Assessing flood and waterlogging vulnerability and community governance in urban villages in the context of climate change: A case study of 89 urban villages in Shanghai
IF 10.5 1区 工程技术Q1 CONSTRUCTION & BUILDING TECHNOLOGY
Shijun Chen , Jiayue Lin , Tuolei Wu , Zhe Yuan , Wenting Cao
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Abstract
Climate change has increased the vulnerability of urban villages to flooding and waterlogging, making it a major challenge for government community management. This study assesses flood-waterlogging vulnerability in Shanghai's urban villages under current conditions and long-term SSP-RCP scenarios using data from 89 redevelopment communities. We identify development patterns based on clustering models, evaluate vulnerability using an ensemble learning model, and analyze climate policy attention with Python-based text mining. Results highlight significant variations in infrastructure and flood risk across urban villages with different development patterns. Suburban Growth Zones and Ecological Agricultural Zones show higher vulnerability. In the long term, most villages become more vulnerable under both SSP245 and SSP585 scenarios, and the uncertainties and risks will increase due to cumulative effects. The study emphasizes the necessity of thorough governmental management in mitigating climate-induced waterlogging risks in urban villages and suggests specific policy recommendations customized for various categories of urban villages.
期刊介绍:
Sustainable Cities and Society (SCS) is an international journal that focuses on fundamental and applied research to promote environmentally sustainable and socially resilient cities. The journal welcomes cross-cutting, multi-disciplinary research in various areas, including:
1. Smart cities and resilient environments;
2. Alternative/clean energy sources, energy distribution, distributed energy generation, and energy demand reduction/management;
3. Monitoring and improving air quality in built environment and cities (e.g., healthy built environment and air quality management);
4. Energy efficient, low/zero carbon, and green buildings/communities;
5. Climate change mitigation and adaptation in urban environments;
6. Green infrastructure and BMPs;
7. Environmental Footprint accounting and management;
8. Urban agriculture and forestry;
9. ICT, smart grid and intelligent infrastructure;
10. Urban design/planning, regulations, legislation, certification, economics, and policy;
11. Social aspects, impacts and resiliency of cities;
12. Behavior monitoring, analysis and change within urban communities;
13. Health monitoring and improvement;
14. Nexus issues related to sustainable cities and societies;
15. Smart city governance;
16. Decision Support Systems for trade-off and uncertainty analysis for improved management of cities and society;
17. Big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence applications and case studies;
18. Critical infrastructure protection, including security, privacy, forensics, and reliability issues of cyber-physical systems.
19. Water footprint reduction and urban water distribution, harvesting, treatment, reuse and management;
20. Waste reduction and recycling;
21. Wastewater collection, treatment and recycling;
22. Smart, clean and healthy transportation systems and infrastructure;