英文摘要 |
Urban development planning has diverse, complex and inevitably conflicting goals. Because of the intensified impact of interaction between urbanization and climate change, urban development planning must address the influence of both climate change adaptation and mitigation. The feedback process in policymaking for urban planning considering climate change has become one of the most significant themes in urbanization and environmental change research. Furthermore, the“synergy”and“trade-offs”of climate change policies are clearly defined in IPCC AR4 and AR5. This study mainly focuses on investigating the complex relationship between climate change mitigation and adaptation in conjunction with urban development planning. Synergy is defined as a double-positive effect of urban development planning on both climate change mitigation and adaptation. Conversely, conditions with both positive and negative effects are defined as trade-offs. Considering the urban development process in the Taipei Metropolitan Area based on carbon dioxide emissions and flood hazards, this study investigates whether the effects of urban development planning for climate change mitigation and adaptation result in synergies or trade-offs. The findings show that relevant urban development planning such as urbanization, transportation and flood protection programs most likely result in trade-off conditions between climate change mitigation and adaptation. The urbanization program has incurred the most evident effects amongst these programs owing to large-scale development increasing carbon dioxide emissions and flooding areas. Even the public transportation railway project, which is intended to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, may produce considerable emissions during construction. Additionally, induced urban development may result in an increased climate change impact on the city. A larger scale of flood protection program gives greater for flood-prone areas, but also amplifies carbon dioxide emissions during construction. The flood protection program does not currently seem synergistic against climate change. Therefore, we suggest that future studies should analyze the causality of synergies and trade-offs between the urbanization, transportation and flood protection programs based on a systematic perspective. |