Urban Ecosystem Vulnerability Assessment of Support Climate-Resilient City Development

Bibliographic Data

ID22018181
AuthorsZipan Cai (0000-0001-7219-2222, KTH Royal Institute of Technology), Jessica Page (0000-0002-5925-019X, Stockholm University), Vladimir Cvetkovic (0000-0002-5665-747X, KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
Year2021
Volume6
Issue3
Pages227-239
Publication date2021-08-19
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueUrban Planning (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2183-7635 • E-ISSN: 2183-7635
PublisherCogitatio (PUBLISHER • PT)
DOI10.17645/up.v6i3.4208
OpenAlexW3193697636
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited32

Climate change poses a threat to cities. Geospatial information and communication technology (Geo-ICT) assisted planning is increasingly being utilised to foster urban sustainability and adaptability to climate change. To fill the theoretical and practical gaps of urban adaptive planning and Geo-ICT implementation, this article presents an urban ecosystem vulnerability assessment approach using integrated socio-ecological modelling. The application of the Geo-ICT method is demonstrated in a specific case study of climate-resilient city development in Nanjing (China), aiming at helping city decision-makers understand the general geographic data processing and policy revision processes in response to hypothetical future disruptions and pressures on urban social, economic, and environmental systems. Ideally, the conceptual framework of the climate-resilient city transition proposed in this study effectively integrates the geographic data analysis, policy modification, and participatory planning. In the process of model building, we put forward the index system of urban ecosystem vulnerability assessment and use the assessment result as input data for the socio-ecological model. As a result, the model reveals the interaction processes of local land use, economy, and environment, further generating an evolving state of future land use in the studied city. The findings of this study demonstrate that socio-ecological modelling can provide guidance in adjusting the human-land interaction and climate-resilient city development from the perspective of macro policy. The decision support using urban ecosystem vulnerability assessment and quantitative system modelling can be useful for urban development under a variety of environmental change scenarios

Civil engineering · Climate change · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Geography · Geospatial analysis · Land use · Psychological resilience · Sustainability · Urban ecosystem · Urban planning · Urban resilience · Vulnerability assessment · Climate change impacts on agriculture · Computer Science · Engineering · Environmental Science · Land Use and Ecosystem Services · Remote Sensing and Land Use · Ecology