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SUMMARY:Climate change and cities: A systemic analysis of climate change i
 mpacts on the urban function and urban economy - Emmanouil Tranos
DTSTART:20101012T110000Z
DTEND:20101012T120000Z
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CONTACT:paul haynes
DESCRIPTION:This paper introduces a systematic approach for the analysis o
 f the climate change impacts on the urban function and urban economy. Whil
 e nowadays climate change is at the forefront of scientific research\, sur
 prisingly little attention has been paid on the urban scale and least of a
 ll on the indirect effects of the climate change on cities. The direct imp
 acts of climate change on urban areas may be positive or negative. The neg
 ative effects may be chronic or may materialise as a consequence of climat
 ic extreme events. Urban areas will adapt to a greater or lesser extent to
  these external drivers\, resulting in an increasing climate signal in the
  trajectory of urban development. Apart from the direct impacts of the cli
 mate change on the physical urban environment\, attention here is also foc
 used on the indirect climate change impacts and higher order effects on th
 e economic and social urban environment: different elements of the climate
  change act as modes for the emergence of different and diverse indirect u
 rban impacts\, which span across a wide range of socio-economic elements o
 f the urban systems. The systematic mapping and the analysis of the interd
 ependencies among the different elements of the climate change and the dir
 ect and the indirect impacts and the higher order effects result in a robu
 st and valuable framework not only for understanding these processes\, but
  also for understanding and evaluating the adaptation mechanisms of cities
  towards climate change. The above provides the necessary framework for ou
 r next step: the dynamic spatial simulation of cities considering climate 
 impacts and adaptation. The latter will expand our understanding of the co
 mplex interactions between climate impacts and cities. 
LOCATION:Laundress Lane Seminar Room 1
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