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Integrating climate adaptation into asset management planning – Assessing the adaptation potential and opportunities of an urban area in Bangkok

Polpat Nilubon, William Veerbeek, Chris Zevenbergen

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Most cities are at risk of climate change related disasters and flood frequencies and impacts are increasing the need for adaptation. Apart from these large scale interventions imposed by the central government, small-scale interventions taken at the neighborhood or household level could further contribute to mitigate future flood risk and to enhance the flood resilience of the city of Bangkok as a whole. Interventions taken at the local scale are often referred to as autonomous adaptation and may eventually lead to maladaptation if these individual actions are not coordinated and aligned with interventions taken at the larger scale (city level) and even beyond. This paper aims to identify and value the adaptation potential of existing (local) infrastructure, buildings and public spaces which may arise from autonomous local scale retrofitting and maintenance activities. A flood prone district of Bangkok. Lad Krabang district, has been used to provide a concrete context for this case study. The adaptation potential depends largely on (i) the lifespan and lifecycle of the individual elements of the existing urban infrastructure and (ii) the potential synergies which may arise from taking these individual elements together in one aggregated and integrated adaptation intervention (cluster). A lifecycle-based assessment method has been developed to assess the adaptation potential identified in the case study area for the time period 2014-2064 for the coming 5 decades.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/jwre.v4i2.462

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