibar, Tanzania

2021 ◽  
Vol 77 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Climate Adaptation

scholarly journals Application of Copernicus Data for Climate-Relevant Urban Planning Using the Example of Water, Heat, and Vegetation

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (18) ◽  
pp. 3634
Author(s):  
Michael Max Bühler ◽  
Christoph Sebald ◽  
Diana Rechid ◽  
Eberhard Baier ◽  
Alexander Michalski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Environmental Data ◽  
Local Data ◽  
Vegetation Monitoring ◽  
Adaptation Measures ◽  
Sensing Data

Specific climate adaptation and resilience measures can be efficiently designed and implemented at regional and local levels. Climate and environmental databases are critical for achieving the sustainable development goals (SDGs) and for efficiently planning and implementing appropriate adaptation measures. Available federated and distributed databases can serve as necessary starting points for municipalities to identify needs, prioritize resources, and allocate investments, taking into account often tight budget constraints. High-quality geospatial, climate, and environmental data are now broadly available and remote sensing data, e.g., Copernicus services, will be critical. There are forward-looking approaches to use these datasets to derive forecasts for optimizing urban planning processes for local governments. On the municipal level, however, the existing data have only been used to a limited extent. There are no adequate tools for urban planning with which remote sensing data can be merged and meaningfully combined with local data and further processed and applied in municipal planning and decision-making. Therefore, our project CoKLIMAx aims at the development of new digital products, advanced urban services, and procedures, such as the development of practical technical tools that capture different remote sensing and in-situ data sets for validation and further processing. CoKLIMAx will be used to develop a scalable toolbox for urban planning to increase climate resilience. Focus areas of the project will be water (e.g., soil sealing, stormwater drainage, retention, and flood protection), urban (micro)climate (e.g., heat islands and air flows), and vegetation (e.g., greening strategy, vegetation monitoring/vitality). To this end, new digital process structures will be embedded in local government to enable better policy decisions for the future.

A coastal urban adaptation model with time-discounting, optimizing and satisficing decision making

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dmitry Kovalevsky ◽  
Jürgen Scheffran
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Sea Level Rise ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Coastal Hazards ◽  
Coastal Protection ◽  
Model Parameters ◽  
Urban Adaptation ◽  
Adaptation Model

<p>We develop a discrete-time coastal urban adaptation model where the ‘present’ and ‘future’ time periods are distinguished. In the model, the city anticipates sea level rise and related coastal hazards with adverse impacts on urban economy in the future period. However, the magnitude of future sea level rise and induced climate damages are known with uncertainty. The urban planning agent has to make at present a decision on how much to invest in climate adaptation (in the form of construction of coastal protection). We explore three complementary models of decision making. They include the intertemporal maximization of time-discounted expected utility of consumption and two versions of the VIABLE modelling framework with an optimizing and a satisficing urban planning agent, respectively. It is shown that in certain model setups, investment decisions depend discontinuously on the value of key model parameters. In particular, when these parameters are varied, the urban planner can discontinuously switch from the ‘business-as-usual’ (BaU) strategy, when no adaptation investment is taken, to a proactive adaptation.</p>

scholarly journals Smart Urban Governance for Climate Change Adaptation

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 223-226
Author(s):  
Thomas Thaler ◽  
Patrick A. Witte ◽  
Thomas Hartmann ◽  
Stan C. M. Geertman
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Technical Expert ◽  
Political Dimensions ◽  
Digital Knowledge

Climate change will affect the way cities work substantially. Flooding and urban heating are among the most tangible consequences in cities around the globe. Extreme hydro-meteorological events will likely increase in the future due to climate change. Making cities climate-resilient is therefore an urgent challenge to sustain urban living. To adapt cities to the consequences of climate change, new ideas and concepts need to be adopted. This oftentimes requires action from different stakeholder groups and citizens. In other words, climate adaptation of cities needs governance. Facilitating such urban governance for climate adaptation is thus a big and increasing challenge of urban planning. Smart tools and its embedding in smart urban governance is promising to help in this respect. To what extent can the use of digital knowledge technologies in a collaborative planning setting be instrumental in facilitating climate adaptation? This question entails visualising effects of climate adaptation interventions and facilitating dialogue between governments, businesses such as engineering companies, and citizens. The aim of this thematic issue is to explore how the application of technologies in urban planning, embedded in smart urban governance, can contribute to provide climate change adaptation. We understand smart urban governance in this context both in terms of disclosing technical expert information to the wider public, and in terms of supporting with the help of technologies the wider governance debates between the stakeholders involved. The contributions reflect this dual focus on socio-technical innovations and planning support, and therefore include various dimensions, from modelling and interacting to new modes of urban governance and political dimensions of using technologies in climate change adaptation in urban areas.

scholarly journals Application of COPERNICUS Data for Climate-Relevant Urban Planning Using the Example of Water, Heat, and Vegetation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Max Bühler ◽  
Christoph Sebald ◽  
Diana Rechid ◽  
Eberhard Baier ◽  
Alexander Michalski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Environmental Data ◽  
Mitigation Measures ◽  
Local Data ◽  
In Situ Data

Specific climate adaptation and resilience measures can be efficiently designed and implemented at the regional and local level. Climate and environmental databases are of critical importance to achieving sustainability goals (SDGs) and for the efficient planning and implementation of suitable mitigation measures: Available databases can serve municipalities as a vital starting points to determine requirements, prioritize resources and allocate investments under consideration of commonly tight budget restrictions. High-quality geo, climate and environmental data are now available – data from remote sensing, i.e. Copernicus services will be of crucial importance. Forward-looking approaches exist to using such data to derive forecasts for urban planning process optimization for municipal administrations. On municipal level, however, the existing data have so far only been used to a limited extent, since there are no practical tools for urban planning that can be used to merge and meaningfully combine remote sensing data with local data and to further process and apply in municipal planning processes. Therefore, our project CoKLIMAx aims at the development of new digital products, advanced urban services and procedures, such as the development of practice-oriented technical tools that acquire various remote sensing and in-situ data sets for validation and further processing.

scholarly journals Development of Low-Threshold Tools and Efficient Work Processes for Data Acquisition, Processing, Evaluation, and Application by Municipalities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Max Bühler ◽  
Christoph Sebald ◽  
Diana Rechid ◽  
Eberhard Baier ◽  
Alexander Michalski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Environmental Data ◽  
Mitigation Measures ◽  
Local Data ◽  
In Situ Data

Specific climate adaptation and resilience measures can be efficiently designed and implemented at the regional and local level. Climate and environmental databases are of critical importance to achieving sustainability goals (SDGs) and for the efficient planning and implementation of suitable mitigation measures: Available databases can serve municipalities as a vital starting points to determine requirements, prioritize resources and allocate investments under consideration of commonly tight budget restrictions. High-quality geo, climate and environmental data are now available – data from remote sensing, i.e. Copernicus services will be of crucial importance. Forward-looking approaches exist to using such data to derive forecasts for urban planning process optimization for municipal administrations. On municipal level, however, the existing data have so far only been used to a limited extent, since there are no practical tools for urban planning that can be used to merge and meaningfully combine remote sensing data with local data and to further process and apply in municipal planning processes. Therefore, our project CoKLIMAx aims at the development of new digital products, advanced urban services and procedures, such as the development of practice-oriented technical tools that acquire various remote sensing and in-situ data sets for validation and further processing.

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