Session

As climate change accelerates, cities face mounting pressures from extreme weather, rising temperatures, and rapid urbanization that threaten their livability and resilience. This track explores innovative adaptation strategies for urban and metropolitan areas, emphasizing nature-based solutions, urban design interventions, and disaster risk reduction. Key topics include mitigating urban heat islands, enhancing biodiversity, improving water management, and strengthening social and institutional capacity to respond to climate risks. Through interdisciplinary collaboration and the integration of ecological, social, and technological perspectives, the session examines cutting-edge frameworks, real-world case studies, and policy-driven approaches that bridge research and implementation, fostering climate-responsive urban environments capable of addressing future challenges sustainably and adaptively.

Presentations:

• 128 Paolini Deborah, A spatial structure of green walkability to foster climate resilience in ageing cities

• 146 Dagnino Margherita, Nature-Based Solutions between Urban Density and Climate Resilience: Barriers, Opportunities, and the Role of the Private Sector

• 160 Khairallah Jihane, Promoting urban resilience through Nature based Solutions: insights from five Central European cities in GreenScape CE

• 215 Romelli Claudia, Promoting nature-based solutions in urban regeneration projects through climate-proofing of infrastructure

Digital Posters

• 054 Strosse Veerle, Mapping the Flemish Garden: A lever for Climate Adaptation and Biodiversity

• 057 Sergi Giovanni Pietro, Residual spaces,green infrastructure and adaptive architecture:ecological and social node in the Senigallia coastal strip

• 190 Linda Anefalos de Oliveira Yasmin, Ecological connectivity potential of brownfields in the Global South: an analysis of the reclamation of former landfills in the S√£o Paulo Metropolitan Region (Brazil)