Author(s): Akrivi Leka; Maria P. Papadopoulou; Aristotelis Levedis

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Keywords: City Resilience; Green Infrastructure; Local CC Adaptation Plans – LCCAP; Sustainable City

Abstract: The present paper analyses sustainable and resilient city’s strategies that can support the development of a Local Climate Change Adaptation Plan (LCCAP). Emphasis is given in the strengthening of the resilience of an urban environment through the enrichment of Green Infrastructure. Resilient cities are the result of multiple interventions and systemic change across all four key components of an urban system: infrastructure, institutions, knowledge, and ecosystems. Infrastructure and ecosystems seem to be the most important key components to enhance city’s resilience. Local authorities play a key role in public administration that is crucial for CC adaptation including land use regulation, infrastructure protection, monitoring and inspection as well as emergency planning etc. (Vogel and Henstra, 2015). Local adaptation plans can succeed by correcting and verifying pointed assessments of the key pressures and threats (critical points) that result in CC in the local area (Leka et al, 2021). LCCAP enhances a city’s resilience in order to overcome environmental degradation and the existing threats caused by CC. The outcome of this study is to highlight the interrelation between a resilient city’s strategies and the under development LCAAP’s under the scope of GI.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3850/IAHR-39WC2521711920222005

Year: 2022