Verona Adapt. Modelling as a Planning Instrument: Applying a Climate-Responsive Approach in Verona, Italy

Marika Tomasi, Sara Favargiotti, Martina van Lierop, Lorenzo Giovannini and Andrea Zonato
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Marika Tomasi: Kent School of Architecture and Planning, University of Kent, Canterbury CT2 7NR, UK
Sara Favargiotti: Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, University of Trento, 38123 Trento, Italy
Martina van Lierop: TUM Strategic Landscape Planning and Management, School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich, 85354 Freising, Germany
Lorenzo Giovannini: Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, University of Trento, 38123 Trento, Italy
Andrea Zonato: Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, University of Trento, 38123 Trento, Italy

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 12, 1-28

Abstract: In response to the global challenges brought on by climate change, cities around the world are adapting, innovating through nature-based strategies for sustainable development. Climate adaptation requires new interdisciplinary approaches in which different disciplines as well as research and practice proactively co-create and collaborate on adaptation to reduce the ongoing effects of anthropogenic climate change. Although awareness on climate adaptation is on the rise, new approaches for urban development are still in development. Moreover, existing approaches mainly focus on local-scale levels or lack a crossover with urban and landscape planning. The present contribution offers an example of an integrated approach bridging urban climatology, landscape planning, and governance to assess and develop climate adaptation solutions linking city and district levels. The city of Verona was taken as a case study to test this approach and its implications for the development of a green and blue infrastructure with a climate-responsive master plan for the district of Verona South. Through critical reflection on the application of the approach to the case study, we aimed to identify its potentials and barriers. Based on this reflection, we provide herein recommendations on how climate modelling can be integrated into planning, as well as on how urban planners and urban climatologists can support each other in making credible and salient climate adaptation solutions.

Keywords: urban climate adaptation; multifunctional landscape design; urban climatology; nature-based solutions; blue and green infrastructure; ecosystem services; meteorological modelling; interdisciplinarity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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