A5034921480- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Housing Market and Economics
- Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Water resources management and optimization
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Museums and Cultural Heritage
- Facilities and Workplace Management
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Digital and Traditional Archives Management
- Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies
- Wind and Air Flow Studies
- Urban and Rural Development Challenges
- Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
- Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
Nierstichting
2021-2022
This essay addresses the long-term effectiveness of urban climate change adaptation approaches, based, inter alia, on work in C40 city network. We argue that most cities, dominant framing risk management almost exclusively focuses short-term incrementalities and preventive solutions directly tackling hazards, vulnerability, exposure. approach has serious flaws, leading to missed opportunities for longer-term sustainable development. Until very recently, science usually provided only a...
Cities, regions and countries are increasingly adapting to climate change. Adaptation approaches often build on disaster management activities deal with extremes make improvements already existing systems prepare for change, e.g., through water engineering or cooling buildings. But ideally, adaptation strategies aim also at tackling the root causes of risks broader sustainable development pathways. Such transformational approaches, however, still in their infancy. In this perspective paper...
Climate change can be an important additional risk for the financial sector. For (large) investments in real estate, it is becoming increasingly to take climate related risks into account. Yet, generating tailored physical information make meaningful decisions about investment portfolios remains difficult. Using literature review, semi-structured interviews and reflection on four case studies implemented Netherlands, this paper presents lessons learned recommendations improving Physical Risk...
Abstract Hydrological droughts pose a persistent threat for cities and are increasingly studied. However, this is rarely within large-scale context, complicating comparisons between potentially hampering the most efficient allocation of resources in terms drought risk adaptation mitigation. Here, we investigate global urban hydrological 264 agglomerations across all continents both present time future projections. To derive profiles each agglomeration, include components of: hazard (drought...
Hydrological droughts pose a persistent threat for cities and are therefore increasingly studied. However, this is rarely within large-scale context, complicating comparisons between potentially hampering the most efficient allocation of resources in terms drought risk adaptation mitigation. Here, we investigate global urban hydrological 264 agglomerations across all continents both present time future projections. To derive profiles each agglomeration, include components of: hazard (drought...
The real estate sector is in the spotlight of EU regulations given its high environmental impact. Technical screening criteria were established, and organisations now need to align with Taxonomy. As these often lack climate change expertise, a large number (often commercial) providers have developed different methods support assessing physical risk. This created challenge transparency, which limits trust ability improve, compare combine results assessments: ‘black-box’...
Much of the scientific insights and information on climate change adaptation do not reach decision-makers, companies, citizens. In literature, this gap between science society has been referred to as a ‘valley death’. One reasons for is that scientists societal actors have different understandings perceptions what usable. Climate services should shift from being science-driven, are user-driven science-informed. line with thought, practices such co-creation tailoring user...
<p>This study aims to assess current and future global hydrological drought risk for 263 cities around the globe. Preliminary results among 98 show that 73% of them will likely experience an increase in costs coming decades. Furthermore, they are on average between USD 8,000 – 32,000 per 1000 citizens year, which could approximately 9,000 40,000 by 2050.  Not many studies have focussed at scale before, even fewer explicitly consider cities. However,...
<p>This research attempts to monetize drought risk in 97 cities around the globe, using multiple climate and socioeconomic scenarios. Subsequently, it identifies possible adaptation actions mitigate these cities. This study is essential because whilst much effort has been put into modelling on all spatial scales recent decades, urban areas are often not explicitly included analyses, even though we live a rapidly urbanizing world. Two types of risks for identified investigated:...