Abstract
Local Climate Change GIS—Data-Based Visioning Tools for Community Decision-Making
Track: Climate Change
Author(s): Olaf Schroth, Philip Paar, David Flanders, Ellen Pond
Climate change has become a key topic in urban and landscape planning because planners must determine mitigation measures to significantly reduce ghg emissions and adaptations to handle climate change impacts. There is a gap between the state of research and its current consideration in planning practice, due in part to.the lack of well developed planning processes to deal with uncertainties, complex climate impacts, and their inter-relations with mitigation.
At University of British Columbia, prototypes have been developed for improved community planning to localize, spatialize, and visualize climate change effects and holistic scenarios using downscaled climate modeling, geospatial information, and land use models. In this context, GIS is a potential tool for capacity building. With regard to international case studies, GIS is used to identify the potential spatial consequences of different adaptation and mitigation scenarios. GIS data-based 3D visualization using the globe metaphor illustrates the global context of local action.
Olaf Schroth
CALP/UBC
Dept. of Forest Resource Mgmt. Faculty of Forestry
UBC 2045-2424 Main Mall
Vancouver , BC V6T 1Z4
Canada
Phone: 778-990 6991
E-mail: olaf_schroth@gmx.de
Philip Paar
University of Wageningen
P.O. box 47
Wageningen , Nethlerands 6700 AA
Netherlands
Phone: +49 1793988391
E-mail: paar@lenne3d.com
David Flanders
CALP / UBC
Dept. of Forest Resource Mgmt. Faculty of Forestry, UBC 2045-2424 Main Mall
Vancouver , BC V6T 1Z4
Canada
Phone: 604 822
E-mail: flanders@interchange.ubc.ca
Ellen Pond
CALP/UBC
Dept. of Forest Resource Mgmt. Faculty of Forestry, UBC 2045-2424 Main Mall
Vancouver , BC V6T 1Z4
Canada
Phone: 604 822
E-mail: epond@interchange.ubc.ca