scholarly journals Integrating Sustainable Stormwater Management in Urban Planning: Ways Forward towards Institutional Change and Collaborative Action

Water ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Bohman ◽  
Erik Glaas ◽  
Martin Karlson
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Institutional Change ◽  
Stormwater Management ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Urban Stormwater Management ◽  
Collaborative Action ◽  
Planning Processes ◽  
Sustainable Stormwater Management ◽  
New Strategies

Climate change impacts, ageing infrastructure and the increasing imperviousness of cities all raise enormous challenges to and call for new ways of planning for sustainable urban stormwater management. Especially, closer collaboration among a diverse set of actors involved has been pointed to as critical to enable the development of holistic and flexible approaches. However, the shift towards inclusive forms of planning has been slow, and characterized by technical and institutional lock-ins. Against this background, this study scrutinizes the challenges and developments perceived as central for improving stormwater planning, and analyzes how formal and informal institutional change could contribute to enhancing sustainability in this sector. Building on an analysis of data from workshops, interviews and a survey with Swedish planners and water managers, we suggest new strategies for integrating stormwater concerns into planning processes, overcoming silo structures, fostering cocreation cultures, and securing the continuation and implementation of stormwater management through various planning stages.

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.

Climate change vulnerability and adaptation in the managed Canadian boreal forest

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 256-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvie Gauthier ◽  
Pierre Bernier ◽  
Philip J. Burton ◽  
Jason Edwards ◽  
Kendra Isaac ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Management System ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Managed Forests ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
Planning Processes ◽  
Canadian Boreal Forest ◽  
Potential Climate Change

Climate change is affecting Canada’s boreal zone, which includes most of the country’s managed forests. The impacts of climate change in this zone are expected to be pervasive and will require adaptation of Canada’s forest management system. This paper reviews potential climate change adaptation actions and strategies for the forest management system, considering current and projected climate change impacts and their related vulnerabilities. These impacts and vulnerabilities include regional increases in disturbance rates, regional changes in forest productivity, increased variability in timber supply, decreased socioeconomic resilience, and increased severity of safety and health issues for forest communities. Potential climate change adaptation actions of the forest management system are categorized as those that reduce nonclimatic stressors, those that reduce sensitivity to climate change, or those that maintain or enhance adaptive capacity in the biophysical and human subsystems of the forest management system. Efficient adaptation of the forest management system will revolve around the inclusion of risk management in planning processes, the selection of robust, diversified, and no-regret adaptation actions, and the adoption of an adaptive management framework. Monitoring is highlighted as a no-regret action that is central to the implementation of adaptive forest management.

Impacts and Adaptation of Climate Change on Urban Economic System: A Perspective from the Urban Planning

2012 ◽  
Vol 174-177 ◽  
pp. 2270-2277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Qiang Wei ◽  
Yi Ping Fang
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Economics ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Heat Island ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation ◽  
Island Effect ◽  
System A ◽  
The Face ◽  
Economic Developments

Climate change has a significant impact on the environment and is expected to increase the frequency and intensity of nature disaster and create new hazards (e.g., rise in sea level). As densely populated and resource-intensive regions, cities will experience the enhanced heat island effect, flooding or water scarcity as a result of extremes in rainfall, and severe storms may devastate entire settlements. In the face of a projected rise in the frequency and severity of nature disasters due to socio-economic developments and climate change the question arises of how to adapt to and ameliorate impacts of natural disasters. This paper provides some insights into this subject from an urban planning perspective and takes a review on the aspects of climate change impacts on urban economics, based on the practices of mitigation and adaptation experiences, some strategies of adaptation are provided and discussed at last.

scholarly journals Embalses de retención y canales verdes: herramientas para el control de inundaciones y la planificación urbana. Caso de estudio: municipio de Turbaco, Bolívar

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 108-119
Author(s):  
Milton Guerrero Pájaro
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Rapid Growth ◽  
Stormwater Management ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Storm Drainage ◽  
New Challenges

Resumen: La rapidez en el crecimiento de nuestras ciudades y municipios, y el aumento vertiginoso en la demanda de suelo urbanizable, ha originado la impermeabilización del suelo urbanizado, lo que ha producido un aumento en los caudales de escorrentía. Por otro lado, el cambio climático impone nuevos desafíos en materia de gestión del drenaje pluvial para nuestras ciudades y municipios. El municipio de Turbaco vive una problemática en materia de drenaje pluvial, por causa del aumento en la demanda de suelo urbanizable y por la impermeabilización del suelo urbanizado. Los embalses de retención y las canales verdes surgen como una alternativa para la gestión de las aguas pluviales. Estos sistemas son de fácil adaptación al medio y son soluciones que van en favor del medio ambiente, al tiempo que constituyen parte del paisaje urbano. ___Palabras clave: Inundaciones, embalses, canales verdes, análisis hidrológico, planificación urbana. ___Abstract: The rapid growth of our cities and municipalities, and the rapid increase in the demand for urbanizable land, has led to the waterproofing of urbanized land, which has led to an increase in runoff flows. On the other hand, climate change imposes new challenges in the management of storm drainage for our cities and municipalities. The municipality of Turbaco lives a problem in the matter of rainwater drainage, due to the increase in the demand of urbanizable land and the waterproofing of the urbanized land. Retention reservoirs and green channels emerge as an alternative to stormwater management. These systems are easy to adapt to the environment and are solutions that are in favor of the environment, while being part of the urban landscape. ___Keywords: Floods, reservoirs, green channels, hydrological analysis, urban planning. ___Recibido: 13 abril 2016. Aceptado: 19 de mayo de 2016.

scholarly journals A Framework for Integration of Smart and Sustainable Energy Systems in Urban Planning Processes of Low-Income Developing Countries: Afghanistan Case

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (15) ◽  
pp. 8428
Author(s):  
Najib Rahman Sabory ◽  
Tomonobu Senjyu ◽  
Mir Sayed Shah Danish ◽  
Mikaeel Ahmadi ◽  
Hameedullah Zaheb ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Sustainable Energy ◽  
National Level ◽  
Energy Systems ◽  
Growth Enhancement ◽  
Smart Energy Systems ◽  
Planning Processes

Population growth and city expansion in developing countries require traditional urban planning practices to be transformed in order to tackle climate change and follow Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agendas. Almost every expert in the urban sector believes that future cities should be sustainable, smart, and environmentally friendly, where energy is one of the most critical factors to achieve these goals. They also agree that smart and sustainable energy provision for cities requires a comprehensive and responsive legal and policy framework to be in place at the national level. However, this research’s findings reveal a lack of such frameworks for this group of countries. Considering the challenges and unique nature of Low-Income-Developing (LID) countries, there should be a framework based on the realities in these countries. In this research, key challenges of urban and energy sectors of LID countries, specifically Afghanistan, are identified, and a framework for the integration of sustainable and smart energy in the urban planning processes for LID countries is proposed. To make it easily replicable and adaptable for LID countries, the proposed framework is studied and analyzed around Afghanistan’s urban and energy sectors. This is one of the few frameworks of its kind for LID economies to the best of the authors’ knowledge. This framework lays a solid foundation for sustainable and smart energy integration in the urban planning process of developing countries. This study highlights that sustainable and smart energy systems could ensure climate change mitigation and economic growth enhancement but require close cross-sectoral coordination and policy maker’s commitments and involvement. This research will help many existing and emerging cities in the LID countries’ worldwide use and benefit from the proposed framework in their urban planning processes. It also enables policymakers, urban planners and designers, municipalities leadership, and other stakeholders of the urban, energy, and environment sectors to work together and make smart and rational decisions for the future of their cities and lead them towards smart and sustainable cities.

scholarly journals Promoting the Use of Public Areas for Sustainable Stormwater Management in Cities with Mediterranean Climate

Proceedings ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (11) ◽  
pp. 632
Author(s):  
Georgia Priari
Keyword(s):  
Stormwater Management ◽  
Mediterranean Climate ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Urban Drainage ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Urban Stormwater Management ◽  
Public Areas ◽  
Management Techniques ◽  
Sustainable Stormwater Management

The aim of this work is to identify and present small scale sustainable urban stormwater management techniques that can be implemented by local authorities into public spaces. We present areas that bioretention and other Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SuDS) can be adopted, causing the transformation of public areas into multifunctional spaces.

scholarly journals Towards Intergenerational Equity: Analysis of Youth Engagement Strategies in Climate Action Planning in Mzuzu, Malawi

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 309-320
Author(s):  
Josephine Marion Zimba ◽  
Brian Simbeye ◽  
Stanley Chilunga Chirwa
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Stakeholder Engagement ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Action Planning ◽  
Youth Engagement ◽  
Engagement Strategies ◽  
Planning Processes ◽  
The City

Globally, meaningful youth participation in planning processes aimed at dealing with climate change impacts has been advocated for sustainability purposes. Article 6 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change requires parties to ensure there is public participation in addressing climate change, its effects, and the development of responses. In the city of Mzuzu, Malawi, local community members have been involved in planning processes at different planning levels but more intensively at the community level. Despite this approach receiving much attention, minimal consideration has been put on which societal groups are to be engaged directly, with youths being excluded to a large extent, even though about 49% of the population in Malawi is aged between 10 and 34 years. This article, therefore, seeks to foreground how current stakeholder engagement strategies in climate change planning marginalise the youth. To do this, this article critically reviews current stakeholder engagement strategies and assesses the extent to which youth are involved in the planning processes in Mzuzu City. It further assesses the factors affecting youth involvement in the planning process and subsequently recommends how stakeholder engagement strategies can be designed and implemented to ensure effective youth engagement in climate change planning processes in the city.

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