2011 Urban Response to Climate Change in Asia-Understanding Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies
| What | Asia, Workshop |
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| When |
Nov 10, 2011 03:00 PM
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Nov 16, 2011 01:00 AM |
| Where | New Taipei City, Taiwan |
| Contact Name | Ms. Hui-Chen Lin |
| Contact Phone | +886-2-2674-8189 ext.67347 |
| Attendees |
Young scholars of SARCS member countries and related scholars from other countries |
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Objectives
• Review and share knowledge about the current state of understanding about climate change mitigation and adaptation in Asia cities.
• Compare mitigating and adaption strategies to climate change across different countries or regions in Asia.
• Indentify key issues of urban response to climate change in Asia.
• Develop draft manuscripts on the identified issues.
• Promote future collaboration of research on urbanization and climate change in SARCS member countries.
Topics
• Local governance regimes for mitigation and adaptation
• Spatial planning
• Community-based adaptation
• Understanding different approaches to climate change assessment
• Urban vulnerability
Four sessions are proposed for the workshop
• Session 1: Urban spatial planning for climate change adaptation and mitigation.
• Session 2: Urban densities and energy use.
• Session 3: Urban adaptation and the role of local governance regimes.
• Session 4: Vulnerability assessment of coastal cities.
