Havet: en attraktiv sårbarhet
(2021) SGEL36 20211Department of Human Geography
- Abstract
- The sea level is rising and putting infrastructure and people living by the coast at risk, yet there is a global trend of waterfront redevelopment, where cities and municipalities choose to turn old harbors into attractive housing and offices despite the fact that this increases their vulnerability to flooding. The aim of this paper is to understand why Swedish municipalities decide to redevelop old harbors, and how they view and work with climate adaptation in waterfront redevelopment projects. To do this, a case study comparing Nyhamnen in Malmö with Oceanhamnen in Helsingborg has been conducted, based on five semi-structured interviews and official planning documents. The result was analyzed through a theoretical framework concerning... (More)
- The sea level is rising and putting infrastructure and people living by the coast at risk, yet there is a global trend of waterfront redevelopment, where cities and municipalities choose to turn old harbors into attractive housing and offices despite the fact that this increases their vulnerability to flooding. The aim of this paper is to understand why Swedish municipalities decide to redevelop old harbors, and how they view and work with climate adaptation in waterfront redevelopment projects. To do this, a case study comparing Nyhamnen in Malmö with Oceanhamnen in Helsingborg has been conducted, based on five semi-structured interviews and official planning documents. The result was analyzed through a theoretical framework concerning sustainable development, and incremental and transformative adaptation, as well as previous research about the safety versus scenery conflict and competitiveness. The analysis shows that municipalities motivate waterfront redevelopment as a solution to being sustainable and saving arable land from exploitation, when expanding the city to meet the demands of new housing and office spaces. They also view waterfront redevelopment as a way to strengthen their competitiveness against other cities and municipalities. By redeveloping old harbors they can attract new citizens and companies which has a higher priority than avoiding places vulnerable to flooding as long as the need of climate adaptation is considered. When it comes to climate adaptation this study shows that climate adaptation still is incremental, but has become more proactive since previous studies were conducted in 2015. (Less)
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- author
- Strömqvist, Lina LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- SGEL36 20211
- year
- 2021
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- waterfront redevelopment, sea level rise, climate adaptation, urban planning, sustainable development, safety vs scenery conflict
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9062947
- date added to LUP
- 2021-09-24 15:48:53
- date last changed
- 2021-09-24 15:48:53
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abstract = {{The sea level is rising and putting infrastructure and people living by the coast at risk, yet there is a global trend of waterfront redevelopment, where cities and municipalities choose to turn old harbors into attractive housing and offices despite the fact that this increases their vulnerability to flooding. The aim of this paper is to understand why Swedish municipalities decide to redevelop old harbors, and how they view and work with climate adaptation in waterfront redevelopment projects. To do this, a case study comparing Nyhamnen in Malmö with Oceanhamnen in Helsingborg has been conducted, based on five semi-structured interviews and official planning documents. The result was analyzed through a theoretical framework concerning sustainable development, and incremental and transformative adaptation, as well as previous research about the safety versus scenery conflict and competitiveness. The analysis shows that municipalities motivate waterfront redevelopment as a solution to being sustainable and saving arable land from exploitation, when expanding the city to meet the demands of new housing and office spaces. They also view waterfront redevelopment as a way to strengthen their competitiveness against other cities and municipalities. By redeveloping old harbors they can attract new citizens and companies which has a higher priority than avoiding places vulnerable to flooding as long as the need of climate adaptation is considered. When it comes to climate adaptation this study shows that climate adaptation still is incremental, but has become more proactive since previous studies were conducted in 2015.}},
author = {{Strömqvist, Lina}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Havet: en attraktiv sårbarhet}},
year = {{2021}},
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