Cities in the Western Balkans are no strangers to great upheavals. They have charted their course through wars, political transformations, and societal shifts, and their ability to endure has emerged as a defining characteristic. Now, as the threat of climate change casts its shadow over the region, the formidable resilience of these cities faces a renewed trial in the face of urgent challenges. This report has three objectives. The first is to describe how cities and climate change are changing, and to identify relationships of interest between these two trends. The second is to analyze how a changing climate is affecting urbanization and how cities themselves contribute to climate change. The third is to prescribe ways for policy makers in national and local governments - working with the private sector and communities - to reshape urban development in ways that will promote greener, more resilient, more inclusive, and more competitive outcomes. Part 1 of the report describes how a changing climate is linked to cities in the region, and what policy makers should do to respond. Part 2 provides a compendium of case studies of 5 cities in the region that provides nuanced data and analysis targeted at country- and city-level policy makers.
Authors
- Citation
- “ World Bank . 2024 . Reshaping Cities: Readying Cities in the Western Balkans for a Changing Climate . © Washington, DC: World Bank . http://hdl.handle.net/10986/42268 License: CC BY-NC 3.0 IGO . ”
- Collection(s)
- Other Environmental Study
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1596/42268
- Identifier externaldocumentum
- 34404744
- Identifier internaldocumentum
- 34404744
- Pages
- 146
- Published in
- United States of America
- Region country
- Western Balkans,South Eastern Europe and Balkans
- Report
- 194141
- Rights
- CC BY-NC 3.0 IGO
- Rights Holder
- World Bank
- Rights URI
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/igo
- UNIT
- Infra ECA Urban (IECUR)
- URI
- https://hdl.handle.net/10986/42268
- date disclosure
- 2024-10-21
- region administrative
- Europe and Central Asia
- theme
- Urban Development,Mitigation,Environment and Natural Resource Management,Climate change,Urban and Rural Development,Adaptation
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Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments 6
- Abbreviations 8
- Executive Summary 10
- Part 1 16
- Main Report 17
- Chapter 1 18
- Where are we now? 19
- Taking Stock of Overall Trends 19
- What do we know about citiesin Western Balkans? 20
- How is climate change affecting WB6 cities? 30
- How are cities affecting climate changein WB6 region? 37
- Chapter 2 42
- What do we know? 43
- Analyzing the underlying drivers 43
- The urban form of citieshas implications for emissions 44
- Green and blue spaces in cities actas carbon and pollution sinks 45
- Lagging service provision generates negative feedback loops, harming the environment along with socioeconomic outcomes 46
- Chapter 3 58
- What do we do? 59
- Pathways for Promoting Green, Resilient, Inclusive and Competitive Cities 59
- GREEN pathways: Shrinking cities arean opportunity to reshape urban space 60
- RESILIENT pathways: WB6 cities must prepare for, mitigate, and adapt to acute shocks and chronic stresses 67
- INCLUSIVE pathways: Design multidimensional and innovative interventions for urban inclusion 71
- COMPETITIVE pathways: Banking on the future of resilient cities 76
- To achieve GRID pathways, climate action in WB6 cities will require multilevel involvement 79
- Part 2 82
- Compendium of City Cases 83
- Chapter 4 84
- City scans 85
- City scan 1 Tirana 86
- City scan 2 Sarajevo 98
- City scan 3 Novi Sad 106
- City scan 4 Niš 117
- City scan 5 Pristina 124
- Annexes 132
- Annex #1 134
- Landslide Hazard Situational Assessment Sarajevo Canton, Bosnia and Herzegovina 135
