TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Vögt, Verena
A1  - Harrs, Jan-Albrecht
A1  - Reinhart, Vanessa
A1  - Hollenbach, Pia
A1  - Bühler, Michael Max
A1  - Tewes, Tim
T1  - Implementing Agile Data Workflows to Unlock Climate-Resilient Urban Planning
JF  - Climate
N2  - Cities around the world are facing the implications of a changing climate as an increasingly pressing issue. The negative effects of climate change are already being felt today. Therefore, adaptation to these changes is a mission that every city must master. Leading practices worldwide demonstrate various urban efforts on climate change adaptation (CCA) which are already underway. Above all, the integration of climate data, remote sensing, and in situ data is key to a successful and measurable adaptation strategy. Furthermore, these data can act as a timely decision support tool for municipalities to develop an adaptation strategy, decide which actions to prioritize, and gain the necessary buy-in from local policymakers. The implementation of agile data workflows can facilitate the integration of climate data into climate-resilient urban planning. Due to local specificities, (supra)national, regional, and municipal policies and (by) laws, as well as geographic and related climatic differences worldwide, there is no single path to climate-resilient urban planning. Agile data workflows can support interdepartmental collaboration and, therefore, need to be integrated into existing management processes and government structures. Agile management, which has its origins in software development, can be a way to break down traditional management practices, such as static waterfall models and sluggish stage-gate processes, and enable an increased level of flexibility and agility required when urgent. This paper presents the findings of an empirical case study conducted in cooperation with the City of Constance in southern Germany, which is pursuing a transdisciplinary and trans-sectoral co-development approach to make management processes more agile in the context of climate change adaptation. The aim is to present a possible way of integrating climate data into CCA planning by changing the management approach and implementing a toolbox for low-threshold access to climate data. The city administration, in collaboration with the University of Applied Sciences Constance, the Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS), and the University of Stuttgart, developed a co-creative and participatory project, CoKLIMAx, with the objective of integrating climate data into administrative processes in the form of a toolbox. One key element of CoKLIMAx is the involvement of the population, the city administration, and political decision-makers through targeted communication and regular feedback loops among all involved departments and stakeholder groups. Based on the results of a survey of 72 administrative staff members and a literature review on agile management in municipalities and city administrations, recommendations on a workflow and communication structure for cross-departmental strategies for resilient urban planning in the City of Constance were developed.
KW  - Climate change
KW  - Climate resilience
KW  - Climate policies and strategies
KW  - Urban adaptation to global climate change
KW  - Data analytics
KW  - Agile administration
KW  - Digital transformation
Y1  - 2023
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:kon4-opus4-49559
SN  - 2225-1154
SS  - 2225-1154
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3390/cli11090174
DO  - https://doi.org/10.3390/cli11090174
N1  - Corresponding author: Verena Vögt
VL  - 11
IS  - 9
SP  - 22
S1  - 22
PB  - MDPI AG
CY  - Basel, CH
ER  -