Optimizing historic preservation under climate change: Decision support for cultural resource adaptation planning in national parks

Climate change adaptation strategies for resource management and conservation planning.

Recent rapid changes in the Earth's climate have altered ecological systems around the globe. Global warming has been linked to changes in physiology, phenology, species distributions, interspecific interactions, and disturbance regimes. Projected future climate change will undoubtedly result in even more dramatic shifts in the states of many ecosystems. These shifts will provide one of the lar...

Integrating Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation with Urban planning for a Livable city in Tehran

Climate change impacts are seen within growing numbers of cities in low- and middle-income countries, so there is growing interest in the adaptation and mitigation plans and programs put forward by city authorities. This paper aims to provide a better understanding of the constraints which cities face them in this subject by analyzing the case of Tehran. City has a commitment to decentralizatio...

Beyond Mitigation: Planning for Climate Change Adaptation

Preservation Services Planning: A Decision Support Framework

Commercial organizations are experiencing a growing need to access business-critical data in the longer term of their operations. Governmental regulations as well as commercial interests influence this need. Organizations are willing to procure cost-effective services to this end services that are increasingly based as public or private cloud solutions. With the advent of autonomous cloud servi...

Low Impact Development Planning and Adaptation Decision-Making under Climate Change for a Community against Pluvial Flooding

This study integrates and develops methods, namely low impact development (LID) selection method and an LID spatial planning model, to enable decision-making to minimize pluvial flooding for a community. The objective is to minimize the flood risk under the worst case of the design storm within the budget constraints. Design storms in current and future climate scenarios are analyzed as input t...