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the local authority's climate risk mitigation strategy.
As an additional incentive, Swedish climate policy
thinkers are also discussing the idea of requiring
building sellers to certify their climate risks, in the
same way they already must certify their buildings'
energy consumption, according to Storbjörk-a move
that would further encourage owners to face their climate
risks directly.
Regardless of the mechanism, Sánchez thinks that
coastal owners will be forced to think harder about
the impact that climate change might have on their
investment. " Increasingly, we will see that if you're
going to buy property on the waterfront . . . you will
probably need to convince people that, okay, this
problem has been taken into consideration. "
Public/Private Collaboration
In Rotterdam's Nieuwe
Maas river, developers
have relandscaped the
19th-century artificial
island of Brienenoord.
Improvements include
this tidal pool, which
is designed to reduce
pressure on the city
waterfront during storms.
But developers will not be able to act alone, in the
view of Lisette van Doorn, chief executive, Europe,
for ULI.
" What will really help the creation of more waterfront
property that is resilient to physical climate risk
is a better collaboration between public and private
sectors, " she says. Public support to defray the
higher costs of climate-proofing, such as a guarantee
or land discount, would be very helpful, she adds.
In addition to developers, Storbjörk suggested that
residents and other stakeholders need to be brought
into mitigation project planning early.
" In the existing city, where there are a lot of
people and activities already in place, I think it's a
very good idea to have these participatory processes
in the design and implementation of these measures,
because if you want multifunctional use, you need to
know how the people living in an area are using an
area, and how they interact with it, " she says. " With
small, slight adjustments of these measures, you can
actually make them more useful for the people living
there, " she adds.
But Storbjörk warns that thinking exclusively
locally will not work-it is vital for planners and developers
to think beyond the individual project to the
larger region.
" We still have to have coherent coastal protection.
. . . We cannot only look at the ports because then
we end up in New Orleans, " she says, referencing the
more than $160 billion in catastrophic damage that
Hurricane Katrina wrought on an unprepared city in
August 2005. And massive displacement of people.
" And that's not good. " UL
BENNETT VOYLES is a Berlin-based business writer.
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