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Adapting metropolitan areas to global warming – A systemic modelling approach

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Abstract:

Societies need to both reduce their green house gas emissions and undertake adaptation measures to limit the negative impacts of climatic change around the population, the economy and also the atmosphere. Analyzing the best way to evolve metropolitan areas is particularly challenging as cities will evolve because the climate changes. Thus, analyzing adaptation techniques for metropolitan areas needs a strong interdisciplinary approach involving urban planners, architects, meteorologists, building engineers, economists, and social scientists. Ideas introduce a systemic modelling method of the issue. Our four-step methodology includes: first, defining interdisciplinary scenarios second, simulating the lengthy-term evolution ofcities based on socio-economic and land-use models third, calculating impacts with physical models (for example TEB), and lastly, calculating the symptoms that evaluate the result of various adaptation policies. Within the examples presented here, urban planning strategies are proven to possess unpredicted affect on city
expansion within the lengthy term. Furthermore, the Urban Heat Island should be taken into consideration in operational estimations of creating energy demands. Citizens’ practices appear to become a competent lever for reducing energy consumption in structures. Interdisciplinary systemic modelling seems suitable towards the look at several adaptation techniques for a really wide range of topics.

Authors:

V. Masson, C. Marchadier et al

Thematic area:

Ecosystem-based Adaptation

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