Climate Proofing of (Urban) Planning Instruments
Abstract
The growth of (small) cities, urban regions and the increasing density of urban areas lead to land use conflicts and, as a consequence, to the loss of green infrastructures and the associated ecosystem services. The changes in the global climate reinforce the so-called urban heat island effect (UHI) and an increase in extreme weather events is predicted. This is associated with negative consequences for communities and their inhabitants, their quality of life and health, etc. Numerous studies have shown that urban green (and blue) infrastructure can make a decisive contribution to reducing this heat stress or to dealing with heavy rainfall events, as well as providing numerous other ecosystem services. Urban, landscape and spatial planning is directly addressed to contribute to the adaptation to climate change. The steady increase in sealed surfaces not only leads to direct land consumption, but also to a reduction in the areas used for water retention and at the same time to an increase in urban heat islands. All spatially effective decisions are climate-relevant but the planning system and planning instruments are not yet climate-sensitive. The central challenge for (small) cities and municipalities, however, is that they lack appropriate control and planning instruments for the precautionary management of urban green infrastructure. Based on the (missing) anchoring of climate change adaptation in the objectives and tasks of spatial planning as well as spatial planning objectives that support climate change adaptation (e.g. soil protection), existing approaches and instruments should be subjected to "climate proofing" and approaches for new instruments and methods should be developed and tested. The participating cities contribute current examples, which will be examined and, if necessary, further developed in the course of the research project.
keywords Urban Planning Planning instruments Climate Proofing Climate resilient cities
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Project staff
Doris Damyanovic
Assoc. Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Doris Damyanovic
doris.damyanovic@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-10041, 85415
Project Leader
01.11.2020 - 30.06.2023
Florian Reinwald
Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Florian Reinwald
florian.reinwald@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-85417
Sub Projectleader
01.11.2020 - 30.06.2023
Roswitha Weichselbaumer
Dipl.-Ing. Roswitha Weichselbaumer
roswitha.weichselbaumer@boku.ac.at
Project Staff
01.11.2020 - 30.06.2023
BOKU partners
External partners
Technical University Vienna
Dr. Arthur Schindelegger
partner