scholarly journals Managing Climate Change Through Biological Sequestration: Open Space Law Redux

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
John R. Nolon
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Space Law ◽  
Biological Sequestration

Public Urban Open Space and Human Thermal Comfort: The Implications of Alternative Climate Change and Socio-economic Scenarios

2008 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Wilson ◽  
Fergus Nicol ◽  
Leyon Nanayakkara ◽  
Anja Ueberjahn-Tritta
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Thermal Comfort ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Urban Open Space ◽  
Human Thermal Comfort

CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION: THE ROLE OF BIODIVERSITY IN URBAN OPEN SPACE

2010 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Lisle
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Urban Open Space

scholarly journals Investigation of Climate and Land Use Change Impacts on Stream Flow of Guder Catchment, Ethiopia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bekam Bekele Gulti ◽  
Boja Mokonnen Manyazew ◽  
Abdulkerim Bedewi Serur
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Stream Flow ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Smart Growth ◽  
Assessment Model ◽  
Study Region ◽  
Climate Conditions ◽  
Change Impact ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Climate change (CC) and land use/cover change (LUCC) are the main drivers of streamflow change. In this paper, we investigate the impact of climate and LULC change impact on stream flow of Guder catchment by using Soil and Water Assessment model (SWAT). The scenarios were designed in a way that LULC was changed while climate conditions remain constant; LULC was then held constant under a changing climate and combined effect of both. The result shows that, the combined impacts of climate change and LULC dynamics can be rather different from the effects that follow-on from LULC or climate change alone. Streamflow would be more sensitive to climate change than to the LULC changes scenario, even though changes in LULC have far-reaching influences on streamflow in the study region. A comprehensive strategy of low impact developments, smart growth, and open space is critical to handle future changes to streamflow systems.

scholarly journals Welfare values of sustained urban water flows for recreational and cultural amenities under climate change

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-25
Author(s):  
Alireza Nikouei ◽  
Roy Brouwer
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Stated Preference ◽  
Urban Open Space ◽  
Water Flows ◽  
Recreational Services ◽  
Drying Up ◽  
Elicitation Format ◽  
Cultural Amenities

The main objective of this study is to estimate the welfare values related to sustained water flows in the Zayandeh-Rud River for recreational and cultural amenities in the urban park of Isfahan City in Iran. As is elsewhere the case in arid regions, the drying up of the river due to growing water demand and the increasingly constrained water supply as a result of climate change and more frequent droughts is expected to result in a substantial welfare loss. A double-bounded discrete choice elicitation format is applied in a stated choice survey conducted among local residents and non-residential visitors, focusing on distance-decay and the relationship between income and demand for sustained water flows in publicly provided urban space under climate change. We reject the general finding in the literature that visitors living further away are willing to pay more for unique sites. We show that the recreational services provided by the park can be characterized as a normal economic good for which those living closer by are willing to pay more than those living further away. These results provide an important benchmark for future stated preference research related to welfare valuation of water in urban open space under climate change.

scholarly journals Circle in Space—Space in Circle: A Study of Ratio between Open Space and Built-Up Area in Historical Circular Objects

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 4662
Author(s):  
Biljana Stanislav Jović ◽  
Aleksandar Acim Čučaković ◽  
Mihailo Nebojsa Grbić
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
Multiple Objects ◽  
Open Spaces ◽  
Sustainable City ◽  
Different Diameters ◽  
Circular Design ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Historical Periods

Many cities nowadays explore different circular designs as new sustainable city concepts in different urban aspects. The new trend, as part of the adaptation for climate change, is a strategy of increasing the number of urban open spaces, and circular plan design could be a sustainable approach to urban development. This paper provides a historical overview of various examples of circular objects containing built structures and open spaces from the Neolithic to the present. The Built-Up Area (BUA) and Open Space (OS) relationships are shown histogramically for 36 objects arranged chronologically. The morphospace analysis was performed to determine any possible regularity in the relationships of parts of circular objects. For the purpose of this research, three variables were chosen. First, all selected historical examples of circular objects were divided into two main categories: objects with a total diameter smaller than 300 m and objects with a total diameter bigger than 300 m. Additionally, the selected circular objects were divided by their type of open space to better understand their spatial position. The largest number of analyzed objects belongs to the Parks–Gardens category, followed by settlements, and then earth works, sacral objects and circular buildings, with the smallest number of circular objects being in the category of allotments and plazas. The second variable was Jam area and % of Jam. The buildings are of different sizes up to several hundred m2, and the areas range up to several hundred ha. The total area to OS ratio ranges from 0% (for Large Serdab) to 100% (for multiple objects). There is a similar situation with the diameter ratios (total and “jam”). Additionally, the final variable was the historical position of the selected circular objects. Circular objects belong to all historical periods from the Neolithic to the present. The aim of this research was to explore the relationship between OS and BUA in various circular objects with different diameters of open spaces and find out if there was any regularity in this relationship. The morphospace analysis of this research indicates that there is no clear regularity in the relationship between the built-up area and the open space, but the aspects and research results shown here contribute to sustainability since the circular design approach could play a key role in future circular design processes.

Synergies and Co-Benefits of Climate Change Planning in "Street Open Space" - Building Reconstruction As a Driver Along Primary Streets

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 101206
Author(s):  
Yu-Hsin Tsai ◽  
Chia-Hsin Hsu ◽  
Chia-Ching Lin
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Building Reconstruction

scholarly journals Green open space masterplan at Jakarta Capital City, Indonesia for climate change mitigation

2018 ◽  
Vol 200 ◽  
pp. 012042 ◽  
Author(s):  
R Setiowati ◽  
H S Hasibuan ◽  
R H Koestoer
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Change Mitigation

scholarly journals Managed retreat through voluntary buyouts of flood-prone properties

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (10) ◽  
pp. eaax8995 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharine J. Mach ◽  
Caroline M. Kraan ◽  
Miyuki Hino ◽  
A. R. Siders ◽  
Erica M. Johnston ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United States ◽  
Social Vulnerability ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Open Space ◽  
The United States ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
The Government

Retreat from some areas will become unavoidable under intensifying climate change. Existing deployments of managed retreat are at small scale compared to potential future needs, leaving open questions about where, when, and how retreat under climate change will occur. Here, we analyze more than 40,000 voluntary buyouts of flood-prone properties in the United States, in which homeowners sell properties to the government and the land is restored to open space. In contrast to model-based evaluation of potential future retreat, local governments in counties with higher population and income are more likely to administer buyouts. The bought-out properties themselves, however, are concentrated in areas of greater social vulnerability within these counties, pointing to the importance of assessing the equity of buyout implementation and outcomes. These patterns demonstrate the challenges associated with locally driven implementation of managed retreat and the potential benefits of experimentation with different approaches to retreat.

scholarly journals Role of Neighborhood Design in Reducing Impacts of Development and Climate Change, West Sherwood, OR

2022 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael B. Tchintcharauli-Harrison ◽  
Mary V. Santelmann ◽  
Hattie Greydanus ◽  
Omar Shehab ◽  
Maria Wright
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
Stormwater Management ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Low Impact Development ◽  
Impervious Surface ◽  
Neighborhood Design ◽  
Design Storm ◽  
Management Actions ◽  
Alternative Scenarios

We used the EPA SWMM-5. 1 model to evaluate the relative impact of neighborhood design and constructed Low Impact Development (LID) features on infiltration, evaporation, and runoff for three future scenarios. In the Current Course (CC) future, current regulations and policies remain in place under lower rates of climate change and population growth. In the Stressed Resources (SR) future, rapid rates of population growth and climate change stress water systems, and conventional development patterns and management actions fail to keep pace with a changing environment. In the Integrated Water (IW) future, with the same rapid rates of climate change and population growth as the SR future, informed water management anticipates and adapts to expected changes. The IW scenario retains public open space, extensive use of constructed LID features, and has the lowest proportion of impervious surface. Neighborhood designs varied in the number of dwelling units, density of development, and spatial extent of nature-based solutions and constructed LID features used for stormwater management. We compared the scenarios using SWMM-5.1 for a set of NRCS Type 1a design storms (2-yr, 25-yr, 20% increase over 25-yr, 30% increase over 25-yr) with precipitation input at 6-min time steps as well as a set of 10-year continuous runs. Results illustrate the importance of neighborhood design in urban hydrology. The design with the highest proportion of impervious surface (SR future) produced runoff of up to 45–50% of precipitation for all variations of the 25-year storm, compared to 34–44 and 23–39% for the CC and IW futures, respectively. Evaporation accounted for only 2–3% of precipitation in the 25-year design storm simulations for any scenario. Results of continuous 10-year simulations were similar to the results of design storms. The proportion of precipitation that became runoff was highest in the SR future (33%), intermediate in the CC (16%), and lowest in the IW future (9%). Evaporation accounted for 6, 11, and 14 of precipitation in the SR, CC, and IW futures with LID, respectively. Infiltration was higher in scenarios with LID than for the same scenario without LID, and varied with the extent of LID employed, accounting for 59, 71, and 74% of precipitation in the SR, CC, and IW scenarios with LID. In addition to differences in performance for stormwater management, the alternative scenarios also provide different sets of co-benefits. The IW and SR future designs both provide more housing than the CC, and the IW future has the lowest cost of development per dwelling unit.

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