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European Cities Dealing with Climate Issues: Ideas and Tools for a Better Framing of Current Practices. ; European Cities Dealing with Climate Issues: Ideas and Tools for Better Framing Current Practices.
Contemporary cities have to deal with numerous challenges, from the growth and aging of urban populations to the scarcity of resources; from environmental degradation to climate change. The latter, also due to the increasing severity of climate-related impacts on urban areas, is widely considered one of the most urgent challenges for urban development in the near future: cities are the main contributors to energy consumption and GHG emissions, paying, at the same time, the highest price for the climate impacts. Thus, climate issues have gained increasing importance in the last decades, both in terms of the metaphors coined by scholars relative to urban future (low-carbon cities, transition cities, smart cities, resilient cities, etc.) and in terms of the initiatives undertaken on different institutional levels. Unfortunately, mitigation and adaptation are generally regarded as two different approaches, neglecting the potential synergies and trade-offs between the related strategies. Hence, based on the growing awareness of the need for mainstreaming mitigation and adaptation policies at city level, this study will provide an overview of the state of the art of the mitigation and adaptation initiatives in Italian metropolitan cities. Then, focusing on the concepts of the “smart” and the “resilient” city – recognized as key concepts for reducing CO2 emissions and improving the ability of cities to respond to climate impacts – and with reference to a conceptual framework for building up a smart and resilient urban system carried out in previous research works (Papa et al., 2015), the study will examine case studies of the cities of Rotterdam and Barcelona, highlighting how this framework may improve our understanding and, above all, contribute to better integration of the fragmented on-going strategies and initiatives. ; Contemporary cities have to deal with numerous challenges, from the growth and aging of urban population to the scarcity of resources, from environmental degradation to climate change. The latter, also due to the increasing severity of climate-related impacts on urban areas, is widely considered one of the most urgent challenge for urban development in the next future: cities are the main contributors to energy consumption and GHG emissions, paying meanwhile the highest price to the climate impacts. Thus, in the last decades climate issues have gained more and more importance both in the metaphors carried out by scholars in respect to urban future (low-carbon cities, transition cities, smart cities, resilient cities, etc.) and in the initiatives undertaken on different institutional levels. Unfortunately, mitigation and adaptation are generally regarded as two different approaches, by neglecting the potential synergies and trade-offs between the related strategies. Hence, based on the growing awareness of the need for mainstreaming mitigation and adaptation policies at the city level, this contribution will provide a state of the art of the mitigation and adaptation initiatives in the Italian metropolitan cities; then, focusing on the concepts of “smart” and “resilient” city – recognized as key concepts for saving CO2 emissions and improving cities’ capacity to respond to climate impacts – and with reference to a conceptual framework for building up a smart and resilient urban system carried out in previous research works (Papa et al., 2015), the study will analyze the case studies of Rotterdam and Barcelona, by highlighting how this framework may improve our understanding and, above all, contribute to a better integration of the fragmented on-going strategies and initiatives.
European Cities Dealing with Climate Issues: Ideas and Tools for a Better Framing of Current Practices. ; European Cities Dealing with Climate Issues: Ideas and Tools for Better Framing Current Practices.
Contemporary cities have to deal with numerous challenges, from the growth and aging of urban populations to the scarcity of resources; from environmental degradation to climate change. The latter, also due to the increasing severity of climate-related impacts on urban areas, is widely considered one of the most urgent challenges for urban development in the near future: cities are the main contributors to energy consumption and GHG emissions, paying, at the same time, the highest price for the climate impacts. Thus, climate issues have gained increasing importance in the last decades, both in terms of the metaphors coined by scholars relative to urban future (low-carbon cities, transition cities, smart cities, resilient cities, etc.) and in terms of the initiatives undertaken on different institutional levels. Unfortunately, mitigation and adaptation are generally regarded as two different approaches, neglecting the potential synergies and trade-offs between the related strategies. Hence, based on the growing awareness of the need for mainstreaming mitigation and adaptation policies at city level, this study will provide an overview of the state of the art of the mitigation and adaptation initiatives in Italian metropolitan cities. Then, focusing on the concepts of the “smart” and the “resilient” city – recognized as key concepts for reducing CO2 emissions and improving the ability of cities to respond to climate impacts – and with reference to a conceptual framework for building up a smart and resilient urban system carried out in previous research works (Papa et al., 2015), the study will examine case studies of the cities of Rotterdam and Barcelona, highlighting how this framework may improve our understanding and, above all, contribute to better integration of the fragmented on-going strategies and initiatives. ; Contemporary cities have to deal with numerous challenges, from the growth and aging of urban population to the scarcity of resources, from environmental degradation to climate change. The latter, also due to the increasing severity of climate-related impacts on urban areas, is widely considered one of the most urgent challenge for urban development in the next future: cities are the main contributors to energy consumption and GHG emissions, paying meanwhile the highest price to the climate impacts. Thus, in the last decades climate issues have gained more and more importance both in the metaphors carried out by scholars in respect to urban future (low-carbon cities, transition cities, smart cities, resilient cities, etc.) and in the initiatives undertaken on different institutional levels. Unfortunately, mitigation and adaptation are generally regarded as two different approaches, by neglecting the potential synergies and trade-offs between the related strategies. Hence, based on the growing awareness of the need for mainstreaming mitigation and adaptation policies at the city level, this contribution will provide a state of the art of the mitigation and adaptation initiatives in the Italian metropolitan cities; then, focusing on the concepts of “smart” and “resilient” city – recognized as key concepts for saving CO2 emissions and improving cities’ capacity to respond to climate impacts – and with reference to a conceptual framework for building up a smart and resilient urban system carried out in previous research works (Papa et al., 2015), the study will analyze the case studies of Rotterdam and Barcelona, by highlighting how this framework may improve our understanding and, above all, contribute to a better integration of the fragmented on-going strategies and initiatives.
European Cities Dealing with Climate Issues: Ideas and Tools for a Better Framing of Current Practices. ; European Cities Dealing with Climate Issues: Ideas and Tools for Better Framing Current Practices.
Papa, Rocco (Autor:in) / Galderisi, Adriana (Autor:in) / Vigo Majello, Maria Cristina (Autor:in) / Saretta, Erika (Autor:in)
20.10.2015
doi:10.6092/1970-9870/3658
TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment; 2015: ECCA 2015 - Smart and Resilient Cities. Ideas and Practices from the South of Europe; 63-80 ; Tema. Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment; 2015: ECCA 2015 - Smart and Resilient Cities. Ideas and Practices from the South of Europe; 63-80 ; 1970-9870 ; 1970-9889
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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710
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