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CITIES
Volume 141, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2023.104474
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Climate adaptation; Nature -based solutions; Urban policy; Participatory budget; Poland
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This paper critically evaluates the urban climate change adaptation policy and practice in Central Europe, using Polish cities as an example. The study focuses on local policy documents and develops and applies a scoring system for their analysis, particularly on 'green' adaptation concepts. The research reveals that the time of adoption of cities' Strategies and Programmes for Environmental Protection is linked to the scores received, demonstrating the flow of innovation from science into urban policy.
The paper critically evaluates the urban climate change adaptation policy and practise in Central Europe using Polish cities as an example. The study focused on local policy documents and a scoring system was elaborated and applied for their analysis with particular attention to 'green' adaptation concepts. The link between the time of adoption and the scores received by cities' Strategies and Programmes for Environmental Protection demonstrates innovation flow from science into urban policy. We revealed that many of the proposed measures in Urban Adaptation Plans represent rather mitigation than adaptation implying substantial knowledge gaps in differentiating between them. A portfolio of projects implemented in 2014-2020 within EU funding programmes and Participatory budget was compiled with further classification into 'green', 'grey', or 'soft'. More than 80 % of the selected projects in each of the cities were classified as 'green', but only one studied city demonstrated an upward trend in the number and cumulative budget of the adaptation projects. The examined Polish cities, similarly to other Central and Eastern European ones, experiencing fast economic growth have featured a profound contraction of green areas over the last decades. Partially it might be compensated by local environmental programmes that promote application of nature-based solutions.
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