Climate Adaptation and Resilience

The international community has made great efforts over the past decades to cope with global climate change. The Paris Agreement highlighted the exigency of "holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 degrees C above pre-industrial levels." At present, however, the world's most effort is devoted to the means of carbon emission reduction, while neglecting adaptation, the other half that "cannot be neglected" in the climate equation. A series of studies have proven the huge potential of nature-based and nature-adapted approaches in building a climate-resilient living environment. In recent years, nature-based green infrastructures and climate-adaptive sponge cities are receiving unprecedented attention. This also poses great challenges and opportunities for landscape architects to develop resilient climate-adaptive green infrastructures by leveraging the power of nature through collaborative design with experts from the fields of Geography, Agriculture, Hydraulic Engineering, and Civil Engineering.