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1. Greening America's Smaller Legacy Cities

   Resúmenes de políticas públicas
   Abril 2024
   By Joseph Schilling, Catherine Tumber, and Gabi Velasco

   Because urban centers generate most of the planet’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, cities often lead in implementing “green” initiatives to conserve resources, ensure clean air and...

2. Anticipated but Unpredictable

   Exploratory Scenario Planning for Climate Migration in Cleveland/Cuyahoga County, Ohio
   Documentos de trabajo
   Agosto 2023
   Terry Schwarz, Joseph Schilling, Violet Sulka/Hewes, Catherine Tumber, and Nicholas B. Rajkovich

   Anticipated but Unpredictable: Exploratory Scenario Planning for Climate Migration in Cleveland/Cuyahoga County, Ohio is a case study that explores the process and outcomes of a climate migration...

3. Toward the Next Mode of Practice for Climate Urbanism

   Understanding and Preventing Greening-Induced Displacement
   Documentos de trabajo
   Octubre 2023
   James J.T. Connolly, Isabelle Anguelovski, and Emilia Oscilowicz

   The contemporary practice of green climate urbanism faces an acute challenge. Even as the capacity grows in cities to implement increased green climate mitigation and adaptation measures, so does the...

4. Developing a Quantitative Spatial Economic Model to Evaluate Urban Water Conservation Policies in Denver

   Documentos de trabajo
   Abril 2023
   Juan Carlos G. Lopez

   This paper develops a quantitative spatial model for the city of Denver to consider policy proposals to reduce urban water demand using data on land use and water demand by households and business...

5. Integrating Land Use and Water Management

   Resúmenes de políticas públicas
   Agosto 2022
   By Erin Rugland

   Land without water cannot support urban form of any scale, yet many land use decisions are made without regard to water, and vice versa. This Policy Brief introduces readers to best management...

6. Urban Growth Boundaries for Watershed Health

   Managing the Impacts of Peripheral Land Uses on Water Quantity and Quality
   Documentos de trabajo
   Noviembre 2022
   Lance Gloss

   This working paper considers how the common land use planning tool of establishing Urban Growth Boundaries (UGBs) can better integrate water management. Three case studies and mixed methods research...

7. What Do We Do with the Land Left Behind?

   XSP for Floodplain Buyout Parcels
   Documentos de trabajo
   Agosto 2022
   Kelly Leilani Main, Risa Hiser, Victoria Woods, Osamu Kumasaka, Maggie Tsang, and Isaac Stein

   Flood risk is increasing across the country due to extreme precipitation, outdated infrastructure, poor development practices, and climate change. As climate impacts like storm surge and sea level...

8. Using Green and Blue Infrastructure for Urban Flood Mitigation

   Simulating Scenarios for Climate Change, GBI Technologies, and Land Policy
   Documentos de trabajo
   Agosto 2022
   Nilo Nascimento, Renan Pereira Almeida, Priscilla Moura, Talita Silva, Michelle Reboita, Wilson Fernandes, Deyvid Rosa, Pedro A. Patrício, Rafael A. S. Drumond, Kauê Melo, André Silva, and Christie Souza

   Technical approaches inspired by concepts such as green and blue infrastructure (GBI) may offer alternatives for urban adaptation to climate change with significant environmental and socioeconomic...

9. An Urban Planner’s Guide to Climate Information

   Documentos de trabajo
   Agosto 2022
   Donovan Finn , Ellie Evans , and Kevin A. Reed

   As the risks to communities from climate change becomes more pronounced, urban planners need access to better and more user-friendly forms of climate data for a variety of planning tasks ranging from...

10. Scenario Planning Using Climate Data

    New Tools Merging Science and Practice
    Documentos de trabajo
    Agosto 2022
    Donovan Finn and Naomi Miller

    The integration of climate data into scenario planning is an important next step in helping local planning practitioners more usefully engage with the public around questions of how to address local...