The most visible effect of climate change for citizens in Aarhus is flooding. Flooding can occur in different areas due to three types of events, either individually or simultaneously: cloudbursts, rising groundwater, and elevated sea levels. Surface water can increase significantly during cloudbursts. Aarhus is partly located in a river valley with slopes and flow paths from both…
Across Birmingham, different neighbourhoods experience climate‑related pressures in different ways. Flooding continues to be a major issue in several parts of the city, whether from river levels rising, more frequent heavy downpours, or surface water building up on streets. Hotter summers are also becoming more noticeable, particularly in areas with limited tree cover or large expanses of hard…
Newham is one of the most climate vulnerable parts of the UK, with poor air quality, high urban heat island effect and a recent history of flooding. In the pilot area, flash flooding in 2021 caused multiple road closures and forced the A&E department of Newham Hospital to close. The pilot area is also divided horizontally by the…
Climate change has brought three major risks: the risk of flooding, in the event of heavy rainfall, even of short duration, affecting the entire Parma and Baganza river basins; the risk of water scarcity, in the event of long periods of drought; the risk of heatwaves in urban areas, with extreme temperatures lasting for several consecutive days…
In recent years, Kielce has clearly been feeling the effects of climate change. Summers are becoming hotter, especially in densely built areas where the urban heat island effect is more noticeable. At the same time, we are observing greater seasonal variability, including intense rainfall events that can lead to local flooding. In central areas with a high…
It affects directly the citizens health and increases the population vulnerability. In some parts of the city, namely the ones where this phenomenon has a high expression in houses where older citizens and vulnerable population lives and because of their social condition, they don’t have means to perform interventions in their houses to reduce the energy poverty, so this affects directly the thermal comfort, during…
