Shifting to climate change aware cities to facilitate the city resilience implementation

Iturriza, Marta; Labaka, Leire; Hernantes, Josune; Abdelgawad, Ahmed A.

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2020.102688

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“…According to the analysed spatialplanning documents, the extent to which climate change was addressed depended on the spatial-plan coordinators, since the plans with independent chapters on climate change were led by the same spatial-plan coordinators. This is why raising awareness of this topic is relevant, not only for professionals, but also for teachers [85], the media [86], citizens [87], and all other stakeholders [88]. Sending a clear message is relevant in communication, and the visualisation suggested here can play an important role in communications between professionals and final users as a non-technical, easily understandable tool.…”

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Visualising the Relevance of Climate Change for Spatial Planning by the Example of Serbia

Pantić,

Maričić,

Milijić

2024

Applied Sciences

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After decades of rising awareness and undertaken actions, climate change is still one of several focal global challenges. Additionally, the latest report by researchers at the International Panel for Climate Change indicates that the crisis has deepened. With its comprehensive nature, spatial planning is one of the management tools responsible for dealing with climate change and combating its effects. Land use definition is the foundation on which we build mitigation and adaptation systems. It is a complex process that involves (or should involve) a range of stakeholders—experts, politicians, the civil sector, and citizens—in which the clear transmission of messages to stakeholders regarding the state of the art and planned actions is significant. The use of visualisation tools is one of the important ways to achieve this. This research aims to present a set of visualisation tools, applying them in analysis and decision making in the field of spatial planning with regard to climate change. We combined content analysis, colour-graded classification, and the spider method applied to the example of Serbia. The results showed that application of the suggested visualisation methods in combination with regular planning tools (maps) facilitates an understanding of the problem and its presentation to other stakeholders. In the case of Serbia, visualisation tools have shown that adaptation measures prevail over mitigation measures and that the effects of climate change addressed in spatial-planning documents do not significantly match the most challenging effects as perceived from the citizens’ perspective. These are aspects that should be corrected in the next generation of planning documents. The suggested visualisation tools are replicable, with slight adjustments to a specific case, to any other region in the world.

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Visualising the Relevance of Climate Change for Spatial Planning by the Example of Serbia

Pantić,

Maričić,

Milijić

2024

Applied Sciences

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“…Investors and development banks would also benefit from being able to recognize which conditions in the city to evaluate when having to select future city-level investments. Developing city stakeholder's awareness could lead to active behaviour and make cities more climate-resilient [74,75].…”

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A City Capability Assessment Framework Focusing on Planning, Financing, and Implementing Sustainable Energy Projects

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Cities are critical actors in reducing global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions; the level of knowledge, skills, and capacity, especially regarding innovative project planning such as sustainable energy (SE) projects, is fundamental for cities to meet their untapped potential. A range of indicator-based frameworks have been developed, focusing on general city economic competitiveness, yet these are often disconnected from the actual city operation and processes relevant to the investment cycle of SE projects. This paper proposes an integrated methodology for developing a City Capability Assessment Framework focusing on city planning, financing, and implementation capacity for SE projects. A principal component analysis (PCA) was applied to the results of a European city-survey to uncover areas highly relevant for the successful implementation of local SE projects. The insights gained aid policymakers to better understand implementation barriers, leading to the development of more effective actions and policy interventions towards the implementation of SE projects. The proposed framework can further enhance cities’ efforts with the implementation of local SE projects and guide potential investors to properly evaluate city capabilities and potential, when choosing local investment projects.

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“…From both a health and climate change mitigation perspective, it is pertinent to improve the level of climate-specific health literacy since high levels of awareness about climate change and its impact on health, society, and the economy are correlated (Reismann et al, 2021;Tran et al, 2021). Moreover, awareness is one of the approaches to establishing effective implementations of climate change resilience programs and adaptive capabilities (Iturriza et al, 2020b;Mercado, 2016), since vulnerability and adaptive capacity have often been tied to discussing the societal attributes of climate change (Ahsan & Warner, 2014). Generally, it is imperative to raise the public's awareness of the effects of climate change (Jürkenbeck et al, 2021).…”

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Impacts of climate change: Basis for a teaching enhancement approach for climate action

Espinosa,

Caisip

2023

IJRSE

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This study aimed to determine the level of awareness about the impacts of climate change among the participants, who were Filipino youth college students attending higher education institutions in Manila City. The researchers employed a descriptive-survey research design to identify knowledge gaps in the participants' present level of awareness regarding the impacts of climate change. The study participants were purposively chosen because they possessed certain characteristics and features that the study entails and requires. An expert-validated, self-made survey questionnaire was utilized in this study. The overall findings indicated a clear need to significantly boost Filipino college students' awareness of the implications of climate change, with a focus on the sectors of agriculture, coastal resources, forestry, and infrastructures, while the participants' awareness was limited with regard to the impacts on health and water resources. As a result, the vast majority of participating Filipino college students demonstrated that there are knowledge gaps regarding how adversely climate change has affected these sectors. In addition, the study discovered a significant difference between the assessments of the Filipino youth college participants in terms of age and year level in college. Therefore, the context of the findings must be taken into account when creating a teaching enhancement approach that can be incorporated into general education courses in higher education institutions and that would raise the level of awareness of Filipino youth college students in order to promote and advocate for climate action.

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Shifting to climate change aware cities to facilitate the city resilience implementation

Cited by 15 publications

References 35 publications

Visualising the Relevance of Climate Change for Spatial Planning by the Example of Serbia

Visualising the Relevance of Climate Change for Spatial Planning by the Example of Serbia

A City Capability Assessment Framework Focusing on Planning, Financing, and Implementing Sustainable Energy Projects

Impacts of climate change: Basis for a teaching enhancement approach for climate action

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