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Awarded publications will be free to access via Taylor & Francis links until December 31st.
The article Vulnerability, impacts and assessment of climate change on Jakarta and Venice (International Journal of River Basin Management Volume 16, 2018 - Issue 4) by Arianna Varrani and Michael Nones from the Hydrology and Hydrodynamics Department, has been hand-selected by Taylor & Francis Group in honor of World Reef Day, World Environment Day and World Ocean Day to coincide with the themes of these days: Sustainable Coastlines, Ecosystem Restoration and Conservation Action. The mentioned paper was qualified to the subject Conservation Action descibing the research which examines the impact climate has had on oceans, and conservation tactics that can protect the world’s oceans.
Jakarta and Venice, what do these two metropolitan cities have in common? we ask Arianna and Michael
Why did you choose these seemingly unrelated places for your research?
A: The paper is a follow-up of an assignment when I was a student at Newcastle University. The topic was Assestment of Climate Change on Jakarta and (another city chosen by the student)...as Italian, and having studied in Padua, I chose Venice for comparison.
What do they have in common in the field of climate change?
M: Both cities are threatened by climate change in different ways: among others subsidence and sea-level rise. Jakarta is now facing a similar situation in terms of subsidence, that Venice faced in the '70s, therefore we decided to compare them. The actual city governance is much different between the two case studies and is driven by the socio-economic situation.
A: For the future, a good institutional framework should adopt a mix of diverse arrangements, combining strict regulation, eco-innovations and up-to-date approaches and modelling tools to improve the resilience of coastal cities to flooding events in the developing world, and even in developed cities. Multilevel social networks and information sharing can result crucial to develop legal, political and economic frameworks necessary to enhance social and ecological resilience. Planning policies focussed on climate change adaptation need to be considered as an integral approach to improve socio-economic development and equity throughout the world, learning from past case studies and literature that already exists.
M: Moreover, to address deep uncertainties correlated to climate change, policymakers and system designers should use approaches developed to create adaptive plans, which are flexible and can respond when new information appears or when conditions in the environment change.
Congratulations!
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Arianna Varrani fot. print screen PR
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prof. Michael Nones, fot. print screen PR
