Fukuoka: Adapting to climate change through urban green space and the built environment?
| Autor: | Yuriko Hayabuchi, Asako Yamaguchi, Hiroyuki Kanekiyo, Kayoko Kondo, Leslie Mabon |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Sociology and Political Science Population 0211 other engineering and technologies 0507 social and economic geography Climate change Climate change adaptation Context (language use) 02 engineering and technology Development 7. Clean energy Article 12. Responsible consumption Urban planning 11. Sustainability Applied research education Environmental planning Built environment education.field_of_study Fukuoka 05 social sciences 1. No poverty 021107 urban & regional planning Urban climate change governance Urban Studies Geography 13. Climate action Tourism Leisure and Hospitality Management Private sector involvement Urban greenspace 050703 geography |
| Zdroj: | Cities (London, England) |
| ISSN: | 0264-2751 |
| Popis: | This paper profiles Fukuoka City in Kyushu, Japan. We focus on the city's local climate change adaptation policies, and in particular the role of urban and greenspace planning in facilitating adaptation actions within Fukuoka. Fukuoka is a humid subtropical city which is currently experiencing significant population and economic growth. It has also made comparatively rigorous advances in climate adaptation, in a country context where local governments have been criticised for focusing more on mitigation. Fukuoka hence may yield lessons for other rapidly urbanising subtropical Asian cities. We illustrate that Fukuoka has a long tradition of science-policy connection towards the creation of a liveable urban environment. This creates a favourable research and policy infrastructure for adaptation, in particular mitigation of heat risk. This is evidenced in consideration of climate issues within the city's greenspace plans since the 1990s, and in an extensive body of underpinning applied research from local institutions into urban thermal environments in particular. Fukuoka's green terraced ACROS building has come to symbolise adaptation via the built environment, and has been followed by the emergence of further green roofs and through citizen and private sector involvement in smaller-scale greening actions. We caution that challenges remain around connecting different sections of local governments, and in maintaining climate and environmental imperatives in the face of ongoing development and expansion pressures. Highlights • Fukuoka among early adopters of municipal climate change adaptation action in Japan • Fukuoka demonstrates adaptation responses for an expanding sub-tropical Asian city. • Understanding of wind corridors and cooling by greening informs Fukuoka city plans. • Adaptation via planning continues much longer trend of liveable urban environment. • Challenges remain in balancing economic development pressures with climate actions. |
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