Climate Adaptation & Urban Nature A Copenhagen Model based on co-creation and ecosystem services
How can urban nature set the direction for a city’s climate adaptation plan? What will happen when the built and the grown environment meet to create a whole new city?
The city of Copenhagen chose SLA to facilitate an interdisciplinary think tank to discuss and define Copenhagen’s green identity and climate adaptation plan based on urban nature. The think tank included experts from different fields such as biology, biodiversity, urban ecosystems, rainwater management, behavioral design and citizen involvement. As a result of the think tank, we developed the Copenhagen Model that sets a common direction on how to use nature based climate adaptation as a frame for Copenhagen’s overall cloudburst plan. As such, the Copenhagen Model works as a concrete development tool that promotes and qualifies the decision-making process in all phases of a project, which ensures that urban nature’s potential is realized within the framework of the individual climate adaptation project. We handed over the think tank’s work to the Mayor of the Technical and Environmental Affairs in the form of a so-called Development Catalogue that included specific recommendations for the administration. Service:Facilitation of think tank and production of development catalogue including the Copenhagen Model and recommendations for the administration Type: Facilitation, research and policymaking Client: The Municipality of Copenhagen, The Technical and Environmental Administration Period: 2015-2016 Collaborators: Mike Ameko Lippert & Signe Bjerregaard
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