Policy platforms as support tools for climate change mitigation and adaptation policymaking: A case study of policymakers and policy advisors’ perceptions of policy platforms as support tools and how to improve their design and use

Multiple challenges affect the effectiveness of climate change mitigation and adaptation measures, such as accountability, intergenerational justice and developing countries’ increased participation in greenhouse gas emissions. The high complexity of information surrounding models’ assumptions, results, and scenarios related...

Assessing the remaining lifetime of the Haringvliet sluices: A method for a full system analysis of existing hydraulic structures to quantitatively and qualitatively determine plausible adaptive courses for their remaining lifetime

Many Dutch infrastructure assets were constructed in the first half of the 20th century and by considering an average design life time of roughly 100 years, a lot of these structures will reach the end of their designed life in the upcoming decades. This results in a large replacement and renovation challenge in the nearby future. Assessing the...

Building Design Approaches and Performance Under Predicted Climate Conditions

The building environment has high energy consumption and carbon emission which contributes to the rapid climate change. The changing climate condition not only impacts the natural environment but also our habitation. To improve the building performance in both energy and indoor comfort, performance-based design is commonly applied in...

Rethinking the Infra- Culture space: bridging, providing, enhancing

Mashhad has been geopolitically an important city in the region and a trade and connection hub to Central and East Asian countries. It is also the second-largest Muslim pilgrimage city after Mecca. It is a global city for which religion shaped the identity and influenced the spatial configuration of the city.<br/><br/>Religion, politics and...

ENCOREstate: Enabling Circular Construction to Public Space Regeneration in Shanghai New Workers' Estates

The most urgent need for regeneration in the future is a large number of new workers' estates built from the 1950s. The physical and social decay problems of these areas start to become severe in recent years. There has already been some researches and regeneration of the buildings in these areas, but the public space quality is dissatisfied and...

Climate Change Impact Assessment on Ports: Overview and Gap Analysis

In spite of the major and broad consequences of adverse climate change impacts on ports in general, relatively little and relevant detailed research is made available within public domain. Several studies have addressed climate impacts on transportation infrastructure however very few focus on ports and supply chain. Ports are considered...

Adaptive Livability in Bergen

Climate change and other challenges such as energy transition and social transition in Bergen mean the urban structure and spatial qualities would be influenced and the lifestyle of people might also change. In order to sustain or improve the current level of livability of the city, certain policies and interventions through spatial planning and...

A new integrated N-S (north-south) system: Renaturing the lower Thames Estuary

Estuarine area, as a transition area between land and sea, is the most dynamic and complicated area, due to its unique location and diverse ecosystem, but yet it is also the most vulnerable and fragile area, as it may be plagued with flooding risk, erosion, subsidence and etc. As the diagram show below, estuary area is influenced by three...