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SNACC: Suburban neighbourhood adaptation for a changing climate: identifying effective, practical and acceptable means of suburban re-design
Prof. Katie Williams, University of the West of England (UWE)
AIM: The proposed research answers the question: how can existing suburban neighbourhoods be best adapted to reduce further impacts of climate change and withstand ongoing changes?
Objectives:
- Develop climate change scenarios that are meaningful at the suburban neighbourhood scale.
- Develop socio-cultural and governance change scenarios appropriate at the suburban neighbourhood scale.
- Construct a typology of UK suburbs (identifying the 'latent' adaptation capacity of their built forms)
- Develop a portfolio of potential adaptation (and mitigation) strategies for suburbs (including autonomous and planned adaptations, for individual dwellings and neighbourhoods) and cluster these into testable adaptation 'packages'.
- Develop a hedonic model to determine the impact of adaptation strategies on house prices in suburbs.
- Determine the technical performance of the adaptation strategy 'packages', based on a number of criteria, including their impact on carbon reduction and the extent to which they ameliorate specific impacts (e.g. reduce heat or provide shade).
- Determine the practicality of the adaptations (in terms of costs, scale, extent of re-modelling) for key agents of change.
- Determine the acceptability of the adaptations (in terms of impact on house prices, visual intrusion, relative trade-offs between cost and benefits) for key agents of change.
- Identify the adaptation packages that perform best across the three tests for different types of suburbs, with different adaptation capacities, given the different climate change and socio-cultural and governance change scenarios.
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