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The precision of the digital terrain model, obtained through the use of LiDAR and
orthophotos data, made it possible to increase the number of details with which to
perform the effectiveness measuring simulations in terms of temperature reduction,
using the various mitigation interventions considered for each of the four
scenarios.
The subsequently performed simulations allowed us to close the working cycle
through the virtual testing of the interventions under consideration, thereby assessing the best strategies for the pilot area.
The fourth scenario, “green ground + cool pavements”, tested with the ENVImet software, provided the best results from the point of view of temperature reduction. Based on this, we used this scenario for our project.
8.4 The Pilot Area as Testing Ground for the Veneto Region
The scenario we selected for the pilot area is aimed at increasing resilience to negative externalities caused by climate variability. This urban green infrastructure plan
becomes a driving force for the adaptation of urban and regional systems to climate
changes.
A network of natural and semi-natural areas has a good ability to make the land
more resilient; if well designed, green infrastructure can mitigate the effects of
floods and the increasing droughts, improve water and air quality, effectively promote soil protection, and oppose hydrogeological instability. In addition, it ensures
air filtration, erosion protection, water flows regulation, coastal protection, soil
structure maintenance, and carbon storage.
The multiple benefits of green infrastructure are also set forth in the European
strategy for green infrastructure published last year (EU 2013). For example, trees
and green areas may prevent flooding in cities while reducing air pollution and
noise levels. Furthermore, the use of natural systems can often be cheaper and more
durable than a hard artificial structure.
However, we have yet to understand how to apply these changes to a real area.
Veneto’s central area, having been greatly transformed over the last 40 years, mostly
through a series of small spread out interventions, requires a specific design
approach. By the same talking, the pilot area transformation project produced by
our feasibility study can be implemented through small interventions that will be
made presumably over a period of about 20 years.
Our project and its graphical representations provide a potential scenario that can
presumable be striven for. Its mitigation measures against the heat island effect can
be effectively used in the first place through the adoption of appropriate land and
urban management and planning tools that can implement the new adaptation priorities arising from climate changes.
Based on this, in order to make our mitigation measures as applicable as possible,
our work group performed a survey of the existing land management and planning
tools, linking each measure to a potentially modifiable planning tool (Table 8.2).
F. Musco et al.
The precision of the digital terrain model, obtained through the use of LiDAR and
orthophotos data, made it possible to increase the number of details with which to
perform the effectiveness measuring simulations in terms of temperature reduction,
using the various mitigation interventions considered for each of the four
scenarios.
The subsequently performed simulations allowed us to close the working cycle
through the virtual testing of the interventions under consideration, thereby assessing the best strategies for the pilot area.
The fourth scenario, “green ground + cool pavements”, tested with the ENVImet software, provided the best results from the point of view of temperature reduction. Based on this, we used this scenario for our project.
8.4 The Pilot Area as Testing Ground for the Veneto Region
The scenario we selected for the pilot area is aimed at increasing resilience to negative externalities caused by climate variability. This urban green infrastructure plan
becomes a driving force for the adaptation of urban and regional systems to climate
changes.
A network of natural and semi-natural areas has a good ability to make the land
more resilient; if well designed, green infrastructure can mitigate the effects of
floods and the increasing droughts, improve water and air quality, effectively promote soil protection, and oppose hydrogeological instability. In addition, it ensures
air filtration, erosion protection, water flows regulation, coastal protection, soil
structure maintenance, and carbon storage.
The multiple benefits of green infrastructure are also set forth in the European
strategy for green infrastructure published last year (EU 2013). For example, trees
and green areas may prevent flooding in cities while reducing air pollution and
noise levels. Furthermore, the use of natural systems can often be cheaper and more
durable than a hard artificial structure.
However, we have yet to understand how to apply these changes to a real area.
Veneto’s central area, having been greatly transformed over the last 40 years, mostly
through a series of small spread out interventions, requires a specific design
approach. By the same talking, the pilot area transformation project produced by
our feasibility study can be implemented through small interventions that will be
made presumably over a period of about 20 years.
Our project and its graphical representations provide a potential scenario that can
presumable be striven for. Its mitigation measures against the heat island effect can
be effectively used in the first place through the adoption of appropriate land and
urban management and planning tools that can implement the new adaptation priorities arising from climate changes.
Based on this, in order to make our mitigation measures as applicable as possible,
our work group performed a survey of the existing land management and planning
tools, linking each measure to a potentially modifiable planning tool (Table 8.2).
F. Musco et al.