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The Interplay between Land Management and DRR/CCA information for policy making A perspective from the UNECE region Michele Melchiorri May 26, 2015
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About UNECE
56 member States in Europe, Central Asia and North America One of the five ECOSOC Regional Commissions
Intergovernmental platform for policy dialogue and best practices dissemination Regional thematic studies
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About UNECE and DRR UNECE Works to ensure economic progress go hand in hand with a better Disaster Risk Management
• Housing and Land Management policies for resilient communities
• Standards and Regulatory Frameworks for DRR (WP6) • Environmental assessments help prevent disasters (SEA
Protocol & Espoo Convention) • Preserving human rights in disaster situations (Aarhus
Convention) • Ninety per cent of disasters are water-related (Water
Convention) • Industrial accidents cross borders (Industrial Accident
Convention) • Measurement of extreme events and disasters (Statistical
division) • Forests’ key protecting functions (UNECE-FAO Forests
division)
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UNECE HLM Areas of Work
Projects DRS(s) SCC(s) EE(s) WIDESPREAD
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Housing Strategy and Charter
To improve the resilience of buildings to natural and human-generated disasters To balance the competing demand for and limited supply of available land, minimize the loss of rural land and increase the efficient use of urban land Mandate for: Housing disaster preparedness & Resilient
planning
To Limit the negative impact of housing on the environment To Improve the resilience of buildings to natural and human-generated hazards through safety planning, design and construction To Intensify the regional and international exchange of experience and cooperation in, urban planning and land management
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Housing Assets and Lives at Risk
100 MILLION PEOPLE in the UNECE region
spend more than
40%
of their disposable income on
HOUSING
UNISDR
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Housing and Land Management and Urban Planning The Committee promotes sustainable cities
with an integrated approach to planning Compact - Efficient - Inclusive - Low-Carbon -
Disaster resilient Cities Spatial Planning is key
Influences spatial distribution of activities
Defines the territorial organization of land uses
Balance the demand for development and environmental management
Helps achieving economic and social objectives acting on their spatial dimension
Planning
• The process of setting goals, developing strategies, outlining the implementation arrangements and allocating resources to achieve those goals (UNDP)
Institutional awareness
• Integration of climate change adaptation and mitigation measures in existing planning processes
• Use of contemporary technology to build risk awareness and information
Resilient urban planning
• Development of plans specifically for climate change adaptation and mitigation
• Integrate hazard-exposure-vulnerability information in decision making and land policy
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UNECE and Spatial Planning Spatial Planning Key Instrument for Development and Effective Governance, UNECE 2008
Providing guidance to improve spatial planning systems in the UNECE Region, especially in Countries in transition considering:
• Principles of spatial planning (6 principles)
• Roles and responsibilities (allocation of competences)
• Components of spatial planning systems (tools, directives, enforcement, spatial strategies and environmental assessment
• Recommendations for stronger and more effective systems (encouraging debate, legal frameworks, guidance and guidelines for spatial planning)
TRANSFERABILITY OF POLICIES
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Transferability of Policies Components for Exchange Transferability
Ideas Principles of policy/action
Methods
Techniques
Know-how
Operating rules
Programmes Institutions Modes of organization Practitioners Joint projects
Low
To what extent are... policy instruments, which have proved to be successful in one urban area, transferable to another, given that the latter has a different historical, cultural or political background, or is in another phase of economic development? Are there best practices which are convertible like currencies? If not, how and to what extent must one take account of specific circumstances? ”
Güller, 1996
“People got to discover how sustainable development concepts can be implemented in reality. But you often heard them say, OK, this is marvelous, but it’s not for us, or it’s not for us right now. It’s a dream, it’s another world... we have nothing in common. ”
Pojani & Stead, 2015
High
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Transferability of Policies
Lack of coordination
Lack of leadership and political support
Limited monitoring and evaluation policies
Scientific complexity and uncertainty
Economic costs and benefits of climate change policy
UNFCCC
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Importance of Technology for Innovative Policies UNECE Housing and Land Management is not a Geospatial information provider however
supports the use of mapping as tools to improve:
• Communication and awareness raising tool
• Evidences for policy formulation
• Support to decision making
• Spatialization of findings and
recommendations
• Monitoring of progress
UNECE HLM started a cooperation with JRC, GEO and GIS, Modeling and Remote Sensing Experts
INFORMED DECISION MAKING
JRC IPSC
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Building Resilient Communities trough Urban Planning and the Integration of Natural Sciences
Supporting hazard and risk data integration into policymaking for inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable cities and human settlements 50+ Participants including ECE Governments’ and national Agencies’ delegates, IOs, Academia and private sector
TYPE OF HAZARD AND VULNERABILITY DATA
Aggregate risk index (decision makers)
Disaggregate risk index (urban planners)
Digital data format (dynamic and interoperable)
Uncertain time-frame
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Urban Planning and Science Integration in Decision Making Need to implement Multi-Hazard risk assessment in the urban planning process
Technical gaps • fragmentation of information (single hazards)
• lack of multi-scale and multi-temporal analysis
Institutional/governance gaps
• difficulties to include hazard analysis in land planning
• lack of multi-risk governance and coordination among authorities
Technological approach supports the integration and demonstration of findings
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Thank you
Michele Melchiorri Housing and Land Management Unit Forests, Housing and Land Division United Nations Economic Commission for Europe [email protected]