Abstract

With the accelerating pace of climate change, there has been no scarcity of research, in recent years, that assess climate risks and cost-effectiveness of adaptation measures in the transport sector. Nevertheless, existing literature associated with adaptation planning for climate change is still at an embryonic stage with little attention on certain potential dilemmas. Understanding such, this paper focuses on the question of how to respond to the barriers in climate adaptation planning in transport systems. This is achieved mainly through reviewing the literature in transport adaptation to climate change impacts to summarize eights conditions (potential barriers) that the shortage of those might lead to the failure of climate adaptation planning. Next, those conditions are examined by a historical case study between 2014 and 2015 on the Canadian port of Montreal's experience in tackling the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River's dropping water level. The findings, via semi-structured interviews with affiliated senior experts, closely mirror the enablers influencing the success of a climate adaptation plan, revealing the impediments and opportunities in the existing and future planning. It offers constructive recommendations on how to improve the port of Montreal’s, and ports and transport infrastructures in general, process and practice of adaptation planning. The study strives to bridge the research gaps and provide decision-makers with a novel thinking pattern and workable recommendations from design, implementation to the reconstruction of adaptation planning and facilitate a paradigm shift in broader sustainable transport management.

摘要

近年来，随着气候变化步伐的加快，评估交通部门气候风险和适应措施成本效益的研究并不稀缺。然而，与气候变化适应规划相关的现有文献仍处于萌芽阶段，很少关注某些潜在的困境。了解这一点后，本文重点关注如何应对交通系统气候适应规划中的障碍。这主要通过回顾交通适应气候变化影响的文献来总结八个条件（潜在障碍），这些条件的短缺可能导致气候适应规划的失败。下一个，2014 年至 2015 年间，加拿大港口蒙特利尔在解决五大湖和圣劳伦斯河水位下降问题方面的经验，对这些情况进行了研究。通过对附属高级专家的半结构化访谈，调查结果密切反映了影响气候适应计划成功的推动因素，揭示了现有和未来规划中的障碍和机遇。它就如何改善蒙特利尔港口、港口和运输基础设施、适应规划的过程和实践提供了建设性的建议。该研究致力于弥合研究差距，并为决策者提供新颖的思维模式和可行的设计建议，