Heat waves and adaptation strategies in a mediterranean urban context

Maggiotto, Giuseppe; Miani, Alessandro; Rizzo, Emanuele; Castellone, Maria Domenica; Piscitelli, Prisco

doi:10.1016/j.envres.2021.111066

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“…The substantial coastal developments in most countries are particularly vulnerable to SLR. Adaptation solutions include urban greening, use of cool surfaces, development of sustainable public transportation, improvements in the energy and water efficiency of the built environment, green building projects, coastal erosion protection measures and more (Abubakar & Dano, 2020; Dimitriou et al., 2020; Giannakis et al., 2020; Maggiotto et al., 2021; Salimi & Al‐Ghamdi, 2020; Serghides et al., 2022). Urban forestry and the planting of other vegetation could help mitigate climate change while also improving air quality and liveability, with consequent psychological and physical benefits for urban dwellers (Maggiotto et al., 2021).…”

Section: Adaptation Options and Policy Recommendationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Climate Change and Weather Extremes in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East

Zittis

Almazroui

Alpert

et al. 2022

Reviews of Geophysics

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 The Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East region is warming almost two times faster than the global average and more rapidly than other inhabited parts of the world. Climate projections indicate a future warming that is particularly strong in the summer, associated with unprecedented heat extremes. Total precipitation will likely decrease in many regions, particularly in the eastern Mediterranean. Virtually all socio-economic sectors will be critically affected by the projected changes.

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Section: Adaptation Options and Policy Recommendationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Climate Change and Weather Extremes in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East

Zittis

Almazroui

Alpert

et al. 2022

Reviews of Geophysics

204

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“…Projections show that by 2050 nearly 70% of the world's population will live in urban areas [1]. Urbanization and densification processes have led to severe environmental degradation and biodiversity loss [2,3], and their effects are maximized by climate change and the likely increase in frequency and severity of environmental hazards such as droughts, floods, and heatwaves [4], along with other climate-related hazards able to increase overall vulnerability [5][6][7][8]. Devising strategies to manage more concentrated climate hazards will be especially challenging because urban areas interact with and influence climate in ways that amplify (worsen) impacts and reduce urban resilience [9,10].…”

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confidence: 99%

The Social, Political, and Environmental Dimensions in Designing Urban Public Space from a Water Management Perspective: Testing European Experiences

Ricart

Berizzi

Saurı́

et al. 2022

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“…These phenomena affect the population, increasing direct health risks and social isolation. We also have to bear in mind that we are still experiencing the effects of COVID-19, which significantly increased social isolation [ 14 , 15 ]; thus, there is an urgent need to spread best practices, especially for the Mediterranean regions where the worst effects are expected in a very short time [ 16 , 17 , 18 ].…”

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The Utilization of the WMO-1234 Guidance to Improve Citizen’s Wellness and Health: An Italian Perspective

Cremonini¹,

Nardino²,

Georgiadis³

2022

IJERPH

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In 2019, the World Meteorological Organization published its “Guidance on Integrated Urban Hydrometeorological, Climate and Environment Services (Volume I: Concept and Methodology)” to assist WMO Members in developing and implementing the urban services that address the needs of city stakeholders in their countries. The guidance has relevant implications for not only protecting infrastructures from the impacts of climate change in the urban environment, but its proper declination strongly supports health-related policies to protect the population from direct and indirect impacts. Utilizing some principles of the guidance, the urbanized area of Bologna (Italy) was analyzed in order to furnish the municipality with tools coherent with the best practices actually emerging from the international bibliography to protect the citizens’ health of this city. Specifically, the analysis concentrated on the public spaces and the potential vulnerabilities of the fragile population to high-temperature regimes in the city. Utilizing the guidance as a methodological framework, the authors developed a methodology to define the microclimate vulnerabilities of the city and specific cards to assist the policymakers in city regeneration. Because the medieval structure of the city does not allow the application of a wide set of nature-based solutions, our main attention was placed on the possibility of furnishing the city with a great number of pocket parks obtainable from spaces actually dedicated to parking lots, thus introducing new green infrastructures in a highly deprived area in order to assure safety spaces for the fragile population.

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Heat waves and adaptation strategies in a mediterranean urban context

Cited by 23 publications

References 64 publications

Climate Change and Weather Extremes in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East

Climate Change and Weather Extremes in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East

The Social, Political, and Environmental Dimensions in Designing Urban Public Space from a Water Management Perspective: Testing European Experiences

The Utilization of the WMO-1234 Guidance to Improve Citizen’s Wellness and Health: An Italian Perspective

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