Greening Regeneration of Urbanized Waterfronts in Delta River Regions

Dear Colleagues,

The scope of this Special Issue focuses on the Sustainable Regeneration of urbanized waterfronts in delta river regions, exploring the opportunities of greening adaptative approaches. Sea-level rise is now a critical reality that affects millions of inhabitants worldwide, living in settlements with varying degrees of vulnerability and resilience. Climate change and sea-level rise challenges have moved toward the need for adaptation responses that the International Panel on Climate Change has categorized along with three models: Protect, Accommodate, and Retreat (IPCC, 1990). This means that the elaboration of future scenarios based on sustainable regeneration approaches will be crucial in waterfront planning and management. This process could follow many possible pathways, depending on physical, environmental, social, and economic contexts. The purpose of the Special Issue is to collect theoretical and practical contributions on solutions that promote the incremental retreat, protection, and accommodation of urban settlement, coupled with the promotion of spatial delimitation of buffer zones to implement green waterfront adaptation plans. Following the principle of accommodating sea-level rise and not trying to hold the line, the green regeneration of urbanized waterfronts must be regarded as a short-term intervention that could provide socioeconomic wellbeing, ecological restoration, and public space renewal at present and not just in the future.

This complex task revolves around several topics, including but not limited to the following:

• Climate change and sea-level rise uncertainty;
• Resilient models for future water cities;
• Social and economic analysis of vulnerable communities in the delta river region;
• Sustainable adaptative waterfront masterplan;
• Planning adaptative green infrastructures;
• Landscape and urban design solutions against rising sea levels;
• Land-use planning, property rights tenure and compensation mechanisms;
• Digitalization tools to support policy making and spatial planning decisions;
• Funding for local authorities;
• GIS and waterfronts adaptation scenarios;
• Cases studies in the delta river region.

Dr. Miguel Amado
Dr. Francesca Poggi
Dr. Evelina Brigite Rodrigues
Guest Editors

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• climate change
• sea-level rise
• sustainable waterfronts
• public policies
• urban design
• GIS
• green regeneration