Project Details
Projekt
Constellations (Policies, Planning and Governance)
Subject Area
Urbanism, Spatial Planning, Transportation and Infrastructure Planning, Landscape Planning
Term
from 2012 to 2016
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 197674476
Urban planners and policy-makers do not possess sufficient information to cope adequately with the challenges of urban heat stress. The core objective of RM 5.1 is to identify promising approaches to good governance in planning and decision-making tied to the challenge of urban heat stress. Identifying appropriate mitigation and adaptation strategies requires an awareness of the roles played by various actors, institutions, legal and economic contexts. It is necessary to identify the forces driving as well as impeding radical, incremental and additive innovation processes. Making use of the data, hypotheses and interim outcomes of the other RMs, we explore the constellations that deal best with urban heat stress. Many good practices are emerging, but our empirical and theoretical understandings remain insufficient. A comprehensive methodology known as “Constellation Analysis” will be applied to identify changes in planning and governance that can contribute to mitigating and adapting to urban heat stress. This interdisciplinary bridging concept involves understanding not only the natural environment, but also the relationships among human stakeholders, technical developments, and control systems (e.g. regulations, taxes). In order to address the heat island problem, questions and hypotheses will be examined at different scales in order to identify optimal governance constellations. It is taken as a given that in Berlin the relevant actors, instruments, and contexts are still insufficient inter-connected to meet the challenges of urban heat stress.
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