PA42A:
Climate Adaptation, Mitigation, and Resiliency Toolkits for Cities I


Session ID#: 7895

Session Description:
Today, ~54% of the world’s population lives in cities, a proportion that is expected to increase to ~66% by 2050.  Cities represent the dominant source of human CO2 emissions, roughly 70%.  This is nearly triple the available net terrestrial or oceanic carbon sinks.   Thus, cities need tools to better understand how to reduce their emissions and improve their resiliency and adaptation approaches to a changing climate and related extreme events.  This session is designed to help researchers share information about their climate-related urban projects, including how the project was scoped with stakeholders, lessons-learned and best practices, information and tools used and what they wished they had, and further research recommendations.  From this session, we hope to identify common sets of information, tools, and principles that could help researchers and cities deal with these climate-related issues and help identify scientific investments still needed to improve these efforts.
Primary Convener:  Jack D Fellows, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Conveners:  Anthony Janetos, Boston University, The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, Boston, MA, United States, Donald J Wuebbles, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Atmospheric Sciences, Urbana, United States and Budhendra L Bhaduri, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Chairs:  Jack D Fellows, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States and Donald J Wuebbles, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Atmospheric Sciences, Urbana, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Anthony Janetos, Boston University, The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, Boston, MA, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • H - Hydrology
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • IGBP: International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme -
Index Terms:

1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1632 Land cover change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1637 Regional climate change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
6334 Regional planning [POLICY SCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Integrating Infrastructure-Relevant Climate Projections into City Planning: Learning from Boulder CO, Austin TX and Washington DC (Invited) (58718)
Anne Marie K Stoner, Texas Tech University, Climate Science Center, Lubbock, TX, United States and Katharine Hayhoe, Texas Tech University, Climate Center, Lubbock, TX, United States
Determinants of urban resource use and resilience: a comprehensive framework (65099)
Patricia Romero-Lankao1, Patrick Bourgeron2, David J Gochis3, Dale Scott Rothman3 and Olga Wilhelmi4, (1)National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, (2)INSTAAR, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, United States
Integrated Framework for an Urban Climate Adaptation Tool (Invited) (65392)
Olufemi Omitaomu1, Esther S Parish2, Phil Nugent3, Rui Mei3, Linda Sylvester3, Kathleen Ernst3 and Mariya Absar3, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Computational Urban Sciences, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (3)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Graceful Failure, Engineering, and Planning for Extremes: The Engineering for Climate Extremes Partnership (ECEP) (83175)
Cindy L Bruyere, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Mesoscale & Microscale Meteorology Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, Mari R Tye, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, Greg J Holland, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and James Done, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Toolbox for Urban Mobility Simulation: High Resolution Population Dynamics for Global Cities (79728)
Budhendra L Bhaduri1, Wui Lu1, Cheng Liu2, Gautam Thakur1 and Rajasekar Karthik1, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
Safe Shores and Resilient Transit Corridors: Using Science, Design, and Stakeholder Partnerships to Address Connecticut’s Coastal Vulnerabilities (85050)
Rebecca French1, Alexander J. Felson2, Elizabeth Kirmmse1 and Katherine Hagemann1, (1)University of Connecticut, Connecticut Institute for Resilience and Climate Adaptation, Groton, CT, United States, (2)Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and School of Architecture, New Haven, CT, United States
Translating Knowledge into Action: Supporting Adaptation in Australia’s Coastal Zone through Information Provision and Decision Support (86132)
Jean Patricia Palutikof1, David Rissik2, Fahim N Tonmoy2 and Sarah Boulter2, (1)National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility, Griffith University, QLD, Australia, (2)National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility, Griffith University, Australia
Framework for Vulnerability Assessment of Coastal Infrastructure (85752)
Patrick S Obrien, US Army Corps of Engineers, San Francisco District, San Francisco, CA, United States, Hans R Moritz, US Army Corps of Engineers, Portland District, Portland, OR, United States and Kathleen D White, US Army Corps of Engineers,, Institute for Water Resources, Washington, DC, United States

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