Major Cities and Climate Change - Dubai

Floods and Rain:

Dubai Urban Expansion:

Population 1950 to 1956

Old Images:

Modern Day / Dubai:

Key Challenges facing Dubai:

Dubai’s 2040 Urban Master Plan has certain challenges that must be addressed. Let us talk about some of these challenges –

• The population of Dubai is expected to grow rapidly under the Dubai 2040 Urban Master Plan. The challenge will be to accommodate several people without compromising on the quality of life and, at the same time, meeting the sustainability goals.
• To ensure the master plan is successfully implemented, changes to existing laws and regulations can be required. It will be a challenge to ensure a smooth transition. Since most of the UAE is dry land, the country faces several environmental challenges.
• The biggest challenge is not having enough water resources. Dubai will need smart solutions to achieve sustainable development goals.
• Land zoning encompasses regulations that hinge on specific land attributes. These include its dimensions, the quantity of constructed buildings, their elevation, and the floor area ratio. It creates a legal foundation for real-estate developers.
• Financial investment at a large scale will be required for infrastructure development, increased transport facilities, the creation of green areas, etc. The challenge will be to ensure that the funding is steady and the expenses are managed effectively.

Source - https://www.dubai-sensor.com/blog/major-challenges-facing-dubai-and-the-uae/ or https://www.squareyards.ae/blog/dubai-2040-urban-master-plan-misart

Future Flood Mitigation / Dubai

“It’s a real tradeoff in thinking about the cost and the opportunity costs,”?said?Linda Shi, an assistant professor specializing in urban climate adaptation at Cornell University in?the US. “These events are likely to be erratic and unpredictable.”??

The UAE?was battered on Tuesday by its?heaviest downpour since records began in 1949. Scientists and weather forecasters attribute the storm to a large amount of moisture rising from warming seas to the atmosphere, before falling as rain?over to the Arabian Peninsula.

El Ni?o, the climate phenomenon that makes?seas warmer and alters weather patterns globally, may have affected the storm. Climate change can’t be ruled out as a factor, though more detailed studies are needed to establish its exact influence, several climatologists and forecasters told?Bloomberg Green.?

“While massive floods like this have occurred in the past, the huge scale and intensity of the rainfall that caused it are exactly what we are seeing more of in our warmer world,” said Hannah Cloke, a professor of hydrology at the University of Reading in the UK. “With so much rain falling all at once, even carefully designed drainage systems will struggle to cope.”? ?

The floods drew immediate attention to the?UAE’s cloud-seeding program, which involves injecting particles into clouds that can influence rainfall. But it?will take “significant data analysis”?to ascertain the role, if any,?it played in?making the rains more extreme, according to Auroop Ganguly, a civil and environmental engineering professor at?Northeastern University in Boston. “Often major floods in a city relate to urban drainage and related infrastructures,” he said.

Excellent work by BNN Bloomberg

Source - https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/dubai-floods-expose-weaknesses-to-a-rapidly-changing-climate-1.2061617

Coastal cities continue to face many challenges including those that are surrounded by dry and desert conditions. Urban planning need to revisit water management as part of mitigating the impact of floods.

Lessons learn are key mitigating the impact of future weather events:

Embracing Proactive Preparedness: The floods in Dubai underscored the imperative for proactive preparedness in the face of escalating climate risks. Organisations must pivot from reactive crisis management approaches towards proactive risk mitigation strategies.

Paul is a former IBM Customer Success Manager that has deployed over 300 data and AI solutions across geographies and industries for over 8 years. Paul is SME on data management including how best to leverage data as part of the integrated planning and reporting cycle.

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