Adaptation with climate change as an opportunity to raise the quality standards of life in our communities

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Environmental and Infra. Planning Dept., Faculty of Regional and Urban Planning - Cairo University

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The risk of climate change is one of the environmental threats on life quality of human and ecosystems. Rising temperatures and humidity are serious impact, which decrease the thermal comfort, raise demand on air conditions, increase droughts, and increase the diseases. Also, sea level rise and extreme events are impacting on coastal areas. In addition to climate change has a range of consequences on health, economic activities and social systems. Responses for climate change are followed mechanisms of mitigation or adaptation, or together. Mitigation has focused on standards, laws, building codes, renewable energy, managing water use, and green areas. There are many adaptation options in urban planning such as urban density adaptation, land use change, institutional adaptation, sustainable development, and landscape of open spaces. Some countries are accelerating the adaptation wheel within their cities. But Egyptian policies should be developed to avoid the future risk on settlements. Hence community's Adaptation is a backbone to improve air quality, decrease demand for energy, and create a space for recreation and ecosystems, and other benefits, which is a huge opportunity to raise quality standards of life in our communities. So, adaptation is adding another value to quality of land use and other socio-economic indicators

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Bulletin de la Société de Géographie d'Egypte
Volume 92, Issue 1
Proceedings of the first conference of Egyptian Climate Group, Climate and Environment. Egypt-Africa and the world, The Egyptian Geographical Society 13-15 October 2018
2019
Pages 76-89

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