The 300 climate adaptation projects are based on cloudburst proofing Copenhagen. The city’s rainwater management is therefore crucial to all projects and will consist of technical solutions above and below the ground. Ecosystems are related to the city’s grown environment. Rainwater management in this context refers to how urban nature as an ecosystem can contribute to rainwater management on the city’s surface, and not how rainwater management can be solved in the city in general. It is thus a matter of nature based climate adaptation.
FACTS The City of Copenhagen in collaboration with HOFOR has set up the overall framework for rainwater management solutions by defining a range of cloudburst typologies, which consist of solutions above and below the city’s surface. (Cloudburst proofing of Copenhagen, 2014) The City of Copenhagen’s Climate adaptation and investment statement from 2015 contains a description of all cloudburst projects.
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