ZEF Public Lecture: The role of the water-sensitive city concept in building urban resilience and climate change adaptation. A look from a developing city
August 29, 2023 | 13:30 h - 14:30 h
We would like to invite you to a ZEF Public Lecture on August 29, 2023, in room 1.049 (for ZEF colleagues only) at 01:30 PM (CEST) per Zoom.
Speaker: Dr. Juan Pablo Rodríguez, Associate Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia).
Topic: The role of the water-sensitive city concept in building urban resilience and climate change adaptation. A look from a developing city.
The lecture will be held in hybrid mode, so you are also welcome to join us online via Zoom: https://uni-bonn.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5AldOmtpzwoEtHub_CMeznmPyFzO1M4lO1G
Abstract:
Cities are ecosystems of high complexity that integrate several sub-systems (i.e., social, ecological, economic, physical, and political) with interdependent, multiscale energy and matter cycles. It has been identified that urban areas play a pivotal role in achieving sustainable development as they are capable of mitigating long-term negative environmental effects. Nevertheless, poor multidimensional management may exacerbate them. This presentation will outline the water-sensitive city concept and present a multiscale methodology for consolidated urban areas that allows for the analysis of environmental, social, and economic aspects of sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS) implementation. The proposed methodology was coupled with a multi-objective optimization technique to minimize runoff, maximize ecosystem services (e.g., water quality improvement and amenity provision), and minimize costs.
Biography:
Dr. Juan Pablo Rodríguez is an Associate Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia). He holds a Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering from Imperial College London. He has been leading different research projects aimed at providing tools for Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS) and Nature Based Solutions (NbS) planning in developing contexts. Juan Pablo is currently a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Georgia State University.
