The Strategic approach in planning water cities. National and international best practices

This contribution presents the results of the research by the Department PDTA, Sapienza University of Rome, with the Climate Modeling and Impacts Laboratory, ENEA on the issue of the relationship between climate change and urban planning. The objective is to investigate how urban planning may provide responses to the need for planning the coastal urban settings affected by flooding phenomena as a consequence of sea-level rise (SLR) as a linear and permanent phenomenon, and by river floods as a transient event. The phenomenon of SLR associated with other climate events like storm surges, represents one of the next challenges with which the “world risk society” (Beck 2013) will have to grapple, both for the growing impact on cities and territories, and for the empirical evidence of the economic, social, and environmental damage it causes.