1. Lasting community wellbeing and climate change:
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Lasting community wellbeing and climate change:
Cases from Lisbon and Tokyo
Yoichi Kumagai and Maria Partidario

2. Objective of presentation
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Objective of presentation
We introduce an inter-scaling analytical framework for lasting community wellbeing (LCW) and climate change, and compare major plans addressing the issue from Lisbon and Tokyo.
The question was whether or not the two cities have done forward planning that addresses considerations in LCW and climate change mitigation and adaptation in an integrated manner.

3. Operational definition of LCW
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Operational definition of LCW
Lasting
Prolonged, with behavior change and acknowledgement of culture (policy, governance)
What is that we want to last
Equitable, good-quality and lasting health, security, learning, jobs, recreation, housing, green space, food, respect-based friendliness, and preparedness for surprises …(developed as a synthesis of literature on LCW and more generic requirements for sustainability and professional experience)

4. Key features of LCW (we proposed last year)
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Key features of LCW (we proposed last year)
Sense of place – sense of belonging, individual feeling of autonomy, social- ecological integration (linked to livelihood activities such as local commerce, artisan production, local public amenities and life support services, inclusive activities)
Urban farming – food (including aquaculture), flowers, markets, ecological services (protected, for example, by retaining permeable surfaces)
Vicinity– physical and mental accessibility, less commuting (walk, bike, trams and other soft transportation), feeling that desired amenities are close by
Safety – reduction of seismic and flooding risks, crime prevention, traffic safety
Learning – capacity building, community deliberation.

5. Lens to look into climate change
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LCW key features –
Lens to look into climate change
Sense of place– reduced resource consumption with individual behaviour change, linked with livelihood activities
Urban farming – increased permeability, preparedness for disturbances such as floods, heats and ecosystem changes (adaptation), adding plants (mitigation)
Vicinity– reduced trips of people, goods and services, increased security in case of disasters
Safety – increased safety through adaptation and mitigation activities (floods, traffic accidents, food shortages, etc).
Learning – community-based efforts for behaviour change (with opportunity for rehabilitating community)

6. Kumagai and Partidario 37th Annual Conference of the International Association for Impact Assessment 3-7 April 2017 | Montreal, Canada
The main question
Have considerations of LCW and climate change mitigation and adaptation been integrated (especially in a way that considers how climate change related initiatives can also serve other long-term community wellbeing objectives)?
….in Tokyo and Lisbon

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Tokyo
Whitepapers from Ministry of Environment and Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (both 2016), and Saitama prefecture (2015) has sections suggesting above.
They also recognize government-led public behaviour change is the key. But the notion does not link to LCW.
Behaviour change has not been quick enough to obviously transform the entrenched priority on economic growth.
Discourse has started among some of the national- and prefecture-level policy makers with a recognition that rehabilitating damaged forests, farmlands and river systems (“biodiversity”) can integrate climate change mitigation and adaptation and LCW

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Lisbon
City region not revealing concrete action to make national strategies and measures concrete at that scale.
City of Lisbon - short to medium term local strategic initiatives and urban planning measures
Local strategy for climate change (under development, public consultation in January 2017) – mostly about risk diagnosis and short to medium term changes.
Lisbon Municipal master plan (2012) features increasing green space (improving urban run-off capacity, recreation and production through improved permeability and urban farming), neighborhood regeneration and requalification (proximity of services by foot and bicycle).
ClimAdaPT.Local (Portuguese Carbon Fund initiative) focused on carbon emmissions, climatic events, adaptation measures, with discourse on lifestyle change.

9. Conclusions and implications
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Conclusions and implications
The discourse has started to recognize benefit of integrating LCW and climate change mitigation and adaptation. It also emphasizes importance of behaviour change at individual and household levels as well as wider neighbourhood and city-region scales.
Strategy aiming the integration is not in the core of plans and policies. Entrenched priority remains.
Behaviour change at multiple scales is not yet obviously happening.

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Thank you