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Volltext HORIZON 2020 Publikation
Titel (primär) Report on assessment of drivers and pressures leading to urban challenges, across the ULLs, including spatial and temporal components. Deliverable D2.1. for EU H2020 REGREEN project
Autor Fletcher, D.; Zhao, B.; Grandin, G.; Yang, J.; Barra, M.; Ruzic, M.; Vinther Larsen, L.; Iversen, S.; Xu, Y.; Chen, C.; Banzhaf, E.; Knopp, J.; Luo, X.; Wu, W.; Vesuviano, G.; Jones, L.
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
Department SUSOZ
Seite bis 41
Sprache englisch
Horizon 2020
Projektname Fostering nature-based solutions for smart, green and healthy urban transitions in Europe and China
Akronym REGREEN
Grant Number
Erscheinungsdatum 30.09.2020
European Union (EU); Euratom
Euratom research and training programme 2014-2018
Abstract This document forms part of the context‐setting for the REGREEN project, and describes the main
drivers and pressures associated with urbanization which are the focus of the Urban Living Labs (ULLs)
within the project. The pressures are primarily environmental, but shaped by social and economic
factors. The report illustrates how social factors interact with green, blue and grey infrastructure to
shape the opportunities for implementing NBS to address these challenges.
Contributors to this report come from WP2 (challenges), WP3 (mapping and modelling) and all six
ULLs: Paris, Aarhus, Velika Gorica, Shanghai, Beijing and Ningbo.
Each ULL ranks and describes the main pressures facing them. Air pollution, noise and heat are the
top three pressures in Beijing and Velika Gorica. In Aarhus and Paris, the top three are biodiversity
loss, water quality and flooding. In the other two Chinese ULLs, Ningbo and Shanghai, the top three
issues are air pollution, water quality and flooding. These pressures are explored in more detail,
including the health and societal impacts they cause.
Urban sprawl is separately addressed as a pressure, illustrated by a historical analysis of the rate of
change in urban extent in all six ULLs since 1985. The expansion of urban area in the Chinese ULLs is
substantially greater than any of the European ULLs.
Social and economic factors, which influence vulnerability and exposure to pressures, are also
discussed. The literature suggests that age is the main risk factor for negative health impacts from
high‐temperatures, while deprivation is a risk factor for PM2.5 associated health impacts.
The report discusses the important role of spatial and temporal variability in pressures and in the
potential of NBS to address these pressures. This highlights the importance of capturing spatial and
temporal variation in data representing the pressures, but also that it is critical to have appropriate
contextual data, particularly those data relating to people (e.g. sociodemographic and socioeconomic
data) in order to provide useful spatially and temporally explicit representations of the challenges that
are produced in urban environments.
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Fletcher, D., Zhao, B., Grandin, G., Yang, J., Barra, M., Ruzic, M., Vinther Larsen, L., Iversen, S., Xu, Y., Chen, C., Banzhaf, E., Knopp, J., Luo, X., Wu, W., Vesuviano, G., Jones, L. (2020):
Report on assessment of drivers and pressures leading to urban challenges, across the ULLs, including spatial and temporal components. Deliverable D2.1. for EU H2020 REGREEN project
REGREEN - Nature-Based Solutions, 41 pp.