Linde, Titus van der (2024) The Potential of Nature-based Solutions to Enhance Post-War Neighbourhood Resilience to Climate Challenges: Spatial Adaptations for Overtoomse Veld. Bachelor thesis.
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Abstract
Climate Change Related Risks have intensified in urban areas as temperatures and precipitation levels are rising. Within the city of Amsterdam, post-war neighbourhoods experience elevated risks for urban heat and pluvial flooding. Urban areas can benefit from climate adaptation strategies such as Nature- based Solutions. NbS serve to improve the climate resiliency of cities by protecting and restoring ecosystems through nature-inspired urban planning. Open public spaces within Amsterdam’s post-war neighbourhoods provide suitable conditions for successful NbS implementation. A systematic literature of 13 local case studies measured the potential for NbS to reduce the Urban Heat Island effect and pluvial flooding within different cities in the Netherlands. A comparative case study analysis determined the most suitable NbS for the specific challenges of Amsterdam’s post-war neighbourhoods to be a network of integrated Green, Blue, and Green-Blue Infrastructure. Abiotic surfaces such as asphalt should be replaced by surface materials with greater impermeability and higher albedos. Additionally, more blue and green spaces could be incorporated within existing open areas by adding parks, (street) trees, daylight rivers, and (bio)swales. The additional application of Blue-green roofs could cover more surface area of residential spaces and significantly reduce surface runoff and heat storage.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Degree programme: | Spatial Planning and Design |
| Supervisor: | Dos Anjos Marques, J. |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Jul 2024 09:57 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Jul 2024 09:57 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/4600 |
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