objectives and innovative character to ensure existing and new mixed use urban development is...
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Impact via objectives Eleven Adaptation Actions Plans Eleven High Level Policy Statements Risk & Vulnerabilities Assessment Tool Case Study Database Seven Expert Papers Three Policy Guidelines Five Briefing PapersTRANSCRIPT
Objectives and innovative character
‘to ensure existing and new mixed use urban development is adapted tothe impact of climate change through improving local and regionalplanning policy to put in place green and blue infrastructure;
‘to facilitate the much needed exchange of knowledge and experienceand the actual transfer of good practice on climate change adaptationstrategies to local and regional authorities across Europe’
• Multiple use of Green Infrastructure
• 10% decrease in urban green leads to a potential 8.2ºC increase in surface temperatures by the 2080s
• 10% increase in urban green will keep temperatures at, or below, current levels until the 2080
City of Malmo
Klaipeda University Coastal Research and Planning Institute
Regional Environmental Centre for Eastern Europe (Slovakia)
Province of Styria
Municipality of Kalamaria
University of Catania
EtnambienteProvince of Genoa
Nieuw-West City District, Amsterdam
Southampton City Council
TCPA
London Borough of Sutton
Northwest Regional Development Agency
University of Manchester
Impact via objectives
• Eleven Adaptation Actions Plans • Eleven High Level Policy Statements• Risk & Vulnerabilities Assessment Tool• Case Study Database• Seven Expert Papers• Three Policy Guidelines• Five Briefing Papers
Enhancing partnerships and legacy
• October 2010: Committee of the Regions Open Days• November 2010: EC Environment Green Infrastructure Conference• June 2011: Lord Henley, Defra, UK GIP announced at GRaBS final conference• June 2011: Regions for Economic Change• November 2011: IVC Good Practice Fair• December 2011: COP17 Durban• 2012: GRaBS at Rio!
Online
Google-map base
Climate change/flood risk data
Partner socio-economic and demographic data
hyperlinked information
Local updates
http://www.grabs-eu.org/casestudies.php
risk and vulnerabilities assessment tool