WILL PLANNING SAVE THE CITIES? MANAGING RESPONSES TO CLIMATE CHAGE

Professor Milica Bajić-Brković, SerbiaPresident of ISOCARP 2012-2015

CONTENTS

Cities on the move: becoming pro-active and responsivePlanning is catching up: adapting and amending, is it enough?Understanding better: climate change as a driveDoing better-working smarter: a responsive planning practice

CITIES ON THE MOVE: TAKING A PRO-ACTIVE APPROACH

TISZA RIVER FLOODPLAIN

http://www.icpdr.org/main/activities-projects/integrated-land-development-project-component-2-undpgef-tisza-msp-ild-improve

INTEGRATED FLOODPLAIN MANAGEMENT

Improving management of 1,600 km2Influencing an estimated area of 9,400km2

Objectives:

• Integrated and sustainable management of land, water, habitats and biodiversity that support thesocio-economic development

• Building environmental capacity at the local level• Building institutional capacity at the local level• Protecting towns and villages

Hungary is planning to use farmland to hold up to a billion cubic meters of water to prevent flooding elsewhere. The Hungarian government will create a dozen of reservoirs on farmland near the Tisza that will be allowed to flood.

DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY FOR RIVER WARTA IN POZNAN

http://www.restorerivers.eu/Portals/27/Posters%20KuiperCompagnons.pdfISOCARP REVIEW 10: WATER AND CITIES: Managing a Vital Relationship, Wisniewska E., Niesten, M: Development Strategy for river Warta in Poznan, Poland, www.isocarp.org

DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY FOR RIVER WARTA IN POZNAN

http://www.waterfrontsnl.com/project-poznan/ISOCARP REVIEW 10: WATER AND CITIES: Managing a Vital Relationship, Wisniewska E., Niesten, M: Development Strategy for river Warta in Poznan, Poland, www.isocarp.org

SOLUTIONS FOR WATER SAFETY, SPATIAL QUALITY AND ECONOMIC FEASIBILITY: theprojects explored options on a range of scales and provided solutions on regional, city,neighbourhood, historical city-centre and building scale.

ROTTERDAM CLIMATE INITIATIVEhttp://www.rotterdamclimateinitiative.nl/

Integrated Approach

“Its ambitions projects in the fields ofthe environment, climate, energy andwater contribute to a green, clean,healthy and economically strong cityand make Rotterdam the mostsustainable world port. The city, portand municipality are working togetherwith companies, citizens andknowledge institutions in order toachieve this together, focusing ondecisiveness, innovation and co-creation”

http://www.rotterdamclimateinitiative.nl/

ROTTERDAM IS DESIGNING FOR FUTURE Water Plaza Floating buildings

Climate proof buildings: as the sealevel rises, the floating spheres riseaccordingly. The first three pavilionsare already in place, while thefloating urban district in Stadhavensis planned to be completed by 2040.The buildings will use solar energyand will be energy self – sufficient.They are targeted to meet the 50%CO2 reduction. A number ofsustainability requirements will bemet, regarding waste water, choice ofconstruction materials, etc.

Planned and designed todeliberately allow flooding. Onheavy rain days Plaza functions asa reservoir relieving pressure on asurrounding drainage system.

Some local governments have placed an emphasis on monitoring the critical environmental components in making their communities climate responsive

PANCEVO: EcoBUS and BusTRUCKER PROJECT

Taken from: Brkovic, M., Sretovic, V: Urban Sensing-Case Studies from Serbia

EcoBus uses instruments mounted ontothe existing public transportation vehiclesin order to monitor environmentalparameters

MONITORING STRATEGIES FOR MAKING COMMUNTIES CLIMATE RESPONSIVE

Project led strategy Cross-departmental collaboration Is planning marginalized?

Getting started

Assess risk and

vulnerability

Identify adaptation

options

Assess adaptation

options

Implement adaptation

options

Monitor and evaluate

adaptation actions

CITIES ON THE MOVE

PLANNING IS CATCHING UP: ADAPTING AND AMENDING, IS IT ENOUGH?

ADAPTING AND AMENDING, IS IT ENOUGH?

No actionPOLICIES

Implementation

Monitoring and evaluation

Formulation

Agenda setting Decision

PLANS AND PROJECTS

StrategiesAction Plans

Sectorial StrategiesComprehensive Plans

Projects

Thematic Plans and Projects

Guidelines

European Environmental Agency: Urban adaptation to climate change in Europe. No 2/2012

UNDERSTANDING BETTER: CLIMATE CHANGE AS A DRIVE

URBAN RESILIENCE SUSTAINABILITY CULTURE AS A FOURTH PILLAR

OF SUSTAINABILITY SEA LEVEL RISE INFORMATION COMMUNICATION

NETWORKING SOCIAL RESILIENCE FLOODING DRYING REGIONS

WATER ENERGY HYPER-DYNAMIC AGE URBAN LIVEABILITYFAST FORWARD CARBON CITIES SMART CITIES URBANEXPANSION MEGA CITIES ACCESSIBILITY DESIGN FOR ALL-MOBILITY

GREEN DEVELOPMENT GREEN CITIES ACCESSIBILITY FOOD

DOING BETTER: A RESPONSIVE PLANNING PRACTICE

Nowadays approach to integrativeplanning rests on differentunderstanding of the role that globalphenomena and processes hold forplanning.

Climate change is recognized as adrive in triggering structural changesin organizing planning with regard toCONCEIVING, COMMUNICATINGand IMPLEMENTING planningsolutions.

INTEGRATED AND COLLABORATIVE PLANNING

Climate

Environment

Society

City

Economy

• Change of a single scale and single issue approach

• Including a broad variety of stakeholders• Collaboration between scientist,

researchers, experts, practitioners and policy/decision makers

• Introducing social innovation and universal language for anyone to share their ideas

• Combining expert knowledge and local knowledge

• Openness to new ideas, concepts and innovation

Bajic-Brkovic, M.: CLIMATE CHANGE, NATIONAL POLICIES AND LOCAL DEVELOPMENT: MEETING THE CHALLENGE, in: Pucar. M., B. Dimitrijevic (Eds): CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT,IAUS, Serbia, ISBN 978-86-80329-72-7ICLEI: RESILIENT CITIES 2014-the 5th Global Forum on Urban Resilience and Adaptation www.iclei.org

INTEGRATED AND COLLABORATIVE PLANNING

THE CHANGING WORLD CHANGES PLANNING BY EXTENDING ITS FRONTIERS INCONCEIVING, THINKING AND ACTING

Climate

Environment

Society

City

Economy

• Communicating and working with othersaffects the way how planning works. Thetransformation takes place with respect toplanning procedures and the waysolutions are conceived, delivered andimplemented

• Capacity to understand other disciplinesviews and complexity of the areas wheredifferent discipline meet

• Recognizing that creative thinking is aserious input to any planning exercise

INTEGRATED AND COLLABORATIVE PLANNING

THE CHANGING WORLD CHANGES PLANNING BY EXTENDING ITS FRONTIERS INCONCEIVING, THINKING AND ACTING

Climate

Environment

Society

City

Economy

GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

SURVEY AND DATA COLLECTION AND ANALISYS

CONCEPT: ALTERNATIVES

EVALUATION OF ALTERNATIVES

CHOICE OF THE PREFERRED

REFINEMENT AND PHASING

FORMULATION OF SOLUTIONS AND RESPONSES

GUIDELINES FOR IMPLEMENTATION

IMPLEMENTATION

PROBLEMS AND OPPORTUNITIES

GOALS, OBJECTIVES AND PRIORITIES

OPTIONS AND TRADE OFFS`

RESOURCES AND CONSTRAINTS

FORMULATION OF TASKS

FORMULATION OF SOLUTIONS AND RESPONSES

GUIDELINES FOR IMPLEMENTATION

IMPLEMENTATION…

SURVEY AND DATA ANALYSIS

DOING BETTER-WORKING SMARTER

• Framing the planning process accordingly

• Understanding differences in scale, settings and local specifics, and their implications for practice

• Accepting that one’s own way of approaching issues might be limited: connecting to other disciplines

• Upgrading planning methodologyby introducing new methods andtechniques

• Evaluation criteria and adaptationcriteria and measures are based onsocial, economic, climate changeand environmental factors

• Recognizing that creative thinkingis a serious input to any planningexercise: creative thinking does notrelate to planning solutions, itembraces methods, techniques andinstruments

ICIAintegrated ClimateImpact Assessmentspecifically designed forurban planning purposes.ICIA should be acompulsory requirementfully integrated in theplanning procedures.

DOING BETTER-WORKING SMARTER

• Understanding the role of the ICT sectorin the interests of urban sustainability

• Including ICT and related technologiesas key elements of national climate change policies, across all industry sectors

• Developing new means of communicatingtechnical issues

• Linking climate change management withICT opportunities

• Expanding the role of ICT/social media ininvolving the public into climate changeissues

DOING BETTER-WORKING SMARTER

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