Urban Resilience, Climate Change and Adaptation. Coping with Heat Islands in the Dense Urban Area of Athens

Urban Resilience, Climate Change and Adaptation. Coping with Heat Islands in the Dense Urban Area of Athens


 


Othengrafen, Frank; Serraos, Konstantinos (Eds.): Urban Resilience, Climate Change and Adaptation. Coping with Heat Islands in the Dense Urban Area of Athens, Greece. Hannover : Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institut für Umweltplanung, 2018, 181 S.

Contents


Preface
Frank Othengrafen, Konstantinos Serraos

Part 1: Resilience, Climate Change and Adaptation

Introduction: Resilience, Climate Change and Adaptation
Lena Greinke, Meike Levin-Keitel, Frank Othengrafen

Lessons from local resilience planning in European cities: The case of the Smart Mature Resilience project
Vasileios Latinos, Jose Sarriegi

Presuming a nature in the context of resilience
Antonis Chazapis, Dimitris Loukos

Understanding Good and Bad Resilience: The Case of Greek Cities in the Economic Crisis Era
Kalliopi Sapountzaki

Aspects of resilience in the reconstruction of Kalamata (Greece) after the earthquake disaster of 1986
Miranda Dandulaki

Tackling Climate Change and Urban Resilience in the City of Athens
Eleni Myrivili, Anthi Christou


Part 2: Coping with heat islands in the dense urban area of Athens, Greece – Five concepts and integrated needs of action

Introduction: Coping with heat islands in the dense urban area of Athens, Greece – Five concepts and integrated needs of action
Lena Greinke, Meike Levin-Keitel, Frank Othengrafen

Green Networks Exarchia
Ole Badelt, Philipp Heuer, Mamali M., Kapiota A., Ntouni E.

Transforming Heat Islands into Neat Islands
Jonas Lamberg, Filip Snieg

Inclusive Green for Tackling the UHI-Effect in Athens
Amel Ben Sidhom, Hanna Jordan, Eleni Papaevangelou

The Victoria Square Neighbourhood: Enhancing Resilience by Social Networking
Christin Busch, Johanna Johncock, Shelagh-Katerina B., Antonis K.

Wind of Change Empowering a community to tackle
Charlotte Muhl, Ina Engelke


Neueste Zugänge

  • Inclusive Green for Tackling the UHI-Effect in Athens 
    Sedhom, Amel Ben; Jordan, Hanna; Papaevangelou, Eleni (Hannover : Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institut für Umweltplanung, 2018)
    The city of Athens is characterised by urbanisation and migratory waves. In relation to the changing climate with an overall increasing temperature and a significantly higher amount of extreme events, the city is especially ...
  • Green Networks Exarchia 
    Badelt, Ole; Heuer, Philipp; Mamali, M.; Kapiota, A.; Ntouni, E. (Hannover : Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institut für Umweltplanung, 2018)
    The phenomenon of urban heat islands (UHI) in Athens is well documented (LIVADA, S ANTAMOURIS and ASSIMAKOPOULOS 2007; MIHALAKAKOU , S ANTAMOURIS , P APANIKOLAOU , CARTALIS and T SANGRASSOULIS 2004). Studies range from ...
  • Transforming Heat Islands into Neat Islands 
    Lamberg, Jonas; Snieg, Filip (Hannover : Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institut für Umweltplanung, 2018)
    The resilience of cities has become an important topic to be considered by authorities in planning (MYRIVILI 2017, oral). Nowadays, many cities need to face various problems caused by environment, such as earthquakes, heat ...
  • Wind of Change Empowering a community to tackle 
    Muhl, Charlotte; Engelke, Ina (Hannover : Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institut für Umweltplanung, 2018)
    Athens is exposed to high heat stress that has negative effects on its residents. This paper presents an approach to tackle the problem by empowering the community and strengthening local solidarity. The area examined in ...
  • The Victoria Square Neighbourhood: Enhancing Resilience by Social Networking 
    Busch, Christina; Johncock, Johanna; Boucoyannis, Shelagh-Katerina; Koulouthros, Antonis (Hannover : Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institut für Umweltplanung, 2018)
    Athens is climatically characterised by a Mediterranean climate with mild and rainy winters and warm summers. In the summer the average temperature is 35°C, with many days exceeding 40°C. Athens is often struck by heat ...
  • Resilience, Climate Change and Adaptation 
    Greinke, Lena; Levin-Keitel, Meike; Othengrafen, Frank (Hannover : Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institut für Umweltplanung, 2018)
    In Germany and other European countries, the sustainable development of cities and regions is steadily discussed in relation to the concept of resilience (BIRKMANN et al. 2013), especially with regard to the ongoing global ...
  • Understanding Good and Bad Resilience: The Case of Greek Cities in the Economic Crisis Era 
    Sapountzaki, Kalliopi (Hannover : Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institut für Umweltplanung, 2018)
    Government debt crisis and recession in Greece cause decline of the welfare state. This has been the result of the attempt of the Greek Government to reduce fiscal and macro-economic vulnerability to debt crisis through ...
  • Presuming a nature in the context of resilience 
    Chazapis, Antonis; Loukos, Dimitris (Hannover : Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institut für Umweltplanung, 2018)
    Over the last decades, the debate on climate change has brought back the everlasting discussion on the conceptualization of nature and the delimitation of our relationship with it. The emergence of „destruction“ has been ...
  • Coping with heat islands in the dense urban area of Athens, Greece – Five concepts and integrated needs of action 
    Greinke, Lena; Levin-Keitel, Meike; Othengrafen, Frank (Hannover : Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institut für Umweltplanung, 2018)
    Global climate change creates new challenges for urban and regional development all over the world. Adapting to a changing climate requires dealing with multiple uncertainties and complexity in order to allow proactive ...
  • Preface 
    Othengrafen, Frank; Serraos, Konstantinos (Hannover : Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institut für Umweltplanung, 2018)
    [no abstract]
  • Lessons from local resilience planning in European cities: The case of the Smart Mature Resilience project 
    Latinos, Vasileios; Sarriegi, Jose (Hannover : Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institut für Umweltplanung, 2018)
    Urban resilience development at local level requires skills and methodologies that are often not at hand in city administrations. In order to enhance cities’ capacity to resist, absorb and recover from the effects of climate ...
  • Tackling Climate Change and Urban Resilience in the City of Athens 
    Myrivili, Eleni; Christou, Anthi (Hannover : Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institut für Umweltplanung, 2018)
    The City of Athens, a venerable yet intricate city of near 700.000 residents, part of a 3.75 million people urban area, is for several years now facing severe challenges. Those include an ongoing socio-economic crisis, ...
  • Aspects of resilience in the reconstruction of Kalamata (Greece) after the earthquake disaster of 1986 
    Dandulaki, Miranda (Hannover : Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institut für Umweltplanung, 2018)
    The paper discusses the case the reconstruction of Kalamata city, Greece, after the 1986 earthquake disaster, focussing on urban resilience during the phases of response, recovery and reconstruction. In doing so, it revisits ...
  • Urban Resilience, Climate Change and Adaptation. Coping with Heat Islands in the Dense Urban Area of Athens, Greece 
    Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institut für Umweltplanung (Hannover : Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institut für Umweltplanung, 2018)
    [no abstract]