Urban Development
with Green Infrastructures for Optimised Climate Change Conditions
Agrawal Swati and Lamba Akshit
Disaster Advances; Vol. 18(6); 28-34;
doi: https://doi.org/10.25303/186da028034; (2025)
Abstract
Governments are commencing preparations for the impacts of climate change. The cities
are executing several Green Infrastructure (GI) initiatives via the Green Cities
Clear Waters program to comply with State and federal stormwater laws. The effective
implementation of green buildings can yield the ancillary benefit of enhancing local
resistance to possible ecosystem changes, including rising temperatures during summer
and intensified rainfall, sometimes called environmental adaption. This research
assessed the capacity of the Green City Clear Waters initiative to enhance the city's
resilience against future impacts of global warming. Three prospective land cover
simulations were employed to examine the effects of climate resilience via environmentally
friendly structures in the short term, mid-century and end of the decade according
to two possibilities for climate change. The influence of GI on surface temperature
exhibited varied outcomes.
The effects on runoff and surface temperatures varied among different forms of GI.
The cities are projected to become more humid, warmer and crowded during the next
century, resulting in a typical rise in runoff and local temperatures, notwithstanding
the proposed expansion of green technology. To enhance resilience in response to
global warming, the regional administration must augment its environmental infrastructure
strategy and incorporate the co-benefits of climate adaptation in developing new
initiatives. To attain genuine climate change resilience, installing GI must be
integrated with citywide improvement initiatives, advancing and persisting beyond
the immediate future for municipalities to operate as they already do.
