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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


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)


UNECE HLM Areas of Work

Projects DRS(s) SCC(s) EE(s) WIDESPREAD


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


Housing Assets and Lives at Risk

100 MILLION PEOPLE in the UNECE region

spend more than

40%

of their disposable income on

HOUSING

UNISDR


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


Thank you

Michele Melchiorri Housing and Land Management Unit Forests, Housing and Land Division United Nations Economic Commission for Europe [email protected]

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