@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{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{DownesStorchRujneretal., author = {Downes, Nigel K. and Storch, Harry and Rujner, Hendrik and Moon, Ki Duk}, title = {Urban Sustainability in Times of Changing Climate: The Case of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam}, series = {46th ISOCARP Congress 2010 "Sustainable City, Developing World", Nairobi Kenya}, booktitle = {46th ISOCARP Congress 2010 "Sustainable City, Developing World", Nairobi Kenya}, publisher = {ISOCARP}, address = {The Hague}, pages = {1 -- 8}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{StorchDownesNguyenetal., author = {Storch, Harry and Downes, Nigel K. and Nguyen, Xuan Thinh and Schmidt, Michael and Nguyen, Thi Hien Thuan and Ho, Long Phi and Goedecke, Manfred and Welsch, J{\"o}rn}, title = {Urban Environmental Planning Strategies for Ho Chi Minh City's Adaptation Response to Climate Change}, series = {Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, 2010, Session: Combating Climate Change in Mega Cities, Online paper abstracts}, booktitle = {Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, 2010, Session: Combating Climate Change in Mega Cities, Online paper abstracts}, publisher = {AAG}, address = {Washington, DC}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{StorchDownes, author = {Storch, Harry and Downes, Nigel K.}, title = {Ho Chi Minh City: Opportunities for Adaptation via Spatial Planning Strategies}, series = {Deltas in Times of Climate Change - Connecting world science and deltas, 1th International conference Rotterdam, the Netherlands 29 September - 1 October 2010, Abstracts Scientific Programme Deltas in Depth}, booktitle = {Deltas in Times of Climate Change - Connecting world science and deltas, 1th International conference Rotterdam, the Netherlands 29 September - 1 October 2010, Abstracts Scientific Programme Deltas in Depth}, editor = {Kabat, Pavel and Vellinga, Pier}, publisher = {www.climatedeltaconference.org}, address = {Rotterdam}, pages = {S. 228}, language = {en} }