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The paper focuses on adaptation measures in Polish cities, particularly emphasizing the role of blue-green infrastructure in planning and strategic documents. The analysis covers the last two decades to register the change in approach to climate change and to show the tools that cities have started to use, including Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and remote sensing (satellite and aerial imagery). The research focused mainly on Wroclaw and five selected Polish cities: Warsaw, Gdansk, Poznan, Lodz, and Krakow. The work includes the legal context at the European and national levels and how these affect local planning. It also includes recent changes in Polish legislation and how this affects adaptation measures.
The most comprehensive part of the work presents the essential research process and its results. Strategies, policies, and urban planning documents of Wroclaw spatial planning for the last twenty years have been studied. The most important provisions for protecting and shaping green areas and stormwater management in local spatial plans were elaborated. In addition to the spatial plans analyses, master plans and other documents relevant to the city were studied.
The author's goal was to fill the gap in the research devoted to the evolution of provisions in planning documents in terms of changing trends over the past twenty years in greenery planning in Poland, on the example of Wroclaw city and in comparison with other Polish cities.
In particular, the last decade is when the role of blue-green infrastructure and nature-based solutions as tools in climate adaptation planning could be observed. Diagnosis of the dynamics of changing trends was made regarding planning and strategic documents, which are, so to speak, a litmus test of real changes in the approach to urban planning. The way the documents are produced has also changed, access to data and the use of tools allows better assessment of the impact of the findings on the space.
Increased public awareness has also played a significant role in the study. The study tries to include the influence of the public on the solutions applied, particularly when it comes to the protection of green spaces. The research is supplemented by a subsection consisting of interviews with professional planners and city officials.
| Keywords | blue-green infrastructure; resilience; climate adaptation planning; |
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| Best Congress Paper Award | Yes |
