European Strategies for Adaptation to Climate Change with the Mayors Adapt Initiative by Self-Organizing Maps

Abarca-Alvarez, Francisco Javier; Navarro-Ligero, Miguel Lorenzo; Valenzuela-Montes, Luis Miguel; Campos-Sánchez, Francisco Sergio

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European Strategies for Adaptation to Climate Change with the Mayors Adapt Initiative by Self-Organizing Maps

Francisco Javier Abarca-Alvarez

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Miguel Lorenzo Navarro-Ligero

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Luis Miguel Valenzuela-Montes

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Francisco Sergio Campos-Sánchez

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Department of Urban and Spatial Planning, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain

Higher Technical School of Architecture, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain

Higher Technical School of Civil Engineering, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain

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Appl. Sci. 2019, 9(18), 3859; https://doi.org/10.3390/app9183859

Received: 17 August 2019 / Revised: 10 September 2019 / Accepted: 10 September 2019 / Published: 13 September 2019

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Trends of Sustainability in Civil Engineering and Architecture)

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The European Union (EU) has assigned municipal governments a key role in the transformations needed to achieve its climate and energy objectives. One of the main initiatives of the EU has been the “The Covenant of Mayors”, launched in 2008, with impacts beyond Europe due to integration with the “Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy”. This research focuses on local measures to adapt to climate change, verifying their differences between themselves, and aims to identify and characterize patterns in the different adaptation strategies examined. Further aims are (i) the collection of good practices, framed in the Mayors Adapt initiative, managing multidimensional data from the context and from its adaptation proposals; (ii) the classification of strategies in profiles and patterns using artificial neural networks based on the previous variables; (iii) the characterization and comparison of such profiles. The results substantiate the existence of several well-differentiated approaches, connected with their geographical context, vulnerability and politics. These results provide valuable information for its interpretation and for the planning of climate change adaptation actions, highlighting the value of the creation of networks of institutional collaboration targeted at each strategic framework. View Full-Text

Keywords: European policies; climate change; adaptation; profiles; pattern; Artificial Intelligence; Self-Organizing Maps; sustainability; urban planning

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Abarca-Alvarez, F.J.; Navarro-Ligero, M.L.; Valenzuela-Montes, L.M.; Campos-Sánchez, F.S. European Strategies for Adaptation to Climate Change with the Mayors Adapt Initiative by Self-Organizing Maps. Appl. Sci. 2019, 9, 3859. https://doi.org/10.3390/app9183859

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Abarca-Alvarez FJ, Navarro-Ligero ML, Valenzuela-Montes LM, Campos-Sánchez FS. European Strategies for Adaptation to Climate Change with the Mayors Adapt Initiative by Self-Organizing Maps. Applied Sciences. 2019; 9(18):3859. https://doi.org/10.3390/app9183859

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Abarca-Alvarez, Francisco J., Miguel L. Navarro-Ligero, Luis M. Valenzuela-Montes, and Francisco S. Campos-Sánchez 2019. "European Strategies for Adaptation to Climate Change with the Mayors Adapt Initiative by Self-Organizing Maps" Applied Sciences 9, no. 18: 3859. https://doi.org/10.3390/app9183859

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