Speaker
Description
Climate change adaptation, CCA henceforth, is nowadays a shared concern, deeply investigated and advocated by international research and political organisations. However, both CCA implementation and its monitoring and evaluation (M&E) are challenges yet to be properly addressed. From a spatial planning perspective, local plans are the land-use-oriented tools with the highest potential to enhance CCA operativity. Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is also acknowledged to be a key instrument to integrate climate change concerns and hence, to monitor and evaluate climate change (CC) risks and CCA efforts. This study addresses two hypotheses, i.e., i) indicators included in SEAs' spatial plans may be used at the service of CCA M&E, ii) the full extent of indicators can be captured by multi-level planning analyses. To this aim, this study provides an in-depth analysis, through a multi-step systematic categorization, of the indicators used within the SEA of regional and municipal plans in the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region (Italy). This study brings novelty in the SEA research field by bridging the climate risk theoretical principles to the methodological approach for analysing SEAs' indicators, which are classified within the risk function frame. Key insights come from the metrics, the indicators' explicitness for CCA, and the indicators' extent into the climate risk function. Finally, the paper paves the way for further research of CC-and CCA-related indicators in both spatial planning and other public sectors to support CCA mainstreaming through SEAs.
References
ARPA-FVG
Il Clima del Friuli Venezia Giulia
https://www.osmer.fvg.it/clima/clima_fvg/02_documenti_descrittivi,_report_e_approfondimenti/01_Il_clima_del_Friuli_Venezia_Giulia/clima_fvg-divulgativo.pdf (2023)
D. Geneletti
A conceptual approach to promote the integration of ecosystem services in strategic environmental assessment
17 (4) (2016), 10.1142/S1464333215500350
A. Ledda, E.A. Di Cesare, G. Satta, G. Cocco, G. Calia, F. Arras, A. Congiu, E. Manca, A. De Montis
Adaptation to climate change and regional planning: a scrutiny of sectoral instruments
Sustainability, 12 (9) (2020), p. 3804, 10.3390/SU12093804
A. Mascarenhas, T.B. Ramos, D. Haase, R. Santos
Ecosystem services in spatial planning and strategic environmental assessment—A European and Portuguese profile
Land Use Policy, 48 (2015), pp. 158-169, 10.1016/J.LANDUSEPOL.2015.05.012
OECD
Strategic Environmental Assessment and Adaptation to Climate Change (2010)
V. Serra, A. Ledda, M.G.G. Ruiu, G. Calia, V. Mereu, V. Bacciu, S. Marras, D. Spano, A. De Montis
Adaptation to climate change across local policies: an investigation in six Italian cities
Sustainability, 14 (14) (2022), p. 8318, 10.3390/SU14148318
| Keywords | Urban planning; Climate change adaptation; M&E; Impact assessment; Climate risk |
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| Best Congress Paper Award | No |
