@incollection{StorchDownesLe, author = {Storch, Harry and Downes, Nigel K. and Le, Hoa Thanh}, title = {The Urban Risk Dilemma: Urbanisation, Modernisation and Disaster Risks in Ho Chi Minh City}, series = {REAL-CORPS 2012: Remixing the city, towards sustainability and resilience}, booktitle = {REAL-CORPS 2012: Remixing the city, towards sustainability and resilience}, editor = {Schrenk, Manfred and Popovich, Vasily V. and Zeile, Peter and Elisei, Pietro}, publisher = {Selbstverlag des Vereins CORP}, address = {Schwechat, Austria}, isbn = {978-3-9503110-3-7}, pages = {881 -- 887}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{StorchDownes, author = {Storch, Harry and Downes, Nigel K.}, title = {Urban growth - understanding the dominant drivers and spatial dynamics of risk}, series = {Aesop 2012, E-Book of Abstracts, 26th Annual Congress of the Association of European Schools of Planning, 11-15 July 2012, Ankara, Turkey}, booktitle = {Aesop 2012, E-Book of Abstracts, 26th Annual Congress of the Association of European Schools of Planning, 11-15 July 2012, Ankara, Turkey}, editor = {Balamir, Murat and Ersoy, Melih and Sutcliffe, Ela Babal{\i}k}, publisher = {ARBER}, address = {Ankara}, isbn = {978-975-429-306-7}, pages = {337 -- 350}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{StorchDownes, author = {Storch, Harry and Downes, Nigel K.}, title = {Climate Change adapted Land Use Planning - From Understanding to Implementation}, series = {Adaptation Futures 2012 - International Conference on Climate Adaptation}, booktitle = {Adaptation Futures 2012 - International Conference on Climate Adaptation}, publisher = {Elsevier Conference Services}, address = {Tucson}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{StorchDownes, author = {Storch, Harry and Downes, Nigel K.}, title = {Strategic Land-use Planning in a Changing Climate - Adapting to the spatial dynamics of risk in Ho Chi Minh City}, series = {Book of abstracts, 11th Urban Environment Symposium, Urban Futures for a Sustainable World, 16-19 September 2012 in Karlsruhe, Germany}, booktitle = {Book of abstracts, 11th Urban Environment Symposium, Urban Futures for a Sustainable World, 16-19 September 2012 in Karlsruhe, Germany}, pages = {S. 105}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{StorchDownes, author = {Storch, Harry and Downes, Nigel K.}, title = {Liveable and resilient Ho Chi Minh City: Tackling the challenges of climate change, energy security and sustainable urban development}, series = {REAL CORP 2010, Cities for everyone: liveable, healthy, prosperous, proceedings of 15th International Conference on Urban Planning, Regional Development and Information Society,}, booktitle = {REAL CORP 2010, Cities for everyone: liveable, healthy, prosperous, proceedings of 15th International Conference on Urban Planning, Regional Development and Information Society,}, publisher = {CORP}, address = {Schwechat, Austria}, isbn = {978-39502139-9-7}, pages = {401 -- 409}, abstract = {Emerging Megacities in East Asia face common challenges in responding to rapid population growth and there is an urgency to develop these cities in a more liveable and sustainable manner. Future Asian Megacities can play a key role in improving energy efficiency and addressing the effects of climate change through practical and pragmatic urban environmental planning measures. This contribution illuminates the way adaptation to climate change is tackled in spatial planning strategies. The possible impacts of climate change on mega-urban regions in South-East Asia are highlighting that spatial design and urban environmental planning are a promising tool in adapting to climate change, because its integral responses are capable in dealing with uncertainties. Dealing with adaptation to climate change in the context of emerging Asian megacities requires a shift in policy options towards more proactive response strategies. While urban development trends in HCMC are addressing both mitigation needs and the rationale of adaptation to the effects of climate change, the main focus of combating climate change impacts in the mega-urban region of HCMC has to be the practical implementation of adaptation measures. Planned adaptation implies spatial planning decisions and measures at the urban-scale that facilitates the reduction of the adverse impacts of climate change. Further however adaptation has the potential to realise new opportunities for defining livability and sustainability in an Asian context of urban development planning, scoping planning issues and opportunities at different spatial scales.}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{StorchDownes, author = {Storch, Harry and Downes, Nigel K.}, title = {Adapted Land Use Planning for Future Climate Risks - Implementation Needs in Rapidly Urbanising Environments}, series = {UPE10 Next City, Planning for a New Energy \& Climate Future, 10th International Urban Planning and Environment Association Symposium, Proceedings}, booktitle = {UPE10 Next City, Planning for a New Energy \& Climate Future, 10th International Urban Planning and Environment Association Symposium, Proceedings}, editor = {Gurran, Nicole and Phibbs, Peter and Thompson, Susan}, publisher = {ICMS Pty Ltd.}, address = {Sydney, Australia}, isbn = {978-1-74210-281-8}, pages = {299 -- 311}, abstract = {Climate change studies have typically only been able to integrate snapshots of urban dynamics into risk assessments. For highly dynamic regions, this has often led to an overestimation of climate extremes as a driver of risk. Our impact assessment study for Ho Chi Minh City highlights, that the influence of non-climatic stressors - like urbanisation as the spatial manifestation of socio-economic processes is still widely under acknowledged. We argue a scenario-based approach is needed to understand the interrelationship between urban growth, urban land use planning and hydrometeorological hazards and to provide local planning authorities with the muchneeded insights into the drivers of risk. The location of residential areas, industrial parks, critical infrastructure and facilities are in themselves important spatial indicators to assess the vulnerability of urban communities to climate-related hazards. Ho Chi Minh City presented as an archetypical mega-urban example, where spatial planning for adapted urban land uses will be instrumental in addressing climate challenges. Research findings for the city demonstrate that through adapted land use planning, climate-related vulnerability parameters can be modified to reduce current and future urban risks. Yet planning alone is simply not enough. Within its multi-stakeholder environment borne out of conflicting interests, land use planning requires more than ever science-based information to formulate spatially explicit adaptation measures to climate change.}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{StorchDownes, author = {Storch, Harry and Downes, Nigel K.}, title = {Risk Management and Spatial Planning - Understanding Rapid Urbanization in Climate Change}, series = {Proceedings, REAL CORP 2013, Planning Times}, booktitle = {Proceedings, REAL CORP 2013, Planning Times}, editor = {Schrenk, Manfred and Popovich, Vasily V. and Zeile, Peter and Elisei, Pietro}, publisher = {CORP}, address = {Schwechat, Austria}, isbn = {978-3-9503110-5-1}, pages = {1327 -- 1333}, abstract = {In the emerging mega-urban regions of Southeast Asia, both planned and unplanned urbanisation into flood prone areas appears to be an unavoidable consequence of socio-economic development. These risks occur, often not due to a lack of risk awareness or weak planning instruments, but seem to be an accepted consequence of maintaining current economic success and social progress. Flood risk protection and implementation of costly mitigation measures are often shifted to a future development cycle, where implementation is not seen to constrain the economic goals. Asian cities located in deltaic settings such as Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) in Vietnam, exhibit higher exposure levels to flood risk primary as a result of their location, their low elevation and if located in tropical regions, the significant annual variations in climatic and weather extremes they incur, so that a compelling need for dedicated site specific risk assessment and urban planning arises. Disasters like the recent flood in Bangkok in 2011 have shown that this development strategy cannot be justified any longer, especially in the times of a changing climate. Associated economic losses and social implications are simply too high. Our results are an outcome of a 5 year research project in HCMC funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research, focused on developing adaptation options to climate risks that could then be subsequently implemented into the existing land-use planning framework. Based on the development of core indicators describing future urban structural changes in relation to the changing patterns of risk exposures, spatially explicit planning recommendations were compiled in close cooperation with the responsible city authorities. Our contribution focuses on how to overcome the current limitations in implementing scientifically-founded and evidence-based adaptation planning to flood risks by communicating the importance in realising the present and plausible opportunities to influence future urban land-use.}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{RujnerGoedeckeStorchetal., author = {Rujner, Hendrik and Goedecke, Manfred and Storch, Harry and Moon, Ki Duk and Downes, Nigel K.}, title = {GIS-basierte Kopplung des Abflussbildungsmodells ABIMO mit dem stadtstrukturellen Planungsinformationssystem von Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam)}, series = {Angewandte Geoinformatik 2010, Beitr{\"a}ge zum 22. AGIT-Symposium, Salzburg}, booktitle = {Angewandte Geoinformatik 2010, Beitr{\"a}ge zum 22. AGIT-Symposium, Salzburg}, editor = {Stobl, Josef and Blaschke, Thomas and Griesebner, Gerald}, publisher = {Wichmann}, address = {Heidelberg [u.a.]}, isbn = {978-3-87907-495-2}, pages = {545 -- 551}, abstract = {Ziel des vom BMBF gef{\"o}rderten Projektes "Integrative Stadt- und Umweltplanung f{\"u}r Ho Chi Minh City zur Anpassung an den globalen Klimawandel" ist es auf Basis einer r{\"a}umlich expliziten Methodik zur Risiko-\& Vulnerabilit{\"a}tsbewertung konkrete Handlungsempfehlungen f{\"u}r eine r{\"a}umliche Anpassungsplanung in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) abzuleiten. Im Rahmen der „Entwicklung eines stadtstrukturellen Planungsinformationssystems zur Bewertung von Anpassungsstrategien an den Klimawandel in der mega-urbanen Region Ho Chi Minh City", stellt der vorliegende Ansatz eine Anwendungsform im Bereich des {\"U}berflutungsrisikos dar.}, language = {de} } @inproceedings{StorchDownesRujner, author = {Storch, Harry and Downes, Nigel K. and Rujner, Hendrik}, title = {The Challenge of Spatial Information Management for Adaptation to Climate Change in Ho Chi Minh City}, series = {EnviroInfo 2010, Integration of Environmental Information in Europe, Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Informatics for Environmental Protection Cologne/Bonn, Germany}, booktitle = {EnviroInfo 2010, Integration of Environmental Information in Europe, Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Informatics for Environmental Protection Cologne/Bonn, Germany}, editor = {Greve, Klaus and Cremers, Armin B.}, publisher = {Shaker-Verlag}, address = {Aachen}, isbn = {978-3-8322-9458-8}, pages = {169 -- 176}, abstract = {The environmental dimension of spatial planning in emerging Asian megacities such as Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) has become a strong rationale for coordinating spatially well defined adaptation actions and integrating mitigation policies. Climate change is changing the traditional context of urban development planning and is shaping the priorities of sustainability. While urban development trends in HCMC are addressing both mitigation needs and the rationale of adaptation to the effects of climate change, the main focus of combating climate change impacts in the megaurban region of HCMC has to be the practical implementation of adaptation measures. Planned adaptation implies policy decisions and measures at the urban-scale that facilitates the reduction of the adverse impacts of climate change. For HCMC it creates the necessity to take climate change responses into account in spatial planning practices. This will also lead to changes in the traditional administrative structures that spatial planning is accustomed to. Since many of the main impacts of climate change have a land-use or water-management dimension, a downscaled and spatially explicit urban environmental planning information system can function as a switchboard for mitigation, adaptation and sustainable development objectives. Currently there are large differences in the way knowledge is produced, the analytical approaches that are used and the designed urban and environmental planning strategies. The proposed sharing of a commonly accepted spatial information base can engage the dialogue between stakeholders and scientists in order to support the development of spatially explicit planning strategies that anticipate the climate change risks at the mega-urban scale and contribute to sustainable and resilient settlement structures for HCMC.}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{DownesStorch, author = {Downes, Nigel K. and Storch, Harry}, title = {Understanding Urban Structures - An Approach for Assessing Climate Risk in Emerging Megacities}, series = {EnviroInfo 2013 - Environmental Informatics and Renewable Energies, 27th International Conference on Informatics for Environmental Protection, September 2-4, 2013, University of Hamburg, Germany}, booktitle = {EnviroInfo 2013 - Environmental Informatics and Renewable Energies, 27th International Conference on Informatics for Environmental Protection, September 2-4, 2013, University of Hamburg, Germany}, editor = {Page, Bernd and Fleischer, Andreas G. and G{\"o}bel, Johannes and Wohlgemuth, Volker}, publisher = {Shaker-Verlag}, address = {Marburg}, isbn = {978-3-8440-1676-5}, pages = {781 -- 789}, language = {en} } @incollection{StorchEckertDownesetal., author = {Storch, Harry and Eckert, Ronald and Downes, Nigel K. and Schwartze, Frank and Huynh, Chau}, title = {HCMC: Climate-Adapted Planning}, series = {Space Planning and Design : Integrated Planning and Design Solutions for Future Megacities}, booktitle = {Space Planning and Design : Integrated Planning and Design Solutions for Future Megacities}, editor = {Pahl-Weber, Elke and Schwartze, Frank}, publisher = {Jovis}, address = {Berlin}, isbn = {978-3-86859-277-1}, pages = {178 -- 191}, language = {en} }