Abstract
Climate change is a global phenomenon that poses local risks to sectors across society and the economy. All these growing risks have led the Municipality of San Donà di Piave—located within the Metropolitan City of Venice (CMVe)—to strengthen, over the years, its commitment to the adaptation to climate change in its plans and policies. Nature-based solutions can offer a perfect example of sustainable solutions to cope with climate change mitigation and adaptation challenges. In this context, thanks to the support of the LIFE Master Adapt project, San Donà di Piave, applying its methodologies and creating new territorial information, was able to insert, within its Action Plan for Sustainable Energy and Climate (SECAP), important and structural Nature-Based Solutions (NBSs) for the entire municipal area. This experience demonstrates how this process of mainstreaming adaptation actions and NBSs is possible at all levels of government of the territory. It also highlights the virtuosity of replicability in other contexts of the CMVe and the transition from theoretical concepts to concrete actions (NBSs) for adaptation into existing plans. This process happened with a climate-proof modification of the existing planning attitude, whether mandatory or voluntary.
Highlights
The Metropolitan City of Venice (CMVe), located within the Veneto Region, is an area historically linked to the dynamics of anthropogenic management of environmental resources [1]
The case of San Donà di Piave shows how the modification of planning tools and administrative practices can happen with a clear, linear and collaborative path between stakeholders together with a strong territorial analysis In San Donà di Piave, Nature-Based Solutions (NBSs) and adaptation actions permeated plans, programs and projects relating to the municipal territory with NBS and actions for adaptation to climate change
These strategic interventions—green, grey, or blue—that favor the storage of the water resource, exploitation in the non-emergency phase and controlled flow during extreme events as well as adaptation actions, should be translated into mandatory plans for territorial planning
Summary
The Metropolitan City of Venice (CMVe), located within the Veneto Region, is an area historically linked to the dynamics of anthropogenic management of environmental resources [1] This area is nowadays very sensitive to the increasing climatic changes due to global warming. Its strong exposure to the impacts of climate change is the result of territorial processes that have contributed over time to generate a high consumption of land The consequence of this process—and its relationship with a territory which for a large part is below sea level—has significantly increased its hydraulic hazard [2]. The combination of these factors has gradually reduced the absorption capacity of water flows by land during intense weather events.
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