scholarly journals Engaging the Private Homeowner: Linking Climate Change and Green Stormwater Infrastructure

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 4791 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Beery
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Stormwater Management ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Extreme Rainfall ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Private Landowner ◽  
Green Stormwater Infrastructure

Current and projected climate change in the Minnesota Lake Superior Coastal Area indicates an increase in frequency and intensity of extreme rainfall. One key outcome of this change is a subsequent potential increase in stormwater runoff, a concern exacerbated by the region’s shallow, often clay soils and exposed bedrock, along with highly impervious urban surfaces. This situation, coupled with public perception of climate change that is increasingly inclusive of severe weather, highlights an opportunity to apply green infrastructure to the challenge of stormwater management, referred to as green stormwater infrastructure. In addition to coordinated public action at local, state, and national levels, there is a role for the private landowner to participate in this form of climate adaptation. Private citizens have an opportunity to both protect their home and property while contributing to overall stormwater management for the community in which they live. Focus group research was conducted to better understand outreach and involve local residents in the creation of a tool to assist private green stormwater infrastructure efforts. Results of the focus group sessions were analyzed, and key themes emerged from the data to guide this process and support private home/landowner action. It is recommended that a fifth domain be added to the typology for public and private roles in climate adaptation, i.e. private adaptation for public and private benefit.

scholarly journals Stormwater Management in a Time of Climate Change: Insights from a Series of Scenario-Building Dialogues

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seth P. Tuler ◽  
Thomas Webler ◽  
Jason L. Rhoades
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Stormwater Management ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Contextual Knowledge ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Management Actions ◽  
Trade Offs

Abstract Numerous decision support tools have been developed to assist stormwater managers to understand future scenarios and devise management strategies. This paper presents one such tool, the Vulnerability, Consequences, and Adaptation Planning Scenarios (VCAPS) process, and reports on experiences from its deployment in 10 coastal communities on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. VCAPS helps to elucidate local complexities, couplings, and contextual nuance through dialogue among technical experts and those with detailed contextual knowledge of a community. Participants in the process develop qualitative scenarios of climate change impacts and how different management strategies may prevent or mitigate undesirable consequences. The scenarios help stormwater managers diagnose potential problems that may emerge from climate change and variability, which can then be subject to further detailed analysis. The authors describe five challenges faced by stormwater managers and how insights that emerge from scenario-based processes like VCAPS can help address them: characterizing the implications of interacting climate stressors that originate stormwater, bringing all available expertise and local knowledge to bear on the problem of stormwater management, integrating local and scientific information about coupled human–environment systems, identifying management actions and their trade-offs, and facilitating planning for sustained coordination among multiple public and private entities.

scholarly journals Urban Planning and Design for Building Neighborhood Resilience to Climate Change

Land ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 387
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Rędzińska ◽  
Monika Piotrkowska
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Multicriteria Analysis ◽  
Design Stage ◽  
Urban Structure ◽  
Adaptive Potential ◽  
Ecological Sensitivity ◽  
Planning And Design

The aim of the paper was to present the procedure of building neighborhood resilience to climate threats, embedded in planning (from the strategic to local level) and design process and focused on usage of natural adaptive potential. The presented approach encompasses: (1) the strategic identification of focal areas in terms of climate adaptation needs, (2) comprehensive diagnosis of local ecological vulnerability and natural adaptive potential to build adaptive capacity, and (3) incorporation of natural adaptive potential through an identified set of planning and design tools. For diagnosis and strategic environmental impact assessment, the multicriteria analysis has been elaborated. The described procedure is applied to the City of Warsaw on the strategic level, by elaboration of the ranking of districts in terms of priority to take adaptation actions based on climatic threats, demographic vulnerability, and assessment of Warsaw Green Infrastructure potential. For further analysis at the planning and design stage, the district with the most urgent adaptation needs has been chosen, and within its borders, two neighborhoods (existing and planned one) with diagnosed ecological sensitivity were selected. Both case studies were analyzed in terms of environmental conditions, urban structure, and planning provisions. It enabled identification of existing natural adaptive potential and assessment of its use. As a result, propositions for enhancing neighborhood resilience to climate change were suggested.

scholarly journals Building Climate Resilient City through Multiple Scale Cooperative Planning: Experiences from Copenhagen

2021 ◽  
Vol 1203 (3) ◽  
pp. 032063
Author(s):  
Haiyun Xu ◽  
Li Liu ◽  
Peng Ding
Keyword(s):  
Public Participation ◽  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Stormwater Management ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Organizational Capacity ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Multiple Stakeholders ◽  
Key Words Climate Change

Abstract Copenhagen, as one of the well-known European green capitals, has dedicated efforts to implement a series of policies and take action on climate adaptation strategies from 2008 to 2020 to address the challenge brought by global warming. Climate adaptation in new urban planning for stormwater management opens up the dialogue in-between new possibilities for cooperation with multiple stakeholders and climate adaptation projects are developed in multilevel governance. However, in many cities, the organizational capacity of multiple stakeholders at the various level required to combine climate resilience with further sustainability targets may not be available. The paper focuses on the Copenhagen climate adaptation case, and further explores how the city strategically meta-govern the boundaries between the expert governed large-scale water management scheme against small-scale place-based bottom-up projects in collaboration with citizens and other placebased stakeholders. Furthermore, we summarize the experiences of building a climate adaptation city in Copenhagen, which refers to adequate data preparation in the early stage and rigorous planning, well- integration of stormwater management design & landscape design of urban space coordination of various stakeholder’s interests and public participation. Key words: Climate change adaptation; Urban stormwater management; Sustainable cities; Public participation; Green infrastructure

scholarly journals Climate Adaptation Finance in World Bank Economic Development Programs: The Challenges of Systemic Transformation via “Scaling Up”

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (19) ◽  
pp. 10553
Author(s):  
Todd A. Eisenstadt ◽  
Ifeoluwa Olawole ◽  
Michael A. Toman
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
Greenhouse Gas Mitigation ◽  
Low Income Countries ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
State Fragility ◽  
Recent Emergence

Worldwide only about four percent of the estimated $500 billion-plus in public and private climate finance in 2017 was destined for adaptation. However, institutions like the World Bank are positioning themselves for a transformation in adaptation finance, seeking to provide substantially more adaptation finance as distinct from financial support for greenhouse gas mitigation. This article explores the recent emergence of adaptation as a higher priority and how a longer-term time horizon is necessary if a transformation in climate change governance is to occur which places greater emphasis on sustainable development goals relating to improvement of circumstances of citizens in the most climate-vulnerable nations, mostly in the Global South. The article also considers the important debate in the climate change policy literature over the extent to which funds supporting adaptation are going to lower-income nations or people, as might be anticipated given the view that the poor are more vulnerable to the adverse impacts of climate change. Data linking World Bank project funding to climate change adaptation and mitigation, derived from a keyword-matching approach, show that from 2010 to 2018, the share of climate-change-related finance devoted to adaptation in World Bank projects increased considerably. The data indicate that adaptation funding tends to be directed more to more climate-vulnerable nations and those with greater state fragility, but not to low-income countries versus high-income countries. Implications are considered for how this change might be “scaled up” to achieve a transformational status.

scholarly journals Green Roofs and Greenpass

Buildings ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scharf ◽  
Kraus
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Thermal Comfort ◽  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Urban Climate ◽  
Green Roofs ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
Urban Energy Balance

The United Nations have identified climate change as the greatest threat to human life. As current research shows, urban areas are more vulnerable to climate change than rural areas. Numerous people are affected by climate change in their daily life, health and well-being. The need to react is undisputed and has led to numerous guidelines and directives for urban climate adaptation. Plants are commonly mentioned and recommended as one key to urban climate adaptation. Due to shading of open space and building surfaces, as well as evapotranspiration, plants reduce the energy load on the urban fabric and increase thermal comfort and climate resilience amongst many other ecosystem services. Plants, therefore, are described as green infrastructure (GI), because of the beneficial effects they provide. Extensive green roofs are often discussed regarding their impact on thermal comfort for pedestrians and physical properties of buildings. By means of Stadslab2050 project Elief Playhouse in Antwerp, Belgium, a single-story building in the courtyard of a perimeter block, the effects of different extensive green roof designs (A and B) on the microclimate, human comfort at ground and roof level, as well as building physics are analyzed and compared to the actual roofing (bitumen membrane) as the Status Quo variant. For the analyses and evaluation of the different designs the innovative Green Performance Assessment System (GREENPASS®) method has been chosen. The planning tool combines spatial and volumetric analyses with complex 3D microclimate simulations to calculate key performance indicators such as thermal comfort score, thermal storage score, thermal load score, run-off and carbon sequestration. Complementary maps and graphs are compiled. Overall, the chosen method allows to understand, compare and optimize project designs and performance. The results for the Elief Playhouse show that the implementation of green roofs serves a slight contribution to the urban energy balance but a huge impact on the building and humans. Variant B with entire greening performs better in all considered indicators, than the less greened design Variant A and the actual Status Quo. Variant B will probably bring a greater cost/benefit than Variant A and is thus recommended.

scholarly journals The Green Infrastructure in Cities as A Tool for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation: Slovakian and Polish Experiences

Atmosphere ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 552 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingrid Belčáková ◽  
Małgorzata Świąder ◽  
Małgorzata Bartyna-Zielińska
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Land Use Types ◽  
Quality Life ◽  
Adaptation And Mitigation

Climate change could be seen as a 21st century phenomenon. This topic has been taken up equally by professionals as well as the general public. Adaptation and mitigation actions are needed, especially in cities where the concentration of population and an increased demand for resources (e.g., water, food, land) are expected in the coming years. Already, 400 cities have been declared to be in a “climate emergency” state. There are no longer any doubts that current environmental state requires actions and solutions for both the alarming climate situation and urban quality life development. If such action is not going to be taken, the environmental state will deteriorate. One possible solution could be the use of green infrastructure. This research compares approaches to green areas and green infrastructure development in Bratislava (Slovakia) and Wrocław (Poland). A comparison was made for projects realized between 2013 and 2018—i.e., since the publication of the European Union (EU) Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change in 2013. The research presents an overview of delivered projects regarding land use. The overview, which is supported by a density map of implemented green projects, verifies whether the new greenery fits and fills in the existing natural areas. Secondly, the green projects were analyzed according to years and land use types using Tableau software. Moreover, the legislation of climate adaptation mechanisms and practical aspects of green infrastructure implementation are shown. Finally, actions concerning the greening of the cities were categorized into practical, educational, and participatory ones, and the potential of green infrastructure as a positive landscape, micro-climate, health, and aesthetic influence was examined.

scholarly journals Adapting flood management to climate change: comparing policy frames and governance practices in the Low Countries

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Crabbé ◽  
Mark Wiering ◽  
Duncan Liefferink
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Flood Management ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Policy Frames ◽  
Governance Practices ◽  
Governance Processes

Belgium and the Netherlands together form the Low Countries. Empirical research in Flanders (the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium) and the Netherlands proves that there are substantive differences in the organization of governance processes regarding flood management in response to climate change. This article answers the question of how Flanders and the Netherlands, confronted with universal challenges and dilemmas in the governance of adaptation to climate change – integration versus differentiation (multi-sector versus sector-based governance), the problem of scaling (multi-level governance) and the division of public and private responsibilities (multi-actor governance) – are designing and structuring their approaches. More specifically, we look at how differences in the framing of climate adaptation can explain why organizational practices differ. For this purpose, a distinction is made between diagnostic framing (what is the problem?), prognostic framing (what could be possible solutions?) and action framing (how to act?). By referring to existing policy frames, the article explains recent policy choices on climate change adaptation in flood management.

scholarly journals The potential of blue-Green infrastructure as a climate change adaptation strategy: a systematic literature review

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamer Almaaitah ◽  
Madison Appleby ◽  
Howard Rosenblat ◽  
Jennifer Drake ◽  
Darko Joksimovic
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Urban Heat Island ◽  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Stormwater Management ◽  
Computer Modelling ◽  
Green Roofs ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Heat Island ◽  
Urban Heat

Abstract Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI) consists of natural and semi-natural systems implemented to mitigate climate change impacts in urban areas, including elevated air temperatures and flooding. This study is a state-of-the-art review that presents recent research on BGI by identifying and critically evaluating published studies that considered urban heat island mitigation and stormwater management as potential benefits. Thirty-two records were included in the review, with the majority of studies published after 2015. Findings indicate that BGI effectively controls urban runoff and mitigates urban heat, with the literature being slightly more focused on stormwater management than urban heat island mitigation. Among BGI, the studies on blue- and blue-green roofs focused on one benefit at a time (i.e. thermal or hydrologic performance) and did not consider promoting multiple benefits simultaneously. Two-thirds of the selected studies were performed on a large urban scale, with computer modelling and sensor monitoring being the predominant assessment methods. Compared with typical Green Infrastructure (GI), and from a design perspective, many crucial questions on BGI performance, particularly on smaller urban scales, remain unanswered. Future research will have to continue to explore the performance of BGI, considering the identified gaps.

scholarly journals Sustentabilidad y gestión de riesgo. Respuesta, reparación y prevención frente a inundaciones desde un análisis de caso/Sustainability and risk management. Response, repair and prevention against floods from a case analysis

2018 ◽  
pp. 105-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cecilia Carrizo Sineiro ◽  
Yamila Maricel Ferreyra ◽  
Diego Astudillo ◽  
Silvina Soldá
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Risk Management ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Extreme Rainfall ◽  
Production Model ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Intergovernmental Panel ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
El Sistema ◽  
Private And Public

La provincia de Córdoba, constituye uno de los polos de desarrollo del modelo agropecuario basado en transgénicos-agrotóxicos-siembra directa-commodities implementado en Argentina. Está ubicada en la región para la que el Panel Intergubernamental sobre de Cambio Climático (IPCC) ha pronosticado hace más de 10 años la ocurrencia de precipitaciones extremas, consecuentes inundaciones y necesidades de adaptación específicas. El trabajo pretende problematizar los límites de la gestión del riesgo en dicho contexto a partir del análisis de un caso concreto, la ciudad de Jesús María frente a la inundación del año 2015. A tal fin, presentamos en detalle la sistematización de las acciones/comunicaciones de dos sistemas sociales urbanos identificados como claves, el Sistema Político Institucional y el de Información-Comunicación, en los tres momentos en que se analizan los desastres: respuesta, reparación y prevención. Nuestra observación, desde una perspectiva sistémica-comunicacional, aspira a aumentar la reflexividad social sobre un modelo de producción, dando cuenta de la complejidad de una gramática de la adaptación al cambio climático que, haciendo foco en las responsabilidades privadas y públicas y la defensa de los derechos humanos, la biodiversidad y la infraestructura pública y privada, supere respuestas tecnocráticas y prefigure una adaptación al cambio climático que haga eje en la sustentabilidad. Abstract The province of Córdoba is one of the poles of development of the agricultural model based on transgenic-agrotoxicos-direct seeding-commodities implemented in Argentina. It is located in the region for which the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has forecast more than 10 years ago the occurrence of extreme rainfall, consequent floods and specific adaptation needs. The work aims to problematize the limits of risk management in this context from the analysis of a specific case, the city of Jesus Maria after the flood of 2015. To this end, we present in detail the systematization of actions of two urban social systems identified as key, the Institutional Political System and the Information-Communication System, in the three moments in which disasters are analyzed: response, repair and prevention. Our observation, from a systemic-communicational perspective, aims to increase social reflexivity on a production model, accounting for the complexity of a grammar of adaptation to climate change, focusing on private and public responsibilities and the defense of human rights, biodiversity and public and private infrastructure, overcomes inefficient and technocratic responses and prefigures an adaptation to climate change that focuses on sustainability.

scholarly journals ClimateCafé: An Interdisciplinary Educational Tool for Sustainable Climate Adaptation and Lessons Learned

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 3694 ◽  
Author(s):  
Floris C. Boogaard ◽  
Guri Venvik ◽  
Rui L. Pedroso de Lima ◽  
Ana C. Cassanti ◽  
Allard H. Roest ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Field Education ◽  
Infiltration Capacity ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
German Philosopher

ClimateCafé is a field education concept involving different fields of science and practice for capacity building in climate change adaptation. This concept is applied on the eco-city of Augustenborg in Malmö, Sweden, where Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) were implemented in 1998. ClimateCafé Malmö evaluated these NBS with 20 young professionals from nine nationalities and seven disciplines with a variety of practical tools. In two days, 175 NBS were mapped and categorised in Malmö. Results show that the selected green infrastructure have a satisfactory infiltration capacity and low values of potential toxic element pollutants after 20 years in operation. The question “Is capacity building achieved by interdisciplinary field experience related to climate change adaptation?” was answered by interviews, collecting data of water quality, pollution, NBS and heat stress mapping, and measuring infiltration rates, followed by discussion. The interdisciplinary workshops with practical tools provide a tangible value to the participants and are needed to advance sustainability efforts. Long term lessons learnt from Augustenborg will help stormwater managers within planning of NBS. Lessons learned from this ClimateCafé will improve capacity building on climate change adaptation in the future. This paper offers a method and results to prove the German philosopher Friedrich Hegel wrong when he opined that “we learn from history that we do not learn from history.”

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