New methods for local vulnerability scenarios to heat stress to inform urban planning—case study City of Ludwigsburg/Germany
Birkmann, Jörn
Sauter, Holger
Fleischhauer, Mark
Puntub, Wiriya
Klose, Charlotte
Burkhardt, Albrecht
Göttsche, Franziska
Müller, Julia
Büter, Björn
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-021-03005-3
Persistent URL: http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gldocs-11858/11393
Persistent URL: http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gldocs-11858/11393
Birkmann, Jörn; Sauter, Holger; Garschagen, Matthias; Fleischhauer, Mark; Puntub, Wiriya; Klose, Charlotte; Burkhardt, Albrecht; Göttsche, Franziska; Laranjeira, Kevin; Müller, Julia; Büter, Björn, 2021: New methods for local vulnerability scenarios to heat stress to inform urban planning—case study City of Ludwigsburg/Germany. In: Climatic Change, Band 165, 1-2, DOI: 10.1007/s10584-021-03005-3.
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Adaptation strategies to climate change need information about present and future climatic conditions. However, next to scenarios about the future climate, scenarios about future vulnerability are essential, since also changing societal conditions fundamentally determine adaptation needs. At the international and national level, first initiatives for developing vulnerability scenarios and so-called shared socioeconomic pathways (SSPs) have been undertaken. Most of these scenarios, however, do not provide sufficient information for local scenarios and local climate risk management. There is an urgent need to develop scenarios for vulnerability at the local scale in order to complement climate change scenarios. Heat stress is seen as a key challenge in cities in the context of climate change and further urban growth. Based on the research project ZURES (ZURES 2020 website), the paper presents a new method for human vulnerability scenarios to heat stress at the very local scale for growing medium-sized cities. In contrast to global models that outline future scenarios mostly with a country-level resolution, we show a new method on how to develop spatially specific scenario information for different districts within cities, starting from the planned urban development and expansion. The method provides a new opportunity to explore how different urban development strategies and housing policies influence future human exposure and vulnerability. Opportunities and constraints of the approach are revealed. Finally, we discuss how these scenarios can inform future urban development and risk management strategies and how these could complement more global or national approaches.
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