RT Journal Article
T1 Quality of urban climate adaptation plans over time
A1 Reckien, Diana
A1 Buzasi, Attila
A1 Olazabal, Marta
A1 Spyridaki, Niki Artemis
A1 Eckersley, Peter
A1 Simoes, Sofia G.
A1 Salvia, Monica
A1 Pietrapertosa, Filomena
A1 Fokaides, Paris
A1 Goonesekera, Sascha M.
A1 Tardieu, Léa
A1 Balzan, Mario V.
A1 de Boer, Cheryl L.
A1 De Gregorio Hurtado, Sonia
A1 Feliu, Efrén
A1 Flamos, Alexandros
A1 Foley, Aoife
A1 Geneletti, Davide
A1 Grafakos, Stelios
A1 Heidrich, Oliver
A1 Ioannou, Byron
A1 Krook-Riekkola, Anna
A1 Matosovic, Marko
A1 Orru, Hans
A1 Orru, Kati
A1 Paspaldzhiev, Ivan
A1 Rižnar, Klavdija
A1 Smigaj, Magdalena
A1 Szalmáné Csete, Maria
A1 Viguié, Vincent
A1 Wejs, Anja
AB Defining and measuring progress in adaptation are important questions for climate adaptation science, policy, and practice. Here, we assess the progress of urban adaptation planning in 327 European cities between 2005 and 2020 using three ‘ADAptation plan Quality Assessment’ indices, called ADAQA-1/ 2/ 3, that combine six plan quality principles. Half of the cities have an adaptation plan and its quality significantly increased over time. However, generally, plan quality is still low in many cities. Participation and monitoring and evaluation are particularly weak aspects in urban adaptation policy, together with plan ‘consistency’. Consistency connects impacts and vulnerabilities with adaptation goals, planned measures, actions, monitoring and evaluation, and participation processes. Consistency is a key factor in the overall quality of plans. To help evaluate the quality of plans and policies and promote learning, we suggest incorporating our ADAptation plan Quality Assessment indices into the portfolio of adaptation progress assessments and tracking methodologies.
SN 2661-8001
YR 2023
FD 2023-12
LK https://hdl.handle.net/11556/4220
UL https://hdl.handle.net/11556/4220
LA eng
NO Reckien , D , Buzasi , A , Olazabal , M , Spyridaki , N A , Eckersley , P , Simoes , S G , Salvia , M , Pietrapertosa , F , Fokaides , P , Goonesekera , S M , Tardieu , L , Balzan , M V , de Boer , C L , De Gregorio Hurtado , S , Feliu , E , Flamos , A , Foley , A , Geneletti , D , Grafakos , S , Heidrich , O , Ioannou , B , Krook-Riekkola , A , Matosovic , M , Orru , H , Orru , K , Paspaldzhiev , I , Rižnar , K , Smigaj , M , Szalmáné Csete , M , Viguié , V & Wejs , A 2023 , ' Quality of urban climate adaptation plans over time ' , npj Urban Sustainability , vol. 3 , no. 1 , 13 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-023-00085-1
NO Publisher Copyright: © 2023, The Author(s).
NO This work would not have been possible without the collaboration of many fellow researchers that helped to compile and analyze urban climate plans of the cities in the data sample. This collaboration runs under the name EURO-LCP Initiative ( www.lcp-initiative.eu ). We thank all members of the EURO-LCP Initiative for their fruitful collaboration over the years, in particular those members that are not co-authors of this paper: Jon Marco Church; Sergiu Vasilie; Nataša Belšak Šel; Eva Streberova; Corinna Altenburg; Viera Bastakova; lana Coste and Eliška Lorencová. Thanks also go to Nikolas Afxentiou, who helped developing the Climate Change Adaptation Scoring tool ( https://www.lcp-initiative.eu/climate-change-scoring-tool/ ). DR’s work is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101019707 (2021–2024), No. 101036458 (2021–2025), and a JPI Urban Europe Grant, funded by NWO grant agreement No. 438.21.445 (2022–2025). MO’s research is supported by María de Maeztu excellence accreditation 2018-2022 (Ref. MDM-2017-0714), funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/; and by the Basque Government through the BERC 2022-2025 programme. The work of MS and FP is supported by the National Biodiversity Future Centre 2022-2025 (id. code CN000033), funded by the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR Mission 4, Component 2, Investment 1.4).
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