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Integrating strategic planning of nature-based solutions into urban planning
Climate change increases the frequency and intensity of extreme rainfall events, which, coupled with urbanization, increases the risk of urban pluvial flooding. The planning of urban flood adaptation and urban planning impact each other, but the two are often planned separately. This typically results in urban flood adaptation becoming a problem that has to be solved after urban development plans have been decided, which do not provide the most optimal solutions to the many stakeholders in urban areas. Flood adaptation through nature-based solutions (NBS) is expected to deliver multiple benefits to urban areas, and thus relevant for multiple stakeholders. It is important to communicate the benefits of NBS in monetary terms to stakeholders in order to provide a common language, and to be able to understand socio-economic trade-offs and build business cases for NBS. Many of the benefits associated with NBS are intangible, thus they have no markets and require resource-intensive valuation techniques associated with a lot of uncertainty. While organisations are encouraging cost-benefit analyses, intangible benefits are rarely included. Planning is further complicated by long planning horizons that are subject to changes over time related to climate change, population growth and urban development. The overall objective of this PhD was to support strategic planning of NBS by integrating it into urban planning. Due to the multiple dimensions of complexity as explained above, the research spanned across several methodologies and scientific fields. The main research objectives included stakeholders and their planning objectives, the availability and applicability of non-market valuation studies, and the integration of cost-benefit analysis with uncertainty of the future as well as different stakeholder perspectives. Social science techniques were used to identify stakeholders and their planning objectives in planning situations where urban flood adaptation interacts with urban planning. A structured literature screening ...
Integrating strategic planning of nature-based solutions into urban planning
Climate change increases the frequency and intensity of extreme rainfall events, which, coupled with urbanization, increases the risk of urban pluvial flooding. The planning of urban flood adaptation and urban planning impact each other, but the two are often planned separately. This typically results in urban flood adaptation becoming a problem that has to be solved after urban development plans have been decided, which do not provide the most optimal solutions to the many stakeholders in urban areas. Flood adaptation through nature-based solutions (NBS) is expected to deliver multiple benefits to urban areas, and thus relevant for multiple stakeholders. It is important to communicate the benefits of NBS in monetary terms to stakeholders in order to provide a common language, and to be able to understand socio-economic trade-offs and build business cases for NBS. Many of the benefits associated with NBS are intangible, thus they have no markets and require resource-intensive valuation techniques associated with a lot of uncertainty. While organisations are encouraging cost-benefit analyses, intangible benefits are rarely included. Planning is further complicated by long planning horizons that are subject to changes over time related to climate change, population growth and urban development. The overall objective of this PhD was to support strategic planning of NBS by integrating it into urban planning. Due to the multiple dimensions of complexity as explained above, the research spanned across several methodologies and scientific fields. The main research objectives included stakeholders and their planning objectives, the availability and applicability of non-market valuation studies, and the integration of cost-benefit analysis with uncertainty of the future as well as different stakeholder perspectives. Social science techniques were used to identify stakeholders and their planning objectives in planning situations where urban flood adaptation interacts with urban planning. A structured literature screening ...
Integrating strategic planning of nature-based solutions into urban planning
Skrydstrup, Julie (author)
2021-01-01
Skrydstrup , J 2021 , Integrating strategic planning of nature-based solutions into urban planning . Technical University of Denmark , Kgs. Lyngby .
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