MET-CHA

The MET-CHA project analyses the factors conditioning the response and the possibilities of adaptation in metropolitan areas of Valencia and Zaragoza, as an example of second-tier Spanish metropolises, to climate change and its social and environmental consequences, with a triple objective:

1. Studying the factors conditioning the development of mitigation and adaptation strategies, with particular attention to metropolitan socio-economic structure and to environmental commitments, plans and programmes for transformation;
2. Studying the socio-economic processes and mitigation, adaptation or regeneration strategies implemented and associated to environmental challenges and their results in three thematic areas of regenerative development:  The relationship between city and nature, Green economy, transport and energy; Sustainable mobility
3. Drawing lessons for the implementation of mitigation, adaptation and regeneration public strategies and policies and their link to collaborative metropolitan governance models. The methodological approach combines qualitative and quantitative techniques together with an advanced use of Geographic Information Systems and participatory techniques (seminars and focus groups).

All of this seeks to generate scientific-technical knowledge in current debates on mitigation and adaptation strategies and their effect, regenerative urban development, and inequality, poverty and social vulnerability in urban areas. Moreover, methodologically relevant contributions are expected to happen through quantitative modelling of the effects of transition and green growth, and qualitative modelling of metropolitan climate governance.

The experience of the team and its collaboration networks ensure a high international impact of the project results. The project also intends to transfer public policies. To this end, the project includes a large group of entities interested in the two metropolitan areas under study, among which we can found institutions linked to urban strategies in the cities of Valencia and Zaragoza.

In this area, the result of the project will help to redesign the risk scenarios and management of extreme environmental events in metropolitan areas, it will allow the identification of economic opportunities coming from the transition and the green growth, as well as the resources to implement them; it will also help design urban planning solutions to help improve the social wellbeing and the quality of life of the population (regeneration of ecosystems, development of green infrastructures, revitalisation of local commerce); also providing a gender perspective in research and a look in the vulnerable conditions of certain groups (women, children, elderly people). In this way, MET-CHA intends to make a relevant contribution within the thematic priority (2) of the PEICTI 2024-2027, Culture, creativity and inclusive society, particularly from the perspectives of eco-social sustainability (green and social economy) and public policies and governance, as well as the Sustainable Development Goals.

• Pilar Alonso Logroño, Universitat de Lleida
• Angel Pueyo Campos, Universidad de Zaragoza
• Félix Fajardo Magraner, Universitat de València
• Carlos López Escolano, Universidad de Zaragoza
• Eric Gielen, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
• José Sergio Palencia Jiménez, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia

• Céline Rozenblat, Université de Lausanne (Suiza)
• Andrea Ferloni, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia

Proyecto de I+D+i financiado por el Ministerio de Investigación, Ciencia y Universidades. Gobierno de España. Cofinanciado por la Unión Europea.

• MCiencia - Innovation