Webinar “Thoughts on a Spatial Climate Plan for Alpine cities”
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- Webinar “Thoughts on a Spatial Climate Plan for Alpine cities”
- 2024-11-25T09:00:00+01:00
- 2024-11-25T10:30:00+01:00
- The Alpine Climate Board (ACB) of the Alpine Convention is pleased to invite you to a webinar in which Theresa Janesch (graduate in the master’s programme of Spatial Planning, Technical University of Vienna; currently working at RPK-ZT in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, AT), a spatial planner specialising in the cross-cutting issues of climate change and spatial development, will take the floor. Together with her supervisor Sibylla Zech, Head of Research Unit of Regional Planning and Regional Development at the Technical University of Vienna, Theresa Janesch will give us insights into her master’s thesis titled “Help, the Alps are Glowing! Thoughts on a Spatial Climate Plan for the City of Lienz”.
The aim of the thesis was to develop the first draft of a spatial climate plan using the city of Lienz (AT) as a case study. In this context, a spatial climate plan is understood as planning that leads to integrated measures for mitigation and adaptation to climate change as well as spatial structures that enable climate-friendly behaviour. This first draft is intended to serve as a starting point for a discussion on supplementing spatial planning instruments.
Central ideas from the thesis:
- Due to the expected effects of climate change, a transformation of spatial structures in the Alpine region – including those in Alpine towns – is urgently needed.
- Forward-looking urban planning can make a crucial contribution to this transformation.
- Although climate plans for Alpine towns already exist, there is often a lack of integrated measures with a spatial reference and a lack of localisation of these measures.
- A transformation towards a climate-friendly urban structure can only be initiated if the spatial measures are specifically localised on a plan.
The most important outcome of the spatial climate plan is the mapping of spatial structures and measures that can not only support climate-friendly behaviour but are also effective in climate mitigation and adaptation. The vision uses maps to show what a climate-friendly spatial structure for the city of Lienz could look like. The ideas are illustrated with visualisations and a selection of 60 specific measures. In addition, the effect of the localised measures is reflected in a comparison of selected spatial structures of the city of Lienz in the current and planned state.