The mitigation–adaptation dichotomy and the role of spatial planning

Biesbroek, Robbert; Swart, Rob; Knaap, W.G.M. van der

doi:10.1016/j.habitatint.2008.10.001

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“…In turn, the example of Italy shows the contrary: a national framework might not be required to stimulate climate change strategy development. Overlaps of national, regional and city climate policies can exist as central government policies influence the selection of mitigation and adaptation measures within cities (Biesbroek et al, 2009;Bulkeley and Kern, 2006). However, we also provided evidence that the lack of national leadership can lead to a more active membership in climate change networks.…”

Section: Results Of the National Climate Policies And Local Climate Cmentioning

confidence: 72%

“…for urban sprawl and its relationship to mitigation, or for the catchment scale and corresponding flood risk management with respect to adaptation (Biesbroek et al, 2009;Leck and Simon, 2013).…”

Section: Results Of the National Climate Policies And Local Climate Cmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Integrating adaptation issues into urban fabrics is still a challenge and national strategies identify policies and planning instruments pivotal to its integration (Biesbroek et al, 2009;Reckien et al, 2014a). The recently published European Adaptation Strategy (European Commission, 2013) provides evidence that there was a scarcity of EU initiatives for local adaptation which resulted in the current sparseness of cities considering adaptation issues .…”

Section: Policies and Strategies: From National To Local Levelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is assumed that adaptation has to be, and mostly is, undertaken by local authorities, as this is where impacts are experienced and interdependencies are more easily recognised (Biesbroek et al, 2009;European Commission, 2014;Measham et al, 2011). However, adaptation is not limited to local action (Archie et al, 2014): the regional extent of climate impacts and cross-sectoral (i.e.…”

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National climate policies across Europe and their impacts on cities strategies

Heidrich

Reckien

Olazabal

et al. 2016

Journal of Environmental Management

152

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National climate policies across Europe and their impacts on cities strategies ABSTRACTGlobally, efforts are underway to reduce anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and to adapt to climate change impacts at the local level. However, there is a poor understanding of the relationship between city strategies on climate change mitigation and adaptation and the relevant policies at national and European level. This paper describes a comparative study and evaluation of cross-national policy.It reports the findings of studying the climate change strategies or plans from 200 European cities from Austria, Belgium, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom. The study highlights the shared responsibility of global, European, national, regional and city policies. An interpretation and illustration of the influences from international and national networks and policy makers in stimulating the development of local strategies and actions is proposed. It was found that there is no archetypical way of planning for climate change, and multiple interests and motivations are inevitable. Our research warrants the need for a multi-scalar approach to climate policy in the future, mainly ensuring sufficient capacity and resource to enable local authorities to plan and respond to their specific climate change agenda for maximising the management potentials for translating environmental challenges into opportunities

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Section: Results Of the National Climate Policies And Local Climate Cmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Policies and Strategies: From National To Local Levelsmentioning

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Section: Policies and Strategies: From National To Local Levelsmentioning

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National climate policies across Europe and their impacts on cities strategies

Heidrich

Reckien

Olazabal

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Journal of Environmental Management

152

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“…Those responses can be generally called as adaptations (Biesbroek, Swart, & Van Der Knaap, 2009;Smit & Wandel, 2006). Current approaches are reactive and limited to individual responses based on the stakeholders' responses such as sounding the threat of floods and building temporary mezzanine (they call it as antru).…”

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Adaptations Assessment on the Impacts of Flooding Under Current Condition and Climate Change Scenario, Case Study: Centini Village, Indonesia

2017

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Reducing community vulnerability to flooding is increasingly important given predicted intensive flood events in many parts of the world. We built a community vulnerability model to explore the effectiveness of a range of proactive and reactive adaptations to reduce community vulnerability to flood. The model consists of floods, victims, housings, responses, savings, expenditure and income sub models. We explore the robustness of adaptations under current conditions and under a range of future climate change scenarios. We present results of this model for a case study of Centini Village in Lamongan Municipality, Indonesia, which is highly vulnerable to the impacts of annual small-scale and infrequent extreme floods. We compare 11 proactive adaptations using indicators of victims, damage/losses and recovery process to reflect the level of vulnerability. We find that reforestation and flood infrastructure redevelopment are the most effective proactive adaptations for minimising vulnerability to flood under current condition. Under climate change scenario, the floods are predicted to increase 17% on the average and 5% on the maximum measurements. The increasing floods result reforestation is the only effective adaptations in the future under climate change scenario.

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Vulnerability, climate laws, and adaptation in the Middle East and North Africa

Maboudi,

D'Amico

2024

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Laws aimed at tackling climate change problems have grown significantly in the last two decades. Following this global trend and under pressure from international institutions and lenders, both rich, oil exporting (i.e., major greenhouse gas [GHG] emitters) and poor, non‐oil rich (i.e., mostly vulnerable nations with lower shares of emission) states in the Middle East and North Africa have hastened to adopt new laws and regulations to mitigate and/or adapt to climate change. The question remains, however, does the adoption of these laws have any measurable impact on these nations' climate change performance? That is, to what degree do these laws have an impact on greenhouse gas emissions or adaptation capacity and readiness? Utilizing a panel data of 660 country‐year observations (22 countries over 30 years), our cross‐national statistical analysis shows that while climate change laws seem to have an impact on GHG emissions, they have so far failed to boost these nations' adaptation capacity. Our case study shows that oil politics and basic development objectives seem to be the key to this failure.

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The mitigation–adaptation dichotomy and the role of spatial planning

Cited by 288 publications

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National climate policies across Europe and their impacts on cities strategies

National climate policies across Europe and their impacts on cities strategies

Adaptations Assessment on the Impacts of Flooding Under Current Condition and Climate Change Scenario, Case Study: Centini Village, Indonesia

Vulnerability, climate laws, and adaptation in the Middle East and North Africa

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