WITS-TUB-UNILAG URBAN LAB MASTER’S SUMMER SCHOOL
URBAN MANAGEMENT ACROSS CONTINENTS
SESSION 4:
@ DGUENDEL, BERLIN-NEUKÖLLN, VIEW TO THE TOWN HALL, CC BY 3.0
ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT II
The centre of Neukölln, Berlin, Germany
The three presentations in this session focus on different environmental topics such as climate change adaptation and mitigation, disaster risk reduction and water pollution, investigating implementation of policy objectives and aiming at providing recommendations or creating frameworks for policies and implementation. The session is chaired by Dr. Jakub Galuszka (TU Berlin). The research of Nora Hubrich (TU Berlin) investigates how the well-being of sociospatially disadvantaged groups can be advanced through implementation of climate adaptation measures. Building on a climate justice framework, she analyses how climate
risks are distributed, and who benefits from, and participates in, climate adaptation measures. Subsequently she explores how urban climate adaptation can be designed to improve quality of life for disadvantaged groups. For her analysis she chose the northern part of Berlin’s Neukölln district. Besides document and data analysis, she conducted expert interviews and focus group interviews with residents. In her preliminary results she highlights that integrated concepts at neighbourhood level are yet missing in northern Neukölln, and good examples from other parts of Berlin could be implemented. She also highlights synergy effects for various adaptation measures. 41