Abstract
In response to the global challenges brought on by climate change, cities around the world are adapting, innovating through nature-based strategies for sustainable development. Climate adaptation requires new interdisciplinary approaches in which different disciplines as well as research and practice proactively co-create and collaborate on adaptation to reduce the ongoing effects of anthropogenic climate change. Although awareness on climate adaptation is on the rise, new approaches for urban development are still in development. Moreover, existing approaches mainly focus on local-scale levels or lack a crossover with urban and landscape planning. The present contribution offers an example of an integrated approach bridging urban climatology, landscape planning, and governance to assess and develop climate adaptation solutions linking city and district levels. The city of Verona was taken as a case study to test this approach and its implications for the development of a green and blue infrastructure with a climate-responsive master plan for the district of Verona South. Through critical reflection on the application of the approach to the case study, we aimed to identify its potentials and barriers. Based on this reflection, we provide herein recommendations on how climate modelling can be integrated into planning, as well as on how urban planners and urban climatologists can support each other in making credible and salient climate adaptation solutions.
Highlights
The growing interest in climate change and its consequences on human well-being is fostering the inclusion of climate in planning activities in addition to economic, social, and environmental issues [1]
The European Green Deal [2] further outlines a set of policy initiatives and funding opportunities to invest in making Europe climate neutral in 2050 by promoting circular economy and nature-based solutions (NBS)
Many studies are conducted at the microscale with ENVI-Met (e.g., [26,27,28]), while studies at the mesoscale often do not deliver the detailed information necessary for urban planning. This contribution offers an example of a climate-responsive approach in which we describe a multidisciplinary and interscalar design process combining fields of knowledge bridging urban climatology, landscape planning, and governance
Summary
The growing interest in climate change and its consequences on human well-being is fostering the inclusion of climate in planning activities in addition to economic, social, and environmental issues [1]. The European Green Deal [2] further outlines a set of policy initiatives and funding opportunities to invest in making Europe climate neutral in 2050 by promoting circular economy and nature-based solutions (NBS). With these documents, the European Union recognized the importance of implementing the. Cities’ and communities’ adaptation to climate change is outlined as one of the most emergent and urgent challenges in the near future [1,5,6]. The clearest phenomenon of climate change in urban environments is the urban heat island (UHI) effect [7].
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