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:

• 045 Engels Jantje, BAD again - Bad Aachen design again

• 172 Rosa Altair, Survey of flooding hotspots in the municipality of Curitiba - Paranà (Brazil) through media monitoring

Digital Posters:

• 116 Sema Matteo, High Resolution Tsunami Inundation Maps: Towards Multi-Hazard Risk Analysis

• 118 Sema Matteo, A citizen science approach to exposure data collection: analysis, understanding and awareness

• 167 Dai Yingdi, From Neglect to Balance: Adaptive Regeneration Through Cultural Spatial Logic of Five Elements Theory and Nature-Based Design in Scampia, Naples