Break Out Session IΙ: Urban and Regional Planning
Biodiversity and Open Space, Coastal Areas and Marine Environment, the Built Environment
Date
10th June 14:00-16:30
Convener
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Barbara Norman
University of Canberra, Australia
Dr. Norman is Professor in the Faculty of Business, Government and Law, University of Canberra, Foundation Chair of Urban and Regional Planning. Dr. Norman is Director of Canberra Urban and Regional Futures (CURF) and an Adjunct Professor with The Australian National University. Barbara is Chair of the ACT Climate Change Council, Deputy Chair of Regional Development Australia (ACT) and a member of the national stakeholder advisory group to the CSIRO Climate Adaptation Flagship. She is a Life Fellow and past national president of the Planning Institute of Australia and Life Honorary Fellow of the Royal Town Planning Institute (UK). Her research and teaching interests include urban and regional planning, sustainable coastal planning, climate change adaptation and urban governance. Dr. Norman was Chief Investigator of the recent report South East Coastal Adaptation (SECA): Coastal urban climate futures in SE Australia from Wollongong to Lakes Entrance. She is a contributing author to the forthcoming IPCC report on Impacts (March 2014). Dr. Norman has extensive experience in the public sector at all levels of government including senior executive roles in the ACT Government. Professor Norman advises the public and private sector in Australia and has strong international linkages within Asia, Europe and the United States. She was awarded an Australian Centenary Medal for her contribution to the community through urban and regional planning.
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Session leads
Margarita Arianoutsou-Farangitaki (NKUA)
Michael (Mikis) Tsimplis (Univ. Southampton)
Stelios C. Zerefos (Hellenic Open University)
Rapporteur
Christos Giannakopoulos, NOA
SummaryThe IPCC 5 WG1 and WGII confirm that the impacts of climate change will be significant on the built environment and urban landscapes. This session will bring together representatives from the global north and south to discuss issues of mutual concern in adapting to such environmental change. Planning for climate change requires considerations of the built environment, biodiversity, water and coastal urbanisation. It also requires integrated solutions to implementation.
Structure
10-15 minutes short presentations in first hour followed by roundtable discussion and questions for 90 minutes
Aims of the session
To discuss living with climate change in the urban environment of similar climate regions
Questions to be answered through the session
1. Do we need to significantly change our land use planning for climate change?
2. What is the role of biodiversity and open space in a changing climate?
3. What are the implications and possible solutions for coastal development and ecosystems?
Interventions
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 Barbara Norman
Dr. Norman is Professor in the Faculty of Business, Government and Law, University of Canberra, Foundation Chair of Urban and Regional Planning. Dr. Norman is Director of Canberra Urban and Regional Futures (CURF) and an Adjunct Professor with The Australian National University. Barbara is Chair of the ACT Climate Change Council, Deputy Chair of Regional Development Australia (ACT) and a member of the national stakeholder advisory group to the CSIRO Climate Adaptation Flagship. She is a Life Fellow and past national president of the Planning Institute of Australia and Life Honorary Fellow of the Royal Town Planning Institute (UK). Her research and teaching interests include urban and regional planning, sustainable coastal planning, climate change adaptation and urban governance. Dr. Norman was Chief Investigator of the recent report South East Coastal Adaptation (SECA): Coastal urban climate futures in SE Australia from Wollongong to Lakes Entrance. She is a contributing author to the forthcoming IPCC report on Impacts (March 2014). Dr. Norman has extensive experience in the public sector at all levels of government including senior executive roles in the ACT Government. Professor Norman advises the public and private sector in Australia and has strong international linkages within Asia, Europe and the United States. She was awarded an Australian Centenary Medal for her contribution to the community through urban and regional planning.
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 Stelios C. Zerefos
Dr. Zerefos is an architect, associate professor at the School of Applied Arts of the Hellenic Open University. He has practiced architecture since 1999 after graduating from the University of Plymouth, UK and the University of California at Los Angeles, USA. In 2004 he published his Ph.D. thesis titled "Intelligent Limit: Criteria of the transformation of the building skin". In the period 2003-2008 he has taught architectural design with digital means as a visiting lecturer at the National Technical University of Athens School of Architecture and lectured at the European Master’s Degree for Renewable Energy Sources in the University of Athens. Dr. Zerefos is the author of several academic and educational publications, as well as publications in scientific journals and international conference proceedings. He retains an architectural practice in Athens (www.zerefos-tessas.gr) focused on architectural and environmental design with more than 40 architectural design projects. His work has been published and acquired several awards in international architectural competitions. He is a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece, as well as international organizations and reviewer in international scientific journals focusing on buildings and energy efficiency.
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 Michael (Mikis) Tsimplis
Dr. Tsimplis is a Professor jointly appointed by the University of Southampton School of Law and the National Oceanography Centre. Presently he is a member of the Steering Group of MedClivar and a member of the External Expert Commission of IMEDEA (Spain). He is currently participating in an EU funded project looking at the liability for carbon storage under the seabed and a scientific project examining marine extremes under climate changes scenarios funded by Lloyd's Register Trust Fund. Dr. Tsimplis has recently been appointed as Director of the Institute of Maritime Law, based in the Southampton Law School.
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 Margarita Arianoutsou-Farangitaki
Dr. Margarita Arianoutsou-Farangitaki is Professor of Ecology at the Department of Ecology and Systematics of the Faculty of Biology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She is the Head of the Terrestrial Ecology Group. Her research and teaching fields comprise ecology and management of Mediterranean ecosystems, fire ecology, diversity and conservation, biological invasions, environmental education. She has published over 100 scientific articles and edited five books published by Kluwer, Plenum Press, Millpress and Springer. Margarita has organized five international conferences and has been invited speaker in numerous international and national scientific conferences. She has coordinated more than 30 national research projects and participated in over 25 European research projects. She has supervised ten Ph.D. theses and more than twenty First Diploma Theses in ecology and environmental education. Margarita was elected and acted twice as the Secretary of the International Society of Mediterranean Ecologists (ISOMED). She was elected and acted as President of the Hellenic Ecological Society (HELECOS) (2010-2012). She is Vice Chair of the FP0701 Cost Action, member of the Scientific Committee of the European Centre of Forest Fires, and member of the management committee of the Cost action TD 1209: Alien Challenge.
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 Xavier Amat
Xavier Amat Vilaró, is Head of Water Cycle and Management Program Department of the coast of Barcelona City. Born in the city of Barcelona, he received his degree in architecture from the Polytechnical University of Catalunya in 1995. He specializes in Building and Planning performing various postgraduate courses and training, highlighting the Real Estate management, facility management, Construction and Sustainable Development, Urban Management etc. He has worked as an architect in different projects in building and planning for several companies, as real estate companies and administration. In the year 2005, he started working for the Barcelona City Council. In the year 2012, he undertook the position of Chief Beaches Department of the city of Barcelona, within the Environment Management and the Urban Services, managing water consumption, ornamental fountains, groundwater and other services related to the Water Cycle, with the objective to the effective and sustainable management based on water savings and utilization of own resources. Since March 2014, he has undertaken the functions of Head of Water Cycle as well as of Management Program of the coast of Barcelona, managing activity from the beaches of Barcelona with the different operators involved. |
Panel
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Moderator:
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Barbara Norman (Univ. Canberra)
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Panelists:
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Mike Antos (Council for Watershed Health) |
 Mike Antos
Mike Antos is the Programs Director with the Council for Watershed Health, a Los Angeles, California based non-profit, where he pursues projects related to integrated water management, stormwater capture for groundwater augmentation, and assessment of watershed health. He leads the Los Angeles Basin Water Augmentation Study, and plays important roles in the Council’s policy engagements. Mike’s training in technical tools supports his current focus on adaptive management approaches to sustaining social, economic and environmental health in urban mediterranean-climate watersheds. An accomplished speaker, Mike is frequently requested to present aspects of the Council’s mission and work throughout California.
Mike is a Doctoral Candidate at UCLA Department of Geography, a member of the Water Resources Group of UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and a Switzer Fellow. His research investigates aligning new governance models with sustainable practice in coupled human-natural systems, focusing on integrated water management in California.
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Margarita Arianoutsou-Farangitaki (NKUA) |
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Xavier Amat (City of Barcelona)
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Vasileios Lykousis (HCMR)
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 Vasileios Lykousis
Vasilis Lykousis is Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research and Director of the Institute of Oceanography of the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research. He holds a BSc in Natural Sciences and Geography from the University of Athens, a Diploma in Applied Marine Sciences at the Department of Oceanography from the University College of Swansea, U.K., a MSc. in Oceanography and Sedimentology from the University of Wales, as well as a PhD in Marine Sedimentology, Slope stability and Geotechnics from the University of Patras. Mr Lykousis has also attended a Postgrad Course in Hydroacoustics and soundpropagation in ΝΑΤΟ Oceanographic Research La Spetzia ITALY. He is an expert at Deep sea geological processes, Slope-to-basin sedimentation processes and fluxes, mass gravity processes, Late Pleistocene sediment sequences and sedimentary facies, Suspended particulate matter dynamics and related fluxes, Seismic stratigraphy of Late Quaternary sediment sequences, Sea level changes and sediment sequences/facies. Mud volcanoes and gas hydrates. Marine geotechniques, Submarine slumping, Slope stability, Geohazards, as well as Tsunamis. He has been involved in more than 20 large scale EU projects as PI (MAST-II, MASTIII, FP5, FP6, FP7) (MTP-I-CINCS, MTP-II-MATER, MAST Adv. Study Course, ASSEM, EURODELTA, EURODOM, OCSASEM, ANAXIMANDER, 3HAZ-Corinth, HERMES-IP, TRANSFER, KM3Net, ESONET-NoE, EMSO, HERMIONE, EUROSITES, DS3F, REDECO). He is the coordinator of INTERPOL project (EVK3–CT-2000–00023). He has published more than 100 publications in peer review journals. He is the national representative in HORIZON 2020 SC2 and in the Strategic Working Group of ESFRI.
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Michael (Mikis) Tsimplis (Univ. Southampton)
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Stelios C. Zerefos (Hellenic Open University)
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Discussion
Discuss the implications of the findings and implications of IPCC WG2 report for urban and regional planning of our cities and coastlines
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