Climate Resilient Urban Development

McEvoy, Darryn

doi:10.3390/su11030724

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“…McEvoy states that climate resilience should be dealt with as an element of urban development. An influence also on the infrastructure sphere may be noticed [31,32]. This is especially important for critical infrastructure protection [33,34].…”

Section: Sustainability and Resilience Of Infrastructure-general Premmentioning

confidence: 99%

Risk-Based Approach for Informing Sustainable Infrastructure Resilience Enhancement and Potential Resilience Implication in Terms of Emergency Service Perspective

Gromek¹,

Sobolewski²

2020

Sustainability

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Infrastructure resilience ascribes into the United Nations’ agenda for sustainable development. The more information supporting infrastructure resilience enhancement, the higher chance that it will be done objectively and effectively, and especially in a sustainable way. In spite of many different approaches and data sources, there is a lack of information that respects the emergency service point of view. The main research objective is to investigate factors determining sustainable infrastructure resilience enhancement that reflects direct protection of the most important values (human life and health) by connecting multiple variants of infrastructural resilience corresponding with the voice of emergency service and based on real data risk assessment. The methodology consists in formulation of a reference model for informing sustainable infrastructure resilience enhancement, risk assessment for infrastructure safety in terms of emergency service perspective and risk-based rationalization of the enhancement manners. The model stems from urban resilience and city resilience. Its components are physical resilience, structure and setting resilience, organizational resilience, economic resilience and legal resilience. These elements are related to hazards’ character, operational specification and resource requirements, operationalizing the model in terms of emergency conditions. For risk rationalization purpose, 1,255,826 events which occurred in 2015–2019 are analysed. Nearly 70% of the summary value of infrastructural risk is related to residential buildings and other categories of objects (garages, auto repair shops, monuments of material culture, objects of natural environment, hydro-technical objects, military objects, ex-territorial objects and others). Sustainable-related manners are specified notably for abovementioned buildings and objects. Deepening the analysis of cognitive limitations gives ideas for further research.

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Section: Sustainability and Resilience Of Infrastructure-general Premmentioning

confidence: 99%

Risk-Based Approach for Informing Sustainable Infrastructure Resilience Enhancement and Potential Resilience Implication in Terms of Emergency Service Perspective

Gromek¹,

Sobolewski²

2020

Sustainability

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“…But such high dense urban coastal areas in Asia are highly exposed and vulnerable to disasters and rise of the sea level. Therefore, to minimize disaster risks the UN framework along with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); the Sendai Framework for Disasters Risks Reduction (UNSIDR); the Paris Agreement on Climate Change (UNFCC) and the New Urban Agenda (UN-Habitat) have all been recently endorsed to help shape more sustainable resilient urban development pathways (McEvoy, 2019).…”

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Changing Urban Ecology a Challenge for Coastal Urban Resilience: A Study on Muscat

Nasiri

Al‐Awadhi

Hereher

et al. 2020

Environment and Urbanization ASIA

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Rapid urbanisation has always been considered a determinant of the changing urban ecology, which encompasses vegetation, open spaces and vacant land to a compact urban area. Such changes of urban ecology expose coastal cities and make them vulnerable to natural disasters like flash floods and storm surges. This study uses the Compound Annual Growth Rate model and geospatial analysis to assess the changes to the urban ecology along the 43 km long coastline of Muscat, one of the fastest growing highly urbanized coastal capitals of the Arab world. The changes are calculated on 5 m and 10 m datums for three time periods (1990s, 2010s and 2017 onwards). The study finds that since the 2010s both the agricultural and low land have changed to a compact urban built-up area; highly dense vegetation and open spaces changed to scattered ornamental plantation and impervious areas. Such changes to the urban ecology along the coastline increase the vulnerability of Muscat to both sudden and slow onset of natural disasters. A critical literature analysis was also conducted to understand the changes to the urban ecology due to urbanization of global coastal cities in comparison to Muscat. With the quantitative data from the growth model and qualitative approach from critical literature analysis, this article finds that urban resilience for the Muscat coastline has been compromised due to changes in the urban ecology.

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Climate Resilient Urban Development

Abstract: A combination of population growth, unprecedented rates of urbanization, and a changing climate, is leading to complex resilience challenges for Governments and societies around the world [...]

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References 12 publications

Risk-Based Approach for Informing Sustainable Infrastructure Resilience Enhancement and Potential Resilience Implication in Terms of Emergency Service Perspective

Risk-Based Approach for Informing Sustainable Infrastructure Resilience Enhancement and Potential Resilience Implication in Terms of Emergency Service Perspective

Changing Urban Ecology a Challenge for Coastal Urban Resilience: A Study on Muscat

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