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Description
Climate planning is commonly understood as consisting in two main components: adaptation and mitigation. Adaptation deals with anticipating adverse climate effects and plan actions for minimising adverse impacts. Mitigation focuses on minimising climate change impacts by reducing the balance of Green House Gases (GHG) in the atmosphere, either by reducing emissions and by enhancing the capacity of natural systems of sequestrating carbon. While climate adaptation is mostly local and urgent for enhancing urban systems resilience in the short term, mitigation addresses a global phenomenon and accordingly should be treated based on globally and locally coordinated efforts. The spatial dimension of planning is of utmost relevance in both cases, and the two type of planning should be coordinated (Howarth and Robinson, 2024). Nevertheless, while local short-term adaptation is better understood (UN-Habitat, 2014) and applied, climate mitigation planning is less understood and practiced and local endeavours may have little effect without global coordination. In this sense, this contribution proposes the application of geodesign methods and tools to address multi-scale collaborative climate spatial planning. Results of on-going research include the construction of a global-local spatial database, the creation of web-based interactive planning support tools and impact models, and the experimentation of multi-stakeholder’s strategic collaborative climate planning workshops at the regional (i.e. Sardinia, Italy), national (i.e. Italy), supra-national (i.e. the Mediterranean) level. The results of the research shed light on the relationships among multi-scale climate planning aiming at understanding to what extent the methodology and relevant enabling technologies can provide support for a global governance for climate mitigation planning.
References
UN-Habitat (2014) Planning for climate change: Guide - A strategic, values-based approach for urban planners. [Online] available at: https://unhabitat.org/planning-for-climate-change-guide-a-strategic-values-based-approach-for-urban-planners
Howarth, C., Robinson, E.J.Z. (2024) Effective climate action must integrate climate adaptation and mitigation. Nat. Clim. Chang, 14, pp. 300–301
| Keywords | climate planning; geodesign; spatial governance; co-design; planning support systems; |
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| Best Congress Paper Award | Yes |
