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Redeveloping Open and Urban Green Spaces for Climate Resilience; A Case Study of Chennai
Open and Urban green spaces (UGS) are important assets of urban sustainability, provide essential ecosystem services, climate resilience and contribute to human well-being. However, planning open and UGS for climate resilience requires appropriate land use planning aided by urban policies and planning guidelines. In this chapter, we present a GIS (Geographical Information System) based framework to identify open and UGS for developing climate resilience using Chennai as a case city. Using high-resolution satellite imageries, we have identified 63 sq. km of potential land parcels that can be developed as open and UGS in Chennai city that will provide climate adaptation benefits against floods and urban heat island effect. We debate the importance of identifying and protecting open areas and UGS in urban development master plans and further discuss some of the current opportunities enabled by recent urban policies and missions such as the smart city and AMRUT mission and barriers, particularly on master planning including capacity gaps and urban governance for redeveloping urban green spaces in Indian cities for climate resilience.
Highlights:
High-resolution open-source satellite imageries like Sentinel are useful to map potential areas for UGS.
Understanding the city climate risks allows for better identification and evaluation of open spaces for urban resilience.
Recent urban policies in India and schemes like Smart City Mission, AMRUT provide opportunities for redeveloping open and green spaces
Constraints include poor master planning and implementation, limited capacities of urban planners in planning green spaces in the context of climate change and weak urban governance.
Redeveloping Open and Urban Green Spaces for Climate Resilience; A Case Study of Chennai
Open and Urban green spaces (UGS) are important assets of urban sustainability, provide essential ecosystem services, climate resilience and contribute to human well-being. However, planning open and UGS for climate resilience requires appropriate land use planning aided by urban policies and planning guidelines. In this chapter, we present a GIS (Geographical Information System) based framework to identify open and UGS for developing climate resilience using Chennai as a case city. Using high-resolution satellite imageries, we have identified 63 sq. km of potential land parcels that can be developed as open and UGS in Chennai city that will provide climate adaptation benefits against floods and urban heat island effect. We debate the importance of identifying and protecting open areas and UGS in urban development master plans and further discuss some of the current opportunities enabled by recent urban policies and missions such as the smart city and AMRUT mission and barriers, particularly on master planning including capacity gaps and urban governance for redeveloping urban green spaces in Indian cities for climate resilience.
Highlights:
High-resolution open-source satellite imageries like Sentinel are useful to map potential areas for UGS.
Understanding the city climate risks allows for better identification and evaluation of open spaces for urban resilience.
Recent urban policies in India and schemes like Smart City Mission, AMRUT provide opportunities for redeveloping open and green spaces
Constraints include poor master planning and implementation, limited capacities of urban planners in planning green spaces in the context of climate change and weak urban governance.
Redeveloping Open and Urban Green Spaces for Climate Resilience; A Case Study of Chennai
Joshi, P. K. (editor) / Rao, K. S. (editor) / Bhadouria, Rahul (editor) / Tripathi, Sachchidanand (editor) / Singh, Rishikesh (editor) / Govindarajulu, Dhanapal (author) / García Sánchez, Francisco (author) / Chaudhry, Pradeep (author)
Blue-Green Infrastructure for Sustainable Urban Settlements ; Chapter: 13 ; 299-317
2024-08-28
19 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
Urban Green Spaces for Environmental Sustainability and Climate Resilience
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