Towards climate services for European cities: Lessons learnt from the Copernicus project Urban SIS

Gidhagen, Lars; Olsson, Jonas; Amorim, Jorge Humberto; Asker, Christian; Belušić, Danijel; Carvalho, Ana Cristina; Engardt, Magnuz; Hundecha, Yeshewatesfa; Körnich, Heiner; Lind, Petter; Lindstedt, David; Olsson, Esbjörn; Rosberg, Jörgen; Segersson, David; Strömbäck, Lena

doi:10.1016/j.uclim.2019.100549

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“…For this purpose, a dynamic downscaling weather forecast process (Amorim et al, 2020;Gidhagen et al, 2020) was applied to estimate future summer temperatures over Stockholm, based on the development plans for 2030 and 2050. These two scenarios were defined by SMHI in cooperation with representatives from the Municipality.…”

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Assessing the Quality of Knowledge for Adaptation–Experiences From Co-designing Climate Services in Sweden

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Adaptation to climate change is becoming more urgent, but the wealth of knowledge that informs adaptation planning and decision-making is not used to its full potential. Top-down approaches to knowledge production are identified as one important reason for the gap between science and practice and are criticized for not meeting the needs of intended users. In response to this challenge, there is a growing interest in the creation of user-oriented and actionable climate services to support adaptation. At the same time, recent research suggests that greater efforts are needed to evaluate the effectiveness of knowledge co-production processes and the best criteria by which to gauge the quality of knowledge outcomes, while also considering different stakeholder perspectives. This paper explores these issues through a critical assessment of the quality of knowledge for adaptation generated from a climate services co-design process in two case studies in Sweden. The study draws on experiences from a 5-year research collaboration in which natural and social science researchers, together with local stakeholders, co-designed climate services to support climate adaptation planning and decision-making. The well-established knowledge quality criteria of credibility, legitimacy, saliency, usability, and usefulness remain relevant, but are not sufficient to capture factors relating to whether and how the knowledge actually is applied by climate change adaptation planners and decision-makers. We observe that case-specific circumstances beyond the scope of the co-design process, including the decision-making context as well as non-tangible outcomes, also play crucial roles that should be accounted for in the knowledge assessment processes.

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“…The systems process data and provide users with information via a set of services, which include six thematic fields: land, sea, atmosphere, climate change, emergency control and safety. The service offers key indicators of climate change measurements to support European policy and develops specialized climatic data management for city regions [18]. Joint Program 'Urban Europe" is coordinating investigations in member-states and finances investigations of climate change in some definite cities.…”

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“…Researchers from different countries are putting this opinion forth meaning cooperation and consensus between representatives from different continents: both Europe and Asia. In order to predict the consequences of climate change it's necessary to constantly monitor changes and set a forecast for the future [6]. A group of scientists from Sweden together with a climatic service Urban SIS have offered historical and modelled future data reduced to the resolution 1 km x 1 km for separate European cities.…”

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Adaptation of Cities to Climate Change (Best Practices Review)

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The authors of the article are raising current issues related to climate change and global warming. Not all the countries are responding to these processes the same way and undertake joint complex efforts to mitigate climate change impacts. The authors have analyzed the existing legislations and actions for adaptation to climate change in the EU and separate European countries. “Covenant of Mayors”, ADAPT program, Joint Programming Initiative Urban Europe are considered in detail. Informational and awareness-raising work of state and educational entities is one of the main necessary actions to mitigate climate change negative impacts. The article presents the results of the opinion poll made by the European Social Survey, “Russian Public Opinion Research Center” (JSC “VCIOM”) and the investigations of German State Development Bank KfW on how citizens perceive climate change processes, their sense of personal responsibility and personal reaction. Also a brief review of educational programs of builders, urban developers and architects in European and Russian universities is added to the article. The conclusion of the authors is as such: it is necessary to intensify legislative measures for adaptation of cities to climate change, the stronger control of the amount of carbon dioxide emissions and coordinated actions in one region are needed. It is necessary to pay careful attention to climatic education of the students – future builders and urban developers.

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“…People who professionally deal with urban planning, maintaining humanitarian balance of biotechnosphere should become the main acting persons. First of all these are people creating regulatory documents for comfortable living environment who are managing city development, specialists in city and municipal management, urban planners and people who are getting such education at the moment [12,13].…”

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Eco-anthropocentric approach in urban planning: European and Russian experience

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2020

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The article presents an idea that social consciousness should be changed in order to create humanized ecological city environment. This consciousness may be formed being influenced by external conditions: educational activities on creating such environment. The author analyses eco-anthropocentric approach to city territories development in Russia and European countries. Now that ecological problems are becoming more acute and the climate is changing, this approach is the only possible for creation of comfortable and safe environment. This is the way to preserve biosphere for the next generations too. The article observes the legislation in Russia, Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands in terms of obligatory measures to preserve the environment and people’s participation in decision-making. The author has conducted sociological studies using questionnaire, focus-groups and interview to find out the respondents’ attitude to actions of city government on developing the territories as well as the respondents’ recommendations on organizing public hearings concerning city problems. City planners – scientists from research institutes and Master students from Moscow State University of Civil Engineering were the respondents. The author’s conclusion is: the legislations of the observed European countries are more developed in terms of environmental protection and concern for people’s well-being as compared to Russia. Russia doesn’t have separate law on climatic changes. The sociological studies show critical attitude of Russian people to laws and governmental actions, though they haven’t showed high activity and determination to act, which means the social consciousness hasn’t yet become the base for transformations.

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Towards climate services for European cities: Lessons learnt from the Copernicus project Urban SIS

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Assessing the Quality of Knowledge for Adaptation–Experiences From Co-designing Climate Services in Sweden

Assessing the Quality of Knowledge for Adaptation–Experiences From Co-designing Climate Services in Sweden

Adaptation of Cities to Climate Change (Best Practices Review)

Eco-anthropocentric approach in urban planning: European and Russian experience

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