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Flooding Vulnerability and Adaptation: Spanish policy relevance in Swedish climate adaptation under RCP 8.5 Conditions

Johansson, Ludvig LU (2023) SGEL36 20231
Department of Human Geography
Abstract
This study sets out to investigate the vulnerability to coastal flooding in the Spanish city of Valencia, aiming to evaluate its adaptive capacity over time to understand how successful lessons may be learned and transferred to a Swedish planning perspective. The study utilized various indexing systems to analyze and measure the climate and multivariable vulnerability as well as the adaptive capacity. Supplemented with qualitative interviews with expert stakeholders and various analyses for interpretation and processing of data. The study found medium levels of vulnerability in the study area and an overall positive increase in adaptive capacity overtime despite severe climate intensification accompanied by other adverse events. The study... (More)
This study sets out to investigate the vulnerability to coastal flooding in the Spanish city of Valencia, aiming to evaluate its adaptive capacity over time to understand how successful lessons may be learned and transferred to a Swedish planning perspective. The study utilized various indexing systems to analyze and measure the climate and multivariable vulnerability as well as the adaptive capacity. Supplemented with qualitative interviews with expert stakeholders and various analyses for interpretation and processing of data. The study found medium levels of vulnerability in the study area and an overall positive increase in adaptive capacity overtime despite severe climate intensification accompanied by other adverse events. The study concludes on identified policy and practice implications which despite simplified study methodology has found to potentially complement not only Swedish urban planning in both hard, soft and collaborative practice in the adaptation to coastal inundation. The results of the study are not solely restricted to the Swedish context and may have policy implications in other coastal cities susceptible to the effects of intensified coastal inundation. (Less)
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author
Johansson, Ludvig LU
supervisor
organization
course
SGEL36 20231
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Climate change, Risk analysis, Urban planning, Vulnerability analysis, Adaptive capacity, GIS, Coastal inundation, Statistical analysis
language
English
id
9134730
date added to LUP
2024-07-26 13:49:27
date last changed
2024-07-26 13:49:27
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  abstract     = {{This study sets out to investigate the vulnerability to coastal flooding in the Spanish city of Valencia, aiming to evaluate its adaptive capacity over time to understand how successful lessons may be learned and transferred to a Swedish planning perspective. The study utilized various indexing systems to analyze and measure the climate and multivariable vulnerability as well as the adaptive capacity. Supplemented with qualitative interviews with expert stakeholders and various analyses for interpretation and processing of data. The study found medium levels of vulnerability in the study area and an overall positive increase in adaptive capacity overtime despite severe climate intensification accompanied by other adverse events. The study concludes on identified policy and practice implications which despite simplified study methodology has found to potentially complement not only Swedish urban planning in both hard, soft and collaborative practice in the adaptation to coastal inundation. The results of the study are not solely restricted to the Swedish context and may have policy implications in other coastal cities susceptible to the effects of intensified coastal inundation.}},
  author       = {{Johansson, Ludvig}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Flooding Vulnerability and Adaptation: Spanish policy relevance in Swedish climate adaptation under RCP 8.5 Conditions}},
  year         = {{2023}},
}