Geodesign Brazil: Trees for the Metropolitan Area of São Paulo

Sandre, Adriana Afonso; Fruehauf, Amanda Lombardo; Miyahara, Augusto Akio Lucchezi; Rosa, Ashiley Adelaide; Maruyama, Cíntia Miua; Locoselli, Giuliano Maselli; Candido, Leticia Figueiredo; Lombardo, Magda Adelaide; Coelho, Matheus Aguiar; Murolo, Rafael Pollastrini; Pombo, Riciane Maria Reis; Marques, Taícia Helena Negrin; Pellegrino, Paulo Renato Mesquita

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-86979-3_33

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“…This increases light, nutrients, and temperature exposure relative to their non-urban counterpart, thereby often resulting in larger growth and sequestration rates in cities 44,45 , provided that soil and water are available. Several studies have quantified the potential for urban afforestation in available spaces and their associated contribution towards CO2 sequestration [46][47][48] . For instance, available urban land in California points to the potential for planting an additional 36 million trees sequestering an extra 4.5 MtCO2 annually and reducing urban land surface temperature by 1.8°C 49 .…”

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Assessing global urban CO2 removal

Rodriguez Mendez,

Fuss,

Lück

et al. 2024

Nat Cities

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Cities worldwide are increasingly committing to achieving net-zero carbon emissions in the coming decades. Most cities are not yet aware of the drastic changes in built environment required to reduce GHG emissions, and in many cases carbon neutrality targets will require atmospheric carbon removal outside or within city boundaries to offset remaining emissions. Since cities are particularly affected by increasing temperatures (e.g. due to the urban heat island effect), direct regulation of radiation through surface albedo management has also been suggested to alleviate these exacerbated urban heat impacts. With the aim of supporting the path to carbon-neutral cities, this paper assesses the existing literature on Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) at the urban scale, seeking to quantify the potential negative emissions contribution of cities globally. Our potential estimates indicate that deploying CDR options at the urban scale could make a significant contribution to global mitigation of climate change, alongside supporting the upscaling of climate action from local to regional and national scale. The associated human and environmental well-being effects strengthen the case for cities as carbon sinks. The upscale of the reviewed technologies is nevertheless constrained by numerous uncertainties, economic barriers and governance issues that pose substantial drawbacks to their implementation and scope, suggesting a future research agenda.

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Section: Storing C In Vegetationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessing global urban CO2 removal

Rodriguez Mendez,

Fuss,

Lück

et al. 2024

Nat Cities

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“…Accordingly, some studies have adopted the online and hybrid geo-design approaches. For instance, they used tools like GISColab, which is a shared spreadsheet in Excel software [35], or had remote meeting rooms and used digital tools [36], which have been proven to be effective [35][36][37].…”

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Geo-Design in Planning for Bicycling: An Evidence-Based Approach for Collaborative Bicycling Planning

Zare

Pettit

Leão

et al. 2022

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In recent times, cities have increasingly promoted bicycling as a mode of transport as part of their strategy to develop a more sustainable transportation system. Australia is one of the countries that seeks to promote bicycling in a significant manner. There are two primary barriers faced in this effort. The first is the organizational complexity of planning and of implementing cycling-related projects, which can span across different agencies in government at various levels, from federal to local. Second is the lack of a clear framework for effectively planning a bicycling network using multiple data and tools available to these agencies within a limited budget. This study investigates the use of a geo-design-based, collaborative, and data-driven framework for planning bicycling networks, which brings various stakeholders, such as transport planners, urban designers, and academics, into the planning practice, thus overcoming the mentioned barriers. Geo-design is an environmental design framework for complex problems involving the collaboration of different teams and stakeholders, supported by digital computing and communication technologies. To the best of our knowledge, there is no study in the literature applying the geo-design approach for bicycling planning. Therefore, this study aims to develop and test a geo-design framework for planning bicycling networks to examine possible design scenarios and facilitate decision-making processes. In this regard, this study developed a geo-design framework for planning for bicycling using various bicycling-related datasets and digital tools, such as the Agent-Based Model. Then, it applied the framework to design a real-world bicycle network through a geo-design workshop while examining the usefulness and effectiveness of the developed procedures and tools. Policymakers attended the geo-design workshop from the local government authority of the case study area, Penrith, and post-graduate level urban planning students from UNSW. Due to COVID-19-related restrictions, the workshop was held in a hybrid format, with half of the participants joining online. The results of this study revealed that by facilitating collaboration and applying data-driven approaches, the proposed geo-design bicycling framework could improve the process of planning for bicycling infrastructure. This study also enabled the research team to understand the strengths and limitations of the developed framework and associated tools, which will help to optimize them for other planning practices in the future.

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