Typology of Climate Change Adaptation Measures in Polish Cities up to 2030

Eliza Kalbarczyk and Robert Kalbarczyk
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Eliza Kalbarczyk: Faculty of Human Geography and Planning, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, 61-680 Poznań, Poland
Robert Kalbarczyk: Institute of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Geodesy, Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, 50-357 Wrocław, Poland

Land, 2020, vol. 9, issue 10, 1-18

Abstract: Poland, like other countries in the world, increasingly experiences the ongoing climate change. However, the level of preparation of the country and its society for climate change in the second decade of the 21st century can be evaluated as low. The Municipal Adaptation Plans (MAPs) created in 2017–2019 became a subject of research studies whose main goal was to determine the typology of adaptation actions to be undertaken as part of MAPs in the 14 selected Polish cities in various geographical regions. Moreover, the type and scope of intended actions were analysed according to the planned amount of expenditure and from the perspective of sectors. The tasks accepted for implementation up to 2030 mainly relate to modernisation and development of transport systems and to actions connected with physical infrastructure. A large number of tasks and even a bigger scale of financial sources planned in the analysed MAPs for mitigation actions show that Polish cities are at an initial stage of actions for climate protection. The typology of adaptation actions which the work proposes may be helpful in research carried out in countries of a similar level of preparation for adaptation to climate change.

Keywords: municipal adaptation plan; climate threats; vulnerable sectors; expenditure; coastal zone; foothills; middle lowlands (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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