Towards the Development of an Integrated Sustainability and Resilience Benefits Assessment Framework of Urban Green Growth Interventions

Grafakos, Stelios; Gianoli, Alberto; Tsatsou, Alexandra

doi:10.3390/su8050461

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“…Mitigation and adaptation actions (or portfolios of actions) are assessed against their costs and benefits or by multiple objectives and criteria, whereas trade-offs between different objectives can be also identified and assessed, a process often called prioritisation (Grafakos et al 2018). To conduct these, economics-based approaches, including cost-benefit analysis and cost-effectiveness analysis can be applied (Cartwright et al 2013;Gouldson et al 2015), as well as integrated approaches such as multi-criteria analysis and integrated modelling (Haque et al 2011;Walsh et al 2013;Scrieuciu et al 2014;Grafakos et al 2016) and sectoral approaches (Charoenkit and Kumar 2014).…”

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Analytical framework to evaluate the level of integration of climate adaptation and mitigation in cities

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Reduction of carbon emissions and climate-resilience in cities are becoming important objectives to be achieved in order to ensure sustainable urban development pathways. Traditionally, cities have treated climate mitigation and adaptation strategies in isolation, without addressing their potential synergies, conflicts or trade-offs. Recent studies have shown that this can lead to inefficiencies in urban planning, conflicting policy objectives and lost opportunities for synergistic actions. However, in the last few years, we have observed that cities are increasingly moving towards addressing both mitigation and adaptation in urban planning. Cities need to pay particular attention and understand the rationale of both policy objectives whilst considering the integration of the two policies in urban planning and decision-making. This study presents an analytical framework to evaluate the level of integration of climate mitigation and adaptation in cities' local climate action plans. We tested this framework in nine selected major cities, representatives from all inhabited continents, which are frontrunners in climate action both in their regions and globally. We applied the framework in order to evaluate the level of mitigation and adaptation integration in cities' CCAPs and further explored the different types of mitigation-adaptation interrelationships that have been considered. A scoring system was also devised in order to allow comparing and ranking of the different CCAPs for their level of integration of adaptation and mitigation. The paper draws good practices to support cities in developing climate change action plans in an integrated way.

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“…In particular, cost-related methods such as cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analyses could be extended to include and analyse interactions of adaptation and mitigation actions. Multicriteria evaluation and nexus studies could be also employed to quantify Ad/Mit interactions (Grafakos et al 2016;Valek et al 2017).…”

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“…15 Grafakos et al (2016) argue that sustainability and resilience are "two intertwined concepts." 16 The authors present an assessment methodology for resilience and sustainability.…”

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Defining the resilience dividend: accounting for co-benefits of resilience planning

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This report presents the concept of the resilience dividend as a useful metric for community resilience planning. The report suggests defining the resilience dividend as the net co-benefit (or co-cost) of investing in enhanced resilience, in the absence of a disruptive incident. In order for this definition to be useful, the report reviews literature on co-benefits. The main lessons from this review are that: (1) there is no consensus on the use of the meaning of cobenefit; (2) much of the literature on co-benefits is focused on climate change; and (3) there exist opportunities for the development of co-benefit measurement and assessment methodologies in the context of resilience planning. This report provides guidance and direction on the study and use of the resilience dividend by categorizing the various definitions of co-benefits to provide a frame of reference, reviewing measurement and assessment efforts, and summarizing the review in an annotated bibliography that can serve as a "quick guide" for researchers and practitioners looking for existing work on co-benefits. The report also highlights potential directions for future research.

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“…The social-ecological perspective that focuses on dynamic interactions between social and ecological systems across multiple temporal and spatial scales is widely considered key to building adaptive capacity and transformability in the broad context of social-ecological systems [11][12][13]. The integrative and vague essence of urban resilience makes it a malleable concept, which is beneficial from multiple perspectives for the evolution to a desirable development trajectory by embracing the ability to change as flexibly as possible over time [14,15].…”

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Landscape-Based Assessment of Urban Resilience and Its Evolution: A Case Study of the Central City of Shenyang

2019

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Urban resilience is increasingly considered a useful approach to accommodate uncertainties while achieving sustainability in urban systems, especially in the context of rapid urbanization and global environmental change. However, current research on the quantitative assessment of urban resilience is limited. This study introduces four proxies of urban resilience, i.e., diversity, connectivity, decentralization, and self-sufficiency, and the perspective of the urban landscape for the measurement of urban resilience and further guidance on planning practices by establishing connections between resilience potential and landscape characteristics. Using multi-source data and employing landscape-based analysis methods, urban resilience is investigated from 1995 to 2015 in the central city of Shenyang. The results indicate that the composition and configuration of the urban landscape changed significantly during this period, which had a great influence on urban resilience. The temporal and spatial evolution of urban resilience showed obviously directional preferences and an evident distance effect. Overall, the resilience level increased slightly, while the internal differences experienced a declining trend. The four characteristics can be deployed as practical principles to shape urban resilience. The adjustment and trade-offs of these aspects to enhance responsive structures and simultaneously maintain sustainable ecosystem services can be effective ways to realize long-term resilience.

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Towards the Development of an Integrated Sustainability and Resilience Benefits Assessment Framework of Urban Green Growth Interventions

Cited by 41 publications

References 44 publications

Analytical framework to evaluate the level of integration of climate adaptation and mitigation in cities

Analytical framework to evaluate the level of integration of climate adaptation and mitigation in cities

Defining the resilience dividend: accounting for co-benefits of resilience planning

Landscape-Based Assessment of Urban Resilience and Its Evolution: A Case Study of the Central City of Shenyang

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