Connecting people and place: a new framework for reducing urban vulnerability to extreme heat

Wilhelmi, Olga; Hayden, Mary H.

doi:10.1088/1748-9326/5/1/014021

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“…The role of a city climate change vulnerability assessment of a city system is mainly to evaluate the external environment, such as climate change leading to high temperatures, and the flood disaster response capacity, through the establishment of an index system of a city in each subsystem, is used to determine the degree of vulnerability of the city [27]. The field began to focus on city residents and the vulnerability assessment of extreme climate events in cities in recent years [28] as part of a humanism trend. Disaster risk index assessment is directly related to vulnerability in terms of evaluating the direct impact of urban development as the climate has changed [29].…”

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A Review of Urban Planning Research for Climate Change

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This paper identified the research focus and development tendency of urban planning and climate change research from 1990 to 2016 using CiteSpace, which is based on the Web of Science database. Through cluster analysis and a document sorting method, the research direction of city planning and climate change were mainly divided into four academic groupings, 15 clusters with homogenous themes representing the current research focus direction at the sub-level. The detailed study on the framework presented three mainstream developing directions: (1) The index assessment and spatial simulation on the impact of urban spatial systems for climate change have become important methods to identify and improve the adaptability of urban space. (2) Adaptive governance as a bottom-up strategy giving priority to institutional adaptation policy and collaborative polices for responding to climate change has become the hot direction in recent years. (3) The policies of urban public health-related urban equity, vulnerability, and environmental sustainability were addressed especially during the period from 2007 to 2009. Dynamic evolution trends of the research field were discussed: (1) The total numbers of papers in this field increased distinctly between 2005 and 2008, research focus shifted from single-dimension to multi-dimension comprehensive studies, and the humanism tendency was obvious. (2) After 2010, research on multi-level governance and spatial adaptation strategies became the key issues, and a bottom-up level adaptation policies were addressed. Finally, the critical influence of the important literature and the forefront issues of the research field were put forward.

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A Review of Urban Planning Research for Climate Change

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“…For scholars using livelihoods approaches to research sustainability and resilience of urban households, stresses and hazards interact with historic patterns of socio-economic and institutional segregation, placing some urban populations in hazard-prone areas and endowing households with access to resources and options differently [77][78][79][80]. Forces of socio-economic and socio-spatial segregation are conditioned by interactions between SETEG domains.…”

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Urban Sustainability and Resilience: From Theory to Practice

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Urbanization and urban areas are profoundly altering the relationship between society and the environment, and affecting cities' sustainability and resilience in complex ways at alarming rates. Over the last decades, sustainability and resilience have become key concepts aimed at understanding existing urban dynamics and responding to the challenges of creating livable urban futures. Sustainability and resilience have also moved and are now core analytic and normative concepts for many scholars, transnational networks and urban communities of practice. Yet, even with this elevated scholarly attention, strategies for bridging between research and practice remain elusive, and efforts to understand and affect change towards more sustainable and resilient urban centers have often fallen short. This paper seeks to synthesize, from this issue's papers and other strands of literature, the knowledge, theory and practice of urban sustainability and resilience. Specifically, we focus on what capacities urban actors draw on to create sustainability and resilience and how different definitions of these concepts intersect, complement, or contradict each other. We then examine the implications of those intersections and differences in the efforts by urban actors to enhance the capacity to change unsustainable trajectories and transform themselves, their communities, and their cities toward sustainable and resilient relationships with the environment.

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“…disabilities, workplaces, access to public services). 18,46 Poor understanding of community-related factors (e.g. social isolation, socio-economic status).…”

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“…scientists, health and emergency managers), placebased community resources, and community-based agencies (e.g. Meals on Wheels, Red Cross) 46,27 Co-beneficial strategies can minimise impacts from heatwaves and UHIE. 26,48,53,61 Potential collaboration to improve public and health services awareness and preparedness.…”

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Managing health impacts of heat in South East Queensland, Australia

2014

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Heatwaves kill more people than any other natural hazard in Australia. Current literature on managing health risks of heatwaves highlights the importance of implementing urban planning measures, and engaging with vulnerable groups on a local level to better understand perceptions of risk and tailor health protection measures. This paper reviews arrangements to reduce heatwave health risks in South East Queensland in response to these themes. A literature search and document analysis, stakeholder interviews, and multi-stakeholder cross-sectoral workshops revealed that although heatwave management is not always considered by local government and disaster management stakeholders, many urban planning measures to minimize urban heat have been pursued. However, greater information from vulnerable groups is still needed to better inform heatwave management measures. IntroductionHeatwaves have been associated with increased morbidity, mortality and hospital admissions in many metropolitan regions globally, including the South East Queensland region (SEQ) in Australia.1-5 Climate change is projected to increase the frequency and severity of heatwave events in SEQ, along with an increase in mean and maximum temperatures. 6,7 This could have critical implications for human settlements in the region as urban areas are especially sensitive to heatwave events because of the urban heat island effect (UHIE), 8,a thereby exacerbating heat exposure for urban residents. This paper contributes to inform multi-scale heatwave management efforts by focusing on the example of SEQ. It draws on the findings of the Human Settlements component of the South East Queensland Climate Adaptation Research Initiative (SEQ-CARI), a 3-year integrated multi-sectoral study of climate change adaptation options for human settlements in SEQ, including urban planning and management, coastal management, physical infrastructure, emergency management and human health. To this end, the paper is structured in 3 parts. The first part presents the SEQCARI research approach followed by a literature review on heatwave management broadly. The second part presents background information on SEQ and investigates cross-sectoral ambivalences to heatwave management and risks based on document analysis, literature review and empirical data derived from stakeholder workshops and interviews. The paper concludes by providing insights that can inform the development of heat management measures under a changing climate. Research ApproachThe Human Settlements component of SEQCARI aimed to explore and develop a range of appropriate adaptation strategies, policies and practices in each sector and across sectors, for better governance and management in response to the impacts of climate change. The research project was specifically directed to the SEQ region due to the earlier recognition of this region as one of 6 climate change 'vulnerability hotspots' in Australia. 10 The region is particularly vulnerable because of its coastal location and the distribution and location of its...

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Connecting people and place: a new framework for reducing urban vulnerability to extreme heat

Cited by 316 publications

References 40 publications

A Review of Urban Planning Research for Climate Change

A Review of Urban Planning Research for Climate Change

Urban Sustainability and Resilience: From Theory to Practice

Managing health impacts of heat in South East Queensland, Australia

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