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Op 1: Promote long-term integrative planning to decrease the communities’ vulnerability and increase it’s adaptability to the harmful effects of climate change.

Sub themes on this page: Land, Ecology, Climate Change Mitigation, Climate Change Adaptation

Sub theme: Land

Create ecological resilience, engineering resilience, and promote community health and wellbeing. By providing spaces that meet the needs of residents and accommodate their daily activities while minimising the negative environmental impact of reconstruction.

 

Strategies:

Plan for comprehensive Environmental Site Assessment (EIA)
Implement a Construction Environmental Management Plan (CEMP)
Prepare site improvement plan and prioritise degraded sites and brownfields
Design For green infrastructure
Optimise biomass, soil protection, and vegetation
Support local food production

Net Zero: Embodied Carbon:

Health & Wellbeing Framework – 1.1 improve Air Quality, 1.2 improve Water Quality, 3.2 Ensure outdoor nature access & Biodiversity, 5.2 Commit to Construction workers Health & Wellbeing, 6.2 Design for Resilience and Adaptation action, 6.4 Ensure resource efficiency

Stakeholders to involve:

  • Government
  • Real estate and investors
  • Urban planners, architects, landscape designers, and contractors
  • Residents and public
  • Landowners

Sub theme: Ecology

Conduct an accurate and detailed assessment of the ecological health of the area and set an agenda of remedial work needed and baseline conditions for planning and design.

 

Strategies:

  • Identify and map existing ecosystems
  • Identify current and potential negative impact on ecosystems
  • Manage ecosystems

Alignment with existing WorldGBC principles:

Health & Wellbeing Framework – 3.2 Ensure outdoor nature access & Biodiversity, 6.2 Design for resilience & Adaptation action

Stakeholders to involve:

  • National ministries responsible for environment and agriculture
  • Planning authorities
  • International donors
  • Local municipalities
  • Soil expert, water expert, horticulturist, native plant specialist, ecologist, landscape ecologist and conservation biologist
  • Planners, designers, engineers, architects, and landscape architects
  • Landowners
  • Communities
  • Non-Governmental organizations (NGO) and Civil Society concerned with ecological processes
  • Conservation ecologists, and biologists
  • Any other expert needed to address specific conditions or situations
Land
Ecology
Climate change mitigation
Climate change adaptation

Create ecological resilience, engineering resilience, and promote community health and wellbeing. By providing spaces that meet the needs of residents and accommodate their daily activities while minimising the negative environmental impact of reconstruction.

 

Strategies:

Plan for comprehensive Environmental Site Assessment (EIA)
Implement a Construction Environmental Management Plan (CEMP)
Prepare site improvement plan and prioritise degraded sites and brownfields
Design For green infrastructure
Optimise biomass, soil protection, and vegetation
Support local food production

Net Zero: Embodied Carbon:

Health & Wellbeing Framework – 1.1 improve Air Quality, 1.2 improve Water Quality, 3.2 Ensure outdoor nature access & Biodiversity, 5.2 Commit to Construction workers Health & Wellbeing, 6.2 Design for Resilience and Adaptation action, 6.4 Ensure resource efficiency

Stakeholders to involve:

  • Government
  • Real estate and investors
  • Urban planners, architects, landscape designers, and contractors
  • Residents and public
  • Landowners

Op 3: Promote long-term integrative planning to decrease the communities’ vulnerability and increase it’s adaptability to the harmful effects of climate change.

Sub themes on this page: Land, Ecology, Climate Change Mitigation, Climate Change Adaptation

Create ecological resilience, engineering resilience, and promote community health and wellbeing. By providing spaces that meet the needs of residents and accommodate their daily activities while minimising the negative environmental impact of reconstruction.

Strategies:

Plan for comprehensive Environmental Site Assessment (EIA)
Implement a Construction Environmental Management Plan (CEMP)
Prepare site improvement plan and prioritise degraded sites and brownfields
Design For green infrastructure
Optimise biomass, soil protection, and vegetation
Support local food production

Net Zero: Embodied Carbon:

Health & Wellbeing Framework – 1.1 improve Air Quality, 1.2 improve Water Quality, 3.2 Ensure outdoor nature access & Biodiversity, 5.2 Commit to Construction workers Health & Wellbeing, 6.2 Design for Resilience and Adaptation action, 6.4 Ensure resource efficiency

Stakeholders to involve:

  • Government
  • Real estate and investors
  • Urban planners, architects, landscape designers, and contractors
  • Residents and public
  • Landowners