Nature-Based Solutions Tools for Planning Urban Climate Adaptation: State of the Art

Voskamp, Ilse M.; Luca, Claudia de; Ballinas, Monserrat Budding-Polo; Hulsman, Helena; Brolsma, Reinder

doi:10.3390/su13116381

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“…The contributions to benefits, trade-offs, possible disservices, and assessment or management tools call for a better understanding and representation of location, onsite, and operative decisions. Regarding this, a multitude of tools has been developed [28]. Voskamp et al [28] provided an overview of 43 tools that support the planning of nature-based solutions for urban climate adaptation.…”

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“…Regarding this, a multitude of tools has been developed [28]. Voskamp et al [28] provided an overview of 43 tools that support the planning of nature-based solutions for urban climate adaptation. The review identified well-acknowledged challenges, such as expertise and building competencies, along with less-acknowledged challenges, such as financial planning and governance of urban development.…”

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“…Partly on that account, international principles [8] (such as the Sustainable Development Goals [9]) and national legislation call for impactful and sustainable improvements [10] in order to mitigate and counteract the mentioned problems and other accompanying adverse environmental impacts, such as biodiversity loss [1,[11][12][13][14][15], disturbed water balances and flows [1,16,17], harmful emissions [18][19][20], and soil loss [1,15,21]. Therefore, authorities are challenged to cope with tasks beyond their current formal purview of governance, quickly gain practical experience, and develop competencies for managing local resources to mitigate anthropogenic impacts, adapt to climate change, and future-proof cities [22][23][24][25][26][27][28]. Accordingly, systems for location-specific information handling are needed to provide data-driven science-topolicy integration [29,30].…”

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Namares—A Surface Inventory and Intervention Assessment Model for Urban Resource Management

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Densely built-up areas are challenged by reduced biodiversity, high volumes of runoff water, reduced evaporation, and heat accumulation. Such phenomena are associated with imperviousness and low, unsustainable utilisation of land and exterior building surfaces. Local authorities have multiple objectives when (re-)developing future-proof districts. Hence, exploiting local potentials to mitigate adverse anthropogenic effects and managing the resource of urban land/surfaces have become key priorities. Accordingly, a five-level hierarchy for a land-sensitive urban development strategy was derived. To support the operationalisation of the hierarchy, we present the model Namares, a highly resolved GIS-based approach to enable spatially explicit identification and techno-economic and environmental assessment of intervention measures for advantageous utilisation of available surfaces per land parcel. It uses existing data and covers the management of economic, natural, and technical resources. Nine intervention measures are implemented to identify potentials, estimate investments and annual costs, and assess the appeal of existing subsidies. The approach was applied to a case study redevelopment area in a large city in Germany. The results provide spatially explicit information on greening potentials, estimated investments, subsidy demand, and other quantified benefits. The case study results show the limited potential for additional unsealing of impervious surfaces by transforming ca. 10% of sealed ground surface area into new urban gardens. At the same time, up to 47% of roof and 30% of facade surfaces could be utilised for greening and energy harvesting. The approach enables a comprehensive localisation and quantitative assessment of intervention potentials to enhance decision support in land-sensitive urban development strategies.

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“…A first pathway to drive urban agendas and actions towards nature-positive cities is to establish evidence-based metropolitan and urban planning for valuing, prioritising and maintaining nature in cities. Urban planning has the potential to bridge the gap between aspirations and real-life transformations in urban spaces and infrastructures, especially when informed and guided by evidence through data, accounting for lived experiences of people and a new appreciation of people-nature relationships in cities (Bush 2020 ; Potter 2020 ; Voskamp et al 2021 ). Urban planning as an institutional platform to enable and accelerate the transition to nature-positive urbanism can elicit this by transforming planning instruments and approaches, including how urban parks are managed and regenerated, how offsetting is regulated, how zoning and urban development is managed and how new planning tools are integrated in existing urban planning processes.…”

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A transformative mission for prioritising nature in Australian cities

Frantzeskaki

Oke

Barnett

et al. 2022

Ambio

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Australia is experiencing mounting pressures related to processes of urbanisation, biodiversity loss and climate change felt at large in cities. At the same time, it is cities that can take the leading role in pioneering approaches and solutions to respond to those coupling emergencies. In this perspective piece we respond to the following question: What are the required transformations for prioritising, valuing, maintaining and embracing nature in cities in Australia? We adopt the mission framework as an organising framework to present proposed pathways to transform Australian cities as nature-positive places of the future. We propose three interconnected pathways as starting actions to steer urban planning, policy and governance in Australian cities: First, cities need to establish evidence-based planning for nature in cities and mainstream new planning tools that safeguard and foreground urban nature. Second, collaborative planning needs to become a standard practice in cities and inclusive governance for nature in cities needs to prioritise Aboriginal knowledge systems and practices as well as look beyond what local governments can do. Third, for progressing to nature-positive cities, it is paramount to empower communities to innovate with nature across Australian cities. Whilst we focus on Australian cities, the lessons and pathways are broadly applicably globally and can inspire science-policy debates for the post COP15 biodiversity and COP26 climate change implementation processes.

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“…However, there is still a significant gap in understanding climate adaptation and how to develop climate adaptation solutions, in order to improve the response to climate change in the long term. In addition to the many challenges faced by the implementers of these solutions [32], city planners and building designers can be pivotal actors contributing to climate adaptation, drawing on the personal experiences, beliefs, and values of local communities, which can determine how to accept and implement climate adaptation practices [7].…”

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Towards Climate Adaptation in Cities: Indicators of the Sustainable Climate-Adaptive Urban Fabric of Traditional Cities in West Asia

Alabsi

Koko

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Applied Sciences

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One of the most important criteria for a city’s sustainability is climate adaptation. Simultaneously, traditional cities in West Asia have achieved harmony between architecture and the environment, depending on the experience and culture of the local community, indicating a fundamental stage of adaptation to the environment and climate. This research attempted to study and examine the traditional urban fabric, in order to diagnose its significance and ability to solve contemporary problems, such as the lack of comfortable and suitable urban housing environments in hot–dry climate areas, which cover most of West Asia. We used two research methods to create an integrated vision to investigate the indicators and their effect on urban form. Four case studies in the urban fabric and housing communities of West Asia’s hot–dry research areas were chosen for the analytical study. Furthermore, inductive analysis was carried out to determine the most critical sustainability parameters in the particular urban fabric. The climate response parameters of the study cities were evaluated using Ecotect simulation tools, and the determinants of sustainability indicators were quantitatively evaluated to assess each indicator’s impact on the sustainability of the urban fabric. Our findings have implications for assessing the relevance of climate adaptation in the sustainability of cities and their effectiveness in combating the impacts of climate change.

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Nature-Based Solutions Tools for Planning Urban Climate Adaptation: State of the Art

Cited by 37 publications

References 24 publications

Namares—A Surface Inventory and Intervention Assessment Model for Urban Resource Management

Namares—A Surface Inventory and Intervention Assessment Model for Urban Resource Management

A transformative mission for prioritising nature in Australian cities

Towards Climate Adaptation in Cities: Indicators of the Sustainable Climate-Adaptive Urban Fabric of Traditional Cities in West Asia

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