Assessment of effectiveness of selected adaptation actions to climate change. The example of the New Centre of Lodz.

Anna Dominika Bochenek

anna.bochenek@p.lodz.pl
Institute of Environmental Engineering and Building Services; Faculty of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Environmental Engineering; Lodz University of Technology; (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3396-2006

Katarzyna Klemm


Institute of Environmental Engineering and Building Services; Faculty of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Environmental Engineering; Lodz University of Technology; (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8518-4328

Magdalena Woźna


Philips Polska Branch in Lodz (Poland)

Abstract

The increasing average annual temperature value is observed in many cities around the world. More and more often, not only the Southern Europe inhabitants, but also those from the Central and Northern Europe are exposed to thermal stress. Nature Based Solutions (NBS) play a key role in mitigation, i.e. the process of alleviating the negative effects of climate change in highly urbanized areas.

The main objective of this study is to answer the question whether the planned spatial activities involving the use of NBS solutions in the New Centre of Lodz contribute to the improvement of the urban spaces’ microclimate and the thermal comfort of people in the external environment. The subject of the work is the microclimate of urban spaces, understood as a climatic conditions set, in particular thermal conditions, in a given, small area. The spatial scope of the work covers a 30-hectare part of the New Centre of Lodz limited by the following streets: Kilińskiego, Narutowicza, Piotrkowska, Tuwima, which is currently undergoing a large-area revitalization process. In order to determine the microclimate conditions and thermal comfort, numerical simulations conducted in the ENVI-met program were used.


Keywords:

adaptation strategies in urban spaces, Nature-Based Solutions, microclimate, human thermal sensations, numerical simulations

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Published
2022-12-30

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Bochenek, A. D., Klemm, K. and Woźna, M. (2022) “Assessment of effectiveness of selected adaptation actions to climate change. The example of the New Centre of Lodz”., Budownictwo i Architektura, 21(4), pp. 025–042. doi: 10.35784/bud-arch.3150.

Authors

Anna Dominika Bochenek 
anna.bochenek@p.lodz.pl
Institute of Environmental Engineering and Building Services; Faculty of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Environmental Engineering; Lodz University of Technology; Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3396-2006

Authors

Katarzyna Klemm 

Institute of Environmental Engineering and Building Services; Faculty of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Environmental Engineering; Lodz University of Technology; Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8518-4328

Authors

Magdalena Woźna 

Philips Polska Branch in Lodz Poland

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