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Climate Change and Fish Farming: Venetian “Fish Valleys” as a Design Device for Coastal Adaptation and Mitigation

Cipriani, L. (author), Destro, Alessandro (author)

Beginning in the fourteenth century, along the northeastern Italian coastline, Venetians began to create a series of hydraulic structures called “fishing valleys,” which combined aquaculture production with lagoon and seawater management. According to the current scenarios provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the coastal...

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Uncertainty in boundedly rational household adaptation to environmental shocks

Taberna, A. (author), Filatova, T. (author), Hadjimichael, Antonia (author), Noll, B.L. (author)

Despite the growing calls to integrate realistic human behavior in sustainability science models, the representative rational agent prevails. This is especially problematic for climate change adaptation that relies on actions at various scales: from governments to individuals. Empirical evidence on individual adaptation to climate-induced...

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Including equity considerations in resilient transport network planning and analysis: A flood impact perspective

van Marle, Margreet (author), Jafino, B.A. (author), Lourens, Lotte (author), Hüsken, Lieke (author)

Transportation plays a pivotal role in society in the accessibility of socio-economic functions, such as education and health services. At the same time these transport networks are put under pressure due to increasing demands and the often-increasing occurrence of climate-induced events. To increase resilience of the transportation network...

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Experts as Game Changers? A Critical Discourse Analysis of Climate Measures in the Metropolitan Region of Amsterdam

Herdt, T. (author), Muñoz Sanz, V. (author)

This article analyzes the acceptance of climate policy measures in the Metropolitan Region of Amsterdam to understand how policy and planning interrelate with private and public interests. While legitimizing climate policy and measures, values can also cause conflict when operationalized locally. By analyzing value conflicts in public discourse,...

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Climate change impacts on immovable cultural heritage in polar regions: A systematic bibliometric review

Nicu, Ionut Cristi (author), Fatorić, Sandra (author)

Over the past decade, research on the impacts of climate change on immovable cultural heritage (ICH) in the polar regions (Arctic and Antarctica) has slowly increased. This article offers a systematic review and synthesis of the publications about climate change impacts on the diverse ICH and climate change adaptation in the polar regions....

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Gender-Ethnicity Intersectionality in Climate Change Adaptation in the Coastal Areas of Bangladesh

Assaduzzaman, Mohammad (author), Filatova, T. (author), Lovett, Jon C. (author), Coenen, Frans H.J.M. (author)

Climate change effects are not uniform and have disproportionate impacts among different groups of people within communities. It is therefore important to understand the underlying issues of intersectionality for climate change adaptation and human well-being. This paper aims to measure human capabilities and freedom of choice by analyzing...

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Enabling Socio-Ecological Resilience in the Global South: Insights from Chennai, India

Tajuddin, N.A. (author), Dabrowski, M.M. (author)

Addressing climate change adaptation in the cities of the Global South is crucial as they are the most at risk and, arguably, the least capable of coping with it due to their rapid expansion, informal development, and limited institutional capacity. This paper explores this challenge in the case of Chennai, India, a city which, in recent years,...

journal article 2021

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Fragile airports. Fragile cities. Fragile landscapes

Cipriani, L. (author)

Recent events provide ample proof of the fragility of cities, territories and airport nodes when they come face-to-face with extreme and unexpected events. The Coronavirus pandemic, for example, has caused a complete disruption in the air network. Climate change, recurrent floods, rising seas, desertification, land impoverishment and, more...

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Shanghai’s Strive to Excel in Climate Change Adaptation and Low-Carbon Promises: A Model to Follow?

den Hartog, Harry (author)

The subtitle of Shanghai’s latest Master Plan (2017–2035) is “Striving for an Excellent Global City.” According to this plan, Shanghai wants to compete, and possibly surpass, other global cities such as New York, London, Paris, Singapore, and Tokyo in terms of economy, image, and quality of life. The plan’s authors state that “the world has...

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Adaptive capacity of the Pearl River Delta cities in the face of the growing flood risk: Institutions, ideas and interests

Dabrowski, M.M. (author), Stead, D. (author), He, J. (author), Yu, Feng (author)

Although the cities in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) in China are amongst the world’s cities most exposed to flooding due to climate change, surprisingly little is done to address this problem. This article explores the barriers to the emergence of policies adapting to the growing flood risk in two PRD cities, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, underlining...

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Meeting at the crossroads? Developing national strategies for disaster risk reduction and resilience: Relevance, scope for, and challenges to, integration

Wamsler, Christine (author), Johannessen, A. (author)

Increasing impacts from disasters and climate hazards have prompted international efforts to promote the development of national disaster risk reduction and resilience (DRRR) strategies intended to reduce mortality and other losses. The development of such strategies is the subject of target E of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk...

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Adaptive asset management for flood protection: The FAIR framework in action

Vonk, Bart (author), Klerk, W.J. (author), Fröhle, Peter (author), Gersonius, Berry (author), Heijer, Frank Den (author), Jordan, Philipp (author), Ciocan, Ulf Radu (author), Rijke, Jeroen (author), Sayers, Paul (author), Ashley, Richard (author)

Uncertainties about climate change consequences, changing societal requirements and system complexity require flood protection asset managers to continuously evaluate their asset management policies and practice to manage risk and improve the resilience of their assets. However, there are many challenges in doing this, with asset operators...

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Realising the potential of cultural heritage to achieve climate change actions in the Netherlands

Fatorić, Sandra (author), Egberts, Linde (author)

Climate change impacts on diverse cultural heritage is gaining scholarly and policy attention, yet little research has been conducted on how can diverse cultural heritage inform decisionmakers and policymakers in achieving climate change actions (i.e., climate change adaptation and mitigation). For this study, we conducted semi-structured...

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Adapting cultural heritage to climate change impacts in the Netherlands: barriers, interdependencies, and strategies for overcoming them

Fatorić, Sandra (author), Biesbroek, Robbert (author)

Climate change is currently impacting cultural heritage globally. Despite advances in the understanding of the relationship between climate change impacts and cultural heritage, there are significant barriers that hamper adaptation of cultural heritage to current and projected climate risks. This paper aims to advance the empirical understanding...

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Knowledge co-production in climate adaptation planning of archaeological sites

Fatorić, Sandra (author)

Climate adaptation is a process for minimizing the risks of damage or loss to coastal archaeological sites. Yet, adaptation requires identifying and prioritizing among the diverse aspects of a site’s significance, as not all sites can be simultaneously adapted due to financial and human capital constraints. Developing a measurement framework...

journal article 2019

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Sanitary systems: Challenges for innovation

Eijlander, Sabine (author), Mulder, K.F. (author)

Global society is confronted with various challenges: climate change should be mitigated, and society should adapt to the impacts of climate change, resources will become scarcer and hence resources should be used more efficiently and recovered after use, the growing world population and its growing wealth create unprecedented emissions of...

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Boundary spanning for governance of climate change adaptation in cities: Insights from a Dutch urban region

Dabrowski, M.M. (author)

Adapting to climate change in the urban setting requires cooperation across scales, levels of government, organisational boundaries and policy sectors. The study presented in the paper explores governance of urban adaptation policies through the conceptual lens of multi-level governance and boundary spanning. It focuses on the South Wing of the...

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Using satellite imagery analysis to classify and redesign provincial parks for a better cooling effect on cities: The case study of South Holland

Echevarria Icaza, L. (author), van den Dobbelsteen, A.A.J.F. (author), van der Hoeven, F.D. (author)

The purpose of this research is to analyse the thermal behaviour of South Holland provincial parks during heat waves, in order to provide design adaptation guidelines to increase their cooling capacity over the hotspots present in their urban surroundings. This research analyses the thermal behaviour of different land use patches (forests,...

journal article 2016

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Coastal and riverine ecosystems as adaptive flood defenses under a changing climate

van Wesenbeeck, B (author), de Boer, W.B. (author), Narayan, Siddharth (author), van der Star, Wouter R L (author), de Vries, Mindert B. (author)

Adaptation planning for flood risk forms a significant part of global climate change response. Engineering responses to higher water levels can be prohibitively costly. Several recent studies emphasize the potential role of ecosystems in flood protection as adaptive risk reduction measures while also contributing to carbon fixation. Here, we...

journal article 2016

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Presenting a framework to analyze local climate policy and action in small and medium-sized cities

Hoppe, T. (author), van der Vegt, Arjen (author), Stegmaier, Peter (author)

Academic attention to local climate policy usually focuses on large-sized cities. Given the climate challenges ahead this seems unjustified. Small and medium-sized cities (SMCs) deserve scholarly attention as well. The main question is: What factors influence climate change policy and local climate actions in SMCs? In this article we present...

journal article 2016