Essays about: "Climate Adaptation Planning"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 156 essays containing the words Climate Adaptation Planning.

1. 11. Reconnecting Gävle’s Delta : a post-industrial urban transformation project for Sweden’s coastal landscape

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

   Author : Rachel Murray; [2023]
   Keywords : resilience; blue-green infrastructure; nature-based solutions; flooding; brownfield development; post-industrial urban development; landscape architecture; urban planning; climate adaptation; water-sensitive urban design; urban ecology;

   Abstract : This speculative design-led research project addresses the challenges of transforming dilapidated post-industrial brownfield sites into thriving, sustainable, resilient urban neighbourhoods. Tasked with allocating urban growth, municipality planning departments increasingly look towards underused but centrally located industrial sites for future development. READ MORE

3. 12. ”The Sea City” in Trelleborg: A climate-adapted design proposal to combat flooding from cloudbursts and rising sea levels

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö

   Author : Ulrica Flemström; [2023]
   Keywords : Adaptability; climate adaptation; cloudbursts; coastal protections; flooding; nature-based solutions; resilience; rising sea levels; sustainability; sustainable urban design; urban design; urban planning.; Arts and Architecture;

   Abstract : Scientific studies indicate that the effects of the ongoing climate crisis negatively affect and sometimes also threaten the built environment, humanity and nature in many ways. Cloudbursts and rising sea levels are two examples of such effects, which result in complex dilemmas and interesting challenges that planners and urban designers face within their field of work. READ MORE

4. 13. Climate adaptation to urban heat : A study of how Swedish municipalities with larger cities are adapting to warmer temperatures through urban planning

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema teknik och social förändring

   Author : Elin Kindberg; [2023]
   Keywords : Climate adaptation; Municipal planning documents; Urban heat; Urban planning;

   Abstract : The world is currently facing a changing climate and the various negative effects that it entails. In recent decades, enhanced climate adaptation responses have therefore become increasingly common across the world. READ MORE

5. 14. Där trädgård möter stenstad : ett gestaltningsförslag av växtbäddar som en urban naturbaserad lösning

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

   Author : Stina K. Jernbäcker; [2023]
   Keywords : växtgestaltning; ekosystemtjänster; bedömning av kulturhistoriska värden; urbana naturbaserade lösningar; tvärvetenskaplig analys; vegetation för ett framtida klimat; Ringvägens och Zinkensdamms kulturhistoria på Södermalm i Stockholm; forskning genom gestaltning;

   Abstract : Under senare år har funktionen av växtbäddar och ”grön infrastruktur” förändrats och blivit viktigare inom stadsplanering eftersom de visat sig kunna bidra till klimatanpassningen av städer. Genom att lyfta fram alla de ekosystemtjänster som en växtbädd kan ge människor, kan växtbäddar nu också betraktas nästan som ett system för klimatreglering och vattenhantering som kan avlasta stadens tekniska infrastruktur. READ MORE

6. 15. Wholesale market + - a transformation of the wholesale market Munich in a water sensible mixed district

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö

   Author : Annika Enzinger; [2023]
   Keywords : mixed use; water sensible; sustainable; transformation; Arts and Architecture;

   Abstract : There is always talk of climate change in the future, but climate change is already present in all its facets. Intense droughts, water scarcity, severe fires, rising sea levels, floods, melting polar ice, catastrophic storms, and the decline of biodiversity are already visible. READ MORE