Oliver Heidrich

@article{2060,

title = {Retrofitting options for wastewater networks to achieve climate change reduction targets},

author = {S Velasquez-Orta and O Heidrich and K Black and D Graham},

url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306261918303027},

doi = {10.1016/j.apenergy.2018.02.168},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-01-01},

journal = {Applied Energy},

volume = {218},

pages = {430-441},

chapter = {430},

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@article{1978,

title = {A critical review of the developments in building adaptability},

author = {O Heidrich and J Kamara and S Maltese and F R Cecconi and M C Dejaco},

doi = {10.1108/IJBPA-03-2017-0018},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-01-01},

journal = {International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation},

volume = {35},

pages = {284-303},

chapter = {284},

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@article{1677,

title = {Environmental assessment of 9 European public bus transportation systems},

author = {E A Nanaki and C J Koroneos and J Roset and T Susca and T H )[ Christensen and De Gregorio S Hurtado and A Rybka and J )[ Kopitovic and O Heidrich and Amparo P Lopez-Jimenez},

doi = {DOI: 10.1016/j.scs.2016.08.025},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-01-01},

abstract = {<p>The transportation sector is one of the largest sources of EUs greenhouse gas emissions. In 2011, transportation represented approximately 25 percent of total EUs greenhouse gas emissions. Urban mobility accounts for 40% of all CO2 emissions of road transport and up to 70% of other pollutants from transport. As, transportation and mobility play a crucial part both in urban economics and the quality of life, it is of great significance to ensure a low carbon transportation sector, so as to deal with the threat that climate change poses to urban areas. This study examines the factors that affect the production of carbon dioxide (CO2) as well as of air pollutants, in 9 major European cities, aiming to provide a comprehensive overview of the actual knowledge on the atmospheric pollution from public transportation systems. CO2 emissions as well as air pollutants, such as CO, HC, PM, NOx are calculated for the diesel and CNG bus fleets of the European cities under study. Finally the environmental benefits, in terms of CO2 and CO, HC, PM, NOx emissions reductions, from the penetration of different biodiesel blends (from B10 to B100) to the bus fleets are estimated. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.</p>},

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@article{1650,

title = {Costs of sea dikes - regressions and uncertainty estimates},

author = {Stephan Lenk and Diego Rybski and Oliver Heidrich and Richard J )[ Dawson and Juergen P Kropp},

doi = {DOI: 10.5194/nhess-17-765-2017},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-01-01},

abstract = {<p>Failure to consider the costs of adaptation strategies can be seen by decision makers as a barrier to implementing coastal protection measures. In order to validate adaptation strategies to sea-level rise in the form of coastal protection, a consistent and repeatable assessment of the costs is necessary. This paper significantly extends current knowledge on cost estimates by developing - and implementing using real coastal dike data - probabilistic functions of dike costs. Data from Canada and the Netherlands are analysed and related to published studies from the US, UK, and Vietnam in order to provide a reproducible estimate of typical sea dike costs and their uncertainty. We plot the costs divided by dike length as a function of height and test four different regression models. Our analysis shows that a linear function without intercept is sufficient to model the costs, i.e. fixed costs and higher-order contributions such as that due to the volume of core fill material are less significant. We also characterise the spread around the regression models which represents an uncertainty stemming from factors beyond dike length and height. Drawing an analogy with project cost overruns, we employ log-normal distributions and calculate that the range between 3x and x/3 contains 95% of the data, where x represents the corresponding regression value. We compare our estimates with previously published unit costs for other countries. We note that the unit costs depend not only on the country and land use (urban/non-urban) of the sites where the dikes are being constructed but also on characteristics included in the costs, e.g. property acquisition, utility relocation, and project management. This paper gives decision makers an order of magnitude on the protection costs, which can help to remove potential barriers to develop-ing adaptation strategies. Although the focus of this research is sea dikes, our approach is applicable and transferable to other adaptation measures.</p>},

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@article{1601,

title = {National climate policies across Europe and their impacts on cities strategies},

author = {O Heidrich and D Reckien and M Olazabal and A Foley and M Salvia and De Gregorio S Hurtado and H Orru and J Flacke and D Geneletti and F Pietrapertosa and J Hamann and A Tiwary and E Feliu and R Dawson},

url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301479715303972},

doi = {10.1016/j.jenvman.2015.11.043},

year  = {2016},

date = {2016-03-01},

journal = {Journal of Environmental Management},

volume = {168},

pages = {36-45},

chapter = {36},

abstract = {<p>Globally, efforts are underway to reduce anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and to adapt to climate change impacts at the local level. However, there is a poor understanding of the relationship between city strategies on climate change mitigation and adaptation and the relevant policies at national and European level. This paper describes a comparative study and evaluation of cross-national policy. It reports the findings of studying the climate change strategies or plans from 200 European cities from Austria, Belgium, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom. The study highlights the shared responsibility of global, European, national, regional and city policies. An interpretation and illustration of the influences from international and national networks and policy makers in stimulating the development of local strategies and actions is proposed. It was found that there is no archetypical way of planning for climate change, and multiple interests and motivations are inevitable. Our research warrants the need for a multi-scale approach to climate policy in the future, mainly ensuring sufficient capacity and resource to enable local authorities to plan and respond to their specific climate change agenda for maximising the management potentials for translating environmental challenges into opportunities.</p>},

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@article{1761,

title = {How do cities support electric vehicles and what difference does it make?},

author = {O Heidrich and GA Hill and M Neaimeh and Y Huebner and PT Blythe and RJ Dawson},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85020412043&doi=10.1016%2fj.techfore.2017.05.026&origin=inward&txGid=17792482C90019B2C865429412A648B8.wsnAw8kcdt7IPYLO0V48gA%3a19},

doi = {10.1016/j.techfore.2017.05.026},

year  = {2016},

date = {2016-01-01},

journal = {Technological Forecasting and Social Change},

abstract = {<p>Many cities publish climate change mitigation strategies and other policy measures to support the wide spread uptake of Electric Vehicles (EVs). This paper investigates the effectiveness of these strategies and the provision of infrastructures in 30 UK cities, with a specific emphasis on those strategies that are within the remit of cities and local authorities. The climate mitigation strategies and supporting documents were obtained from 30 UK cities recommended by the Urban Audit Methodology. We show that 13 cities mention EVs in their strategies. Analysing EV registrations and the EV infrastructures that is provided by cities we found that there is no statistical difference in the number of charging points or EVs between the cities that have EVs as part of their climate change mitigation strategy and those that do not. It was shown that EV uptake was more generally associated with other factors (such as local vehicle population or income) rather than any documented EV/climate mitigation strategy. We demonstrate that local strategies are failing in achieving the much needed step change and make suggestions how to improve EV uptake as an even more radical thinking and policies may become necessary to achieve carbon reduction targets. textcopyright 2017.</p>},

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@article{758b,

title = {Climate Change, Adaptation and Eco-Art in Singapore},

author = {S Guy and V Henshaw and O Heidrich},

year  = {2015},

date = {2015-01-01},

journal = {Journal of Environmental Planning and Management},

volume = {58},

pages = {39 - 54},

chapter = {39},

abstract = {<p>Eco-Art has recently emerged as a potential means to place emphasis on environmental issues such as climate change, recycling and the metabolism of the city experienced both materially and conceptually within local, regional and global contexts. Such art presents the possibility of shaping civic practices in arenas beyond those of traditional planning domains. Adopting a pragmatic approach, which recognises the contextual pluralism that exists in debates regarding climate change, this paper is interested in how Eco-Art projects encourage the reimagining of urban spaces within the context of sustainability, and flows of materials and the recycling of plastic in art specifically.</p>},

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@article{784,

title = {Climate change response in Europe: Whattextquoterights the reality? Analysis of adaptation and mitigation plans from 200 urban areas in 11 countries},

author = {J Hamann and H Orru and D Geneletti and M Salvia and De Gregorio S Hurtado and F Pietrapertosa and D Reckien and J Flacke and R Dawson and O Heidrich and M Olazabal and A Foley},

year  = {2014},

date = {2014-01-01},

journal = {Climatic Change},

volume = {122},

pages = {331-340},

chapter = {331},

abstract = {<p>Urban areas are pivotal to global adaptation and mitigation efforts. But how do cities actually perform in terms of climate change response? This study sheds light on the state of urban climate change adaptation and mitigation planning across Europe. Europe is an excellent test case given its advanced environmental policies and high urbanization. We performed a detailed analysis of 200 large and medium-sized cities across 11 European countries and analysed the cities&$#$39; climate change adaptation and mitigation plans. We investigate the regional distribution of plans, adaptation and mitigation foci and the extent to which planned greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions contribute to national and international climate objectives. To our knowledge, it is the first study of its kind as it does not rely on self-assessment (questionnaires or social surveys). Our results show that 35 % of European cities studied have no dedicated mitigation plan and 72 % have no adaptation plan. No city has an adaptation plan without a mitigation plan. One quarter of the cities have both an adaptation and a mitigation plan and set quantitative GHG reduction targets, but those vary extensively in scope and ambition. Furthermore, we show that if the planned actions within cities are nationally representative the 11 countries investigated would achieve a 37 % reduction in GHG emissions by 2050, translating into a 27 % reduction in GHG emissions for the EU as a whole. However, the actions would often be insufficient to reach national targets and fall short of the 80 % reduction in GHG emissions recommended to avoid global mean temperature rising by 2 °C above pre-industrial levels. © 2013 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.</p>},

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@article{795,

title = {Psychological factors to motivate sustainable behaviours},

author = {J Harvey and O Heidrich and K Cairns},

year  = {2014},

date = {2014-01-01},

journal = {Proceedings of the ICE - Urban Design and Planning},

abstract = {<p>To encourage sustainable planning processes and behaviours in the engineering profession and the wider public there is an urgent need for policy-makers, urban planners and engineers to consider psychological factors. When urban plans, policies and projects neglect public values and beliefs, projects may be less likely to fulfil the intended aims. This paper investigates the role of psychological factors of belief, risk perception, trust and attitude in the adoption of urban plans and sustainability policies by explaining why these result in inconsistencies in behaviour. Examples are provided from the literature and recent case studies to support this and demonstrate how these factors explain the reluctance of the public to engage in sustainable behaviours. Recommendations are provided for urban planners, central and local government and engineers to achieve and maintain sustainable behaviours by the public and professionals by considering behavioural theories.</p>},

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@article{1578,

title = {Assessment of the climate preparedness of 30 urban areas in the UK},

author = {O Heidrich and R Dawson and D Reckien and C Walsh},

url = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-013-0846-9},

doi = {10.1007/s10584-013-0846-9},

year  = {2013},

date = {2013-07-01},

journal = {Climatic Change},

volume = {120},

pages = {771–784},

chapter = {771},

abstract = {<p>Cities are increasingly aware of the need to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to changes in weather patterns leading to the production of urban climate change plans. The few existing systematic studies of these plans have focused on either adaptation or mitigation issues, and are typically based on surveys completed by city officials rather than analysis of documented evidence. To gain insight into the status of adaptation and mitigation action across the UK, climate change documents from 30 urban areas (representing ~28 % of the UKtextquoterights population) were analysed. An Urban Climate Change Preparedness Score, which could be applied to other urban areas outside the UK, has been devised for comparative analysis. This analysis characterizes progress against (i) Assessment, (ii) Planning, (iii) Action, and (iv) Monitoring, for both adaptation and mitigation. The Preparedness Score allows a quantitative comparison of climate change strategies across the urban areas analysed. This methodology can be transferred to other countries and makes an international comparison of urban areas and their climate change adaptation and mitigation plans possible. We found that all areas acknowledge climate change being a threat and that adaptation and mitigation planning and action is required. However, two urban areas did not have official adaptation or mitigation plans. Typically, mitigation activities across all cities were more advanced than adaptation plans. Emissions reduction targets ranged from 10 %–80 % with differing baselines, timeframes and scopes, for defining and meeting these targets. Similar variability was observed across adaptation plans. Several reasons for these differences are considered, but particularly notable is that a combination of incentives and regulation seem to stimulate more comprehensive strategies and action in many urban areas.</p>},

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@article{759b,

title = {Climate change, adaptation and Eco-Art in Singapore},

author = {S Guy and V Henshaw and O Heidrich},

year  = {2013},

date = {2013-01-01},

journal = {Journal of Environmental Planning and Management},

abstract = {<p>Eco-Art has recently emerged as a potential means to place emphasis on environmental issues such as climate change, recycling and the metabolism of the city experienced both materially and conceptually within local, regional and global contexts. Such art presents the possibility of shaping civic practices in arenas beyond those of traditional planning domains. Adopting a pragmatic approach, which recognises the contextual pluralism that exists in debates regarding climate change, this paper is interested in how Eco-Art projects encourage the re-imagining of urban spaces within the context of sustainability, and flows of materials and the recycling of plastic in art specifically.</p>},

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@article{1181,

title = {Climate change response in Europe: whattextquoterights the reality? Analysis of adaptation and mitigation plans from 200 urban areas in 11 countries},

author = {D Reckien and J Flacke and R Dawson and O Heidrich and M Olazabal and A Foley and J Hamann and H Orru and M Salvia and De Gregorio S Hurtado and D Geneletti and F Pietrapertosa},

year  = {2013},

date = {2013-01-01},

journal = {Climatic Change},

volume = {122},

pages = {331-340},

chapter = {331},

abstract = {<p>Urban areas are pivotal to global adaptation and mitigation efforts. But how do cities actually perform in terms of climate change response? This study sheds light on the state of urban climate change adaptation and mitigation planning across Europe. Europe is an excellent test case given its advanced environmental policies and high urbanization. We performed a detailed analysis of 200 large and medium-sized cities across 11 European countries and analysed the cities’ climate change adaptation and mitigation plans. We investigate the regional distribution of plans, adaptation and mitigation foci and the extent to which planned greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions contribute to national and international climate objectives. To our knowledge, it is the first study of its kind as it does not rely on self-assessment (questionnaires or social surveys). Our results show that 35 % of European cities studied have no dedicated mitigation plan and 72 % have no adaptation plan. No city has an adaptation plan without a mitigation plan. One quarter of the cities have both an adaptation and a mitigation plan and set quantitative GHG reduction targets, but those vary extensively in scope and ambition. Furthermore, we show that if the planned actions within cities are nationally representative the 11 countries investigated would achieve a 37 % reduction in GHG emissions by 2050, translating into a 27 % reduction in GHG emissions for the EU as a whole. However, the actions would often be insufficient to reach national targets and fall short of the 80 % reduction in GHG emissions recommended to avoid global mean temperature rising by 2 °C above pre-industrial levels.</p>},

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