A (in)eficácia das políticas europeias e nacionais para prevenir os riscos causados pelas manifestações de mudança climática nos espaços urbanos

• Autor(a) principal: Monteiro, Ana
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Outros Autores: Almeida, Mário, Velho, Sara, Fonseca, Luís
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/83127

It is common to emphasize that the Mediterranean temperate climates are mild although irregular (Monteiro, 2013b , p . 269) . However, century temperature records of the Porto - Serra do Pilar station show that this bias can be a fallacious mistake (Monteiro, 2013 b, p. 269), and that in such environments the stress on human health can cause severe worsening of pre-existent disease sor even be the reason for the emergence of others.The difficulty starts immediately by selecting the most appropriate criterion in each climatic context to identify and count the number of extreme heat episodes. This choice will greatly influence the assessment of the seriousness of the risk and of course the outlined policies to prevent their effects at local, regional and global scaleA perusal of the way climate is treated in European and national policies can be a good help to understand some of the reasons why the chosen strategies, especially in the southern countries of Europe as Portugal, have been completely ineffective.In this contribution we propose an analysis of the more recent policies and suggestion of the needed design changes to make them truly effective to prevent climate risks. To accomplish this commitment it is very important a detailed definition of: i ) the aspirations and goals into concrete , ii ) the site and the spatial and temporal scale at which it is operationalized iii ) who will win her iv ) the skills needed to finish .The results obtained in the project ERA NET URBAN/0001/2009 (Potential impact of climate trends and weather extremes on outdoor thermal comfort in European cities - implications for sustainable urban design) applied to the Porto Metropolitan Area will be the anchor for the demonstration of the huge potential of binding climate and urban planning.