Climate Change Impacts on Urban Planning in the Cities

Shalaby, Heidi Ahmed; Aboelnaga, Somaya

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3162375

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“…Noxious gases such as carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and nitrogen are components of motor vehicle emissions and by-products of industrial activities. PM 2.5, a type of particulate matter, is 30 times thinner than a human hair [22]. If inhaled, it can penetrate deep into the lungs tissue and cause serious health problems.…”

Section: Impact Of Pollution On Urban Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Increase in temperature and humidity due to climate change can affect the frequency and severity of extreme events, the spread of vectorborne diseases, the intensity of heat waves and contribute to sea-level rise; all of which have direct and indirect effects on human health and well-being in cities [7]. Moreover, as a result of these variables, lower socioeconomic groups in metropolitan areas are disproportionately sensitive to air pollution, noise, water scarcity and extreme events [8]. Many problems are being caused by global climate change in today's urban and rural environments which has an immense impact on city stakeholders' behaviour.…”

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Urban Resiliency towards Climate Change

Debangshi

Ghosh

Tiwari

et al. 2022

IJECC

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India will experience massive urbanization in the coming decades, with the country's urban population expected to double by 2050. Climate change is a major threat to urban systems all over the world. Its consequences are expected to worsen over the next few decades. The consequences of climate changes are more in urban areas than rural due to rapid urbanization, health issue, decreasing water level and industrialization etc. Climate change consequences such as increased rainfall intensity, storm surges, temperature fluctuation and flooding are expected to have a global impact on urban health, sustainability, coastal areas, urban infrastructure, migrants, ecosystems and urban water use. On the other hand, humanity able to take collective action to mitigate the severity of these impacts. Mitigation and adaptation strategies, such as climate resilient agriculture, rooftop farming, extreme weather mitigation, resilient water use and so on, will almost certainly be required to deal with these effects. It is encouraging to note that urban planning has the potential to play a key role in developing and implementing adaptive responses in urban systems. The benefit of urban planning is sustainable and required some urban planning regimes around the world which include, plan-making, stakeholder engagement, development management and design standards to make a better and greener urban ecosystem.

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Section: Impact Of Pollution On Urban Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban Resiliency towards Climate Change

Debangshi

Ghosh

Tiwari

et al. 2022

IJECC

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“…It is considered to be a framework that plays a crucial role in linking mitigation and adaptation to climate change [16,17], as well as reconciling various elements of built-up space and environment in which interventions are required [18]. The latest prognoses of climate change trends indicate that it will have serious negative impacts on humanity and consequently create challenges in the field of spatial planning, particularly in aspects of land use regulation, urban design, planning engineering measures, and adaptation/mitigation infrastructure which play a crucial role in coping with future challenges [11,19,20].…”

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Visualising the Relevance of Climate Change for Spatial Planning by the Example of Serbia

Pantić,

Maričić,

Milijić

2024

Applied Sciences

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After decades of rising awareness and undertaken actions, climate change is still one of several focal global challenges. Additionally, the latest report by researchers at the International Panel for Climate Change indicates that the crisis has deepened. With its comprehensive nature, spatial planning is one of the management tools responsible for dealing with climate change and combating its effects. Land use definition is the foundation on which we build mitigation and adaptation systems. It is a complex process that involves (or should involve) a range of stakeholders—experts, politicians, the civil sector, and citizens—in which the clear transmission of messages to stakeholders regarding the state of the art and planned actions is significant. The use of visualisation tools is one of the important ways to achieve this. This research aims to present a set of visualisation tools, applying them in analysis and decision making in the field of spatial planning with regard to climate change. We combined content analysis, colour-graded classification, and the spider method applied to the example of Serbia. The results showed that application of the suggested visualisation methods in combination with regular planning tools (maps) facilitates an understanding of the problem and its presentation to other stakeholders. In the case of Serbia, visualisation tools have shown that adaptation measures prevail over mitigation measures and that the effects of climate change addressed in spatial-planning documents do not significantly match the most challenging effects as perceived from the citizens’ perspective. These are aspects that should be corrected in the next generation of planning documents. The suggested visualisation tools are replicable, with slight adjustments to a specific case, to any other region in the world.

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