Adaptation of Urban Regions of the Baltic Sea Coast to Climate Change: Challenges and Approaches

Deppisch, Sonja; Albers, Miriam; Selinger, Julika

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-0400-8_13

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“…This varies greatly at the regional level within the Nordic countries (Juhola et al 2012b). Knowledge facilitated by links with universities and research projects funded by the EU plays an important part in enabling adaptation at the sub-national level, for example in Germany (Frommer 2001), Finland (Westerhoff and Juhola 2010) and Sweden (Deppisch et al 2011). Although this has enabled some regions to pursue adaptation strategies, the uncertainty of climate change impacts has slowed overall action on adaptation (Storbjörk 2007;Carter 2011).…”

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Socio-economic Impacts—Urban Complexes

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Regional Climate Studies

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This chapter examines observed and potential future climate change impacts on socioeconomic fields concerning urban complexes in the Baltic Sea basin. This is based on the literature review that focused mainly on English publications on climate change impacts, but included some publications in other languages on adaptation. In the Baltic Sea basin, there appears to be an imbalance between cities and towns that have been well studied with reference to climate change impacts, and cities or even regions for which there is hardly any published literature. For those publications that do exist, most concern the impact of a specific climate change effect (temperature rise, extreme events, sea-level rise) on a particular socioeconomic field of an urban complex. The results of the literature review indicate that urban complexes in the Baltic Sea catchment are likely to experience climate change impacts within wide-ranging contexts: from urban services and technical infrastructure, to buildings and settlement structures and to the urban economy or population. Impacts will differ depending on the location of the urban complex: northern versus southern and coastal versus inland. IntroductionThis chapter examines observed and potential future climate change impacts on socio-economic fields concerning urban complexes. Urban complexes are human-dominated settlements with relatively higher population density than rural settlements. The term comprises cities and towns. Urban complexes are further characterised by high concentrations of buildings and built-up areas with consequent soil sealing, high concentrations of people and infrastructure as well as specific economic and cultural roles and activities. These factors render urban complexes particularly vulnerable to climate change impacts (Hunt and Watkiss 2011). As every urban complex is characterised by a specific mix of social, ecological and economic interdependencies and its own settlement and building structure, it is difficult to generalise on scientific findings concerning urban complexes. Moreover, in the Baltic Sea basin, there seems to be an imbalance between cities and towns that have been well studied with reference to climate change impacts, and cities or even regions for which there is hardly any published literature. For those publications that do exist, most concern the impact of a specific climate change effect (temperature rise, extreme events, sea-level rise) on a particular socioeconomic field of an urban complex. Systematic case studies are available but are mostly on the impacts of climate on human health (Analitis et al.

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