Mobile Phone Data for Urban Climate Change Adaptation: Reviewing Applications, Opportunities and Key Challenges

Sébastien Dujardin, Damien Jacques, Jessica Steele and Catherine Linard
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Sébastien Dujardin: Geography Department, University of Namur, Rue de Bruxelles, 61, 5000 Namur, Belgium
Damien Jacques: Dalberg Data Insights, Place du Champ de Mars 5, 1050 Brussel, Belgium
Jessica Steele: Geography and Environmental Sciences, University of Southampton, University Road, Building 44, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
Catherine Linard: Geography Department, University of Namur, Rue de Bruxelles, 61, 5000 Namur, Belgium

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 4, 1-17

Abstract: Climate change places cities at increasing risk and poses a serious challenge for adaptation. As a response, novel sources of data combined with data-driven logics and advanced spatial modelling techniques have the potential for transformative change in the role of information in urban planning. However, little practical guidance exists on the potential opportunities offered by mobile phone data for enhancing adaptive capacities in urban areas. Building upon a review of spatial studies mobilizing mobile phone data, this paper explores the opportunities offered by such digital information for providing spatially-explicit assessments of urban vulnerability, and shows the ways these can help developing more dynamic strategies and tools for urban planning and disaster risk management. Finally, building upon the limitations of mobile phone data analysis, it discusses the key urban governance challenges that need to be addressed for supporting the emergence of transformative change in current planning frameworks.

Keywords: mobile phone data; adaptation; vulnerability; urban planning; climate change; disaster risk management; governance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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