Resilience of coastal cities with accumulating climate-change coupled threats; depends on the cooperation of government, experts and the citizens

Sanders, Fred; Oliveira, Ana Cláudia de

doi:10.1088/1755-1315/588/3/032037

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

2020

DOI: 10.1088/1755-1315/588/3/032037

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Resilience of coastal cities with accumulating climate-change coupled threats; depends on the cooperation of government, experts and the citizens

Fred Sanders

Ana Cláudia de Oliveira

Abstract: Most cities in the world are coastal cities, especially facing accumulating climate-change coupled threats. These cities are precisely the ones that are growing the fastest, what makes this development a risk for millions of people in our world. These accumulating threats happen when seawater-level rise, clustered heavy rainfall, and meltwater river-level rise fall occur simultaneously. Within the H2020 Marie Curie ‘SOS Climate Waterfront’ 2019-2021 research program, researchers exchanged between coastal citie… Show more

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“…Research by Fred Sanders shows that for sustainable initiatives, the interaction between government, experts, and citizens, whether or not they are formally organized, determines the results. We learn from this research that the sustainable energy transition is an enormous operation where good preparation is decisive for the success that can be achieved (Sanders & de Oliveira, 2020). For this, it is necessary to be open to the knowledge of others, which formed the basis for this thematic issue.…”

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Challenges of Energy Renovation

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One of the most complex and urgent challenges in the energy transition is the large-scale refurbishment of the existing housing stock in the built environment. In order to comply with the goals of the Paris convention, the aim is to live “energy-neutral,” that is, a dwelling should produce as much sustainable energy as it consumes on a yearly basis. This means that millions of existing houses need to undergo a radical energy retrofit. In the next 30 years, all dwellings should be upgraded to nearly zero-energy buildings, which is a challenge to accomplish for a reasonable price. Across the EU, many projects have developed successful approaches to the improvement of building technologies and processes, as well a better involvement of citizens. It is important to compare and contrast such approaches and disseminate lessons learned. In practice, it is crucial to raise the level of participation of inhabitants in neighborhood renovation activities. Therefore, the central question of this issue is: How can we increase the involvement of tenants and homeowners into this radical energy renovation?

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Identifying local climate change measures and blockades in a tested DBCA-diagram to stimulate learning between cities

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Most of the world's cities are coastal, and most of them face the increasing threats associated with climate change. Coastal cities are also growing the fastest, which makes them a risk for millions of people. This increasing threat occurs when sea level rises, compounded by heavy rainfall and high river levels occurring simultaneously (Sanders 2020a). While measures to address climate change in coastal cities are being taken, or are in preparation and/or planning, along with measures for mitigation and adaptation (Sanders & Oliveira 2020), these measures all too often run into blockages, sometimes physical, but often also due to local special circumstances or a lack of financial resources. These are the results of the H2020 Marie Curie 'SOS Climate Waterfront' 2019-2023 research project, in which researchers exchanged their observations on European coastal cities. To make their insights available to other cities in the EU and beyond, the diagram of the 2020 study has been expanded, in line with the recommendations of this study. Observed blockages have also been added to the diagram concerning heritage protection, lack of finances, or opposition from the commons. Subsequently, the diagram was worked out for each of the six cities of the 'SOS Climate Waterfront' project to investigate whether they can be matched on the basis of their diagrams in order to learn from each other. As the research shows, many of the blockages could have been identified earlier in order to lift them in time, so that well-prepared measures could have been implemented. Only then can a city and its citizens become resilient.

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Matching cities by their climate change measures and blockages profile for mutual-learning.

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More and more cities are working on climate resilience by adding climate adaptive measures to their mitigation programs, but choices must be made and barriers must be overcome, as shown by the extensive research in this area, including our own previously conducted exploratory research (Sanders & Oliveira, 2020). The motivation for new follow-up research has been to develop an instrument with which cities can compare each other’s climate programs, to find the right city partner to start a process of joint learning from each other. After studying current research classifying cities' climate adaptive measures, implemented or in planning, most research is into processes to help cities find the right measures, it has been concluded that the level of detail on which this research generally focuses is too detailed to help cities comparing to find their matching city partner. That is why it was ultimately decided to extent our own diagram from the aforementioned exploratory research, which is less abstract, with the aim of providing cities with this improved instrument. It should be noted that given the higher level of detail, we should speak of blockages rather than barriers. The recent results of the H2020 Marie Curie 'SOS Climate Waterfront' study were used to test this improved diagram, as data on climate adaptive measures from six European coastal cities recently became available. A test diagram was then generated for each of these cities and matching has been selected to evaluate the diagram, in order to make a well-functioning instrument available. The final conclusion is that the diagram provides a recognizable matching for the six SOS cities, but that improvement of the diagram is recommended during further use.

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Resilience of coastal cities with accumulating climate-change coupled threats; depends on the cooperation of government, experts and the citizens

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Challenges of Energy Renovation

Challenges of Energy Renovation

Identifying local climate change measures and blockades in a tested DBCA-diagram to stimulate learning between cities

Matching cities by their climate change measures and blockages profile for mutual-learning.

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