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Future urbanization in Asia and potential urban heat risk:
Preliminary studypresented at the
GCP Workshop, University of Tokyo, Japan7-10 December 2015
Peter J. Marcotullio, Carsten Kessler, Carson Farmer, Gabriel Schuster, Jonah Garnick & Douglas Price
Outline
• Introduction• Research design• Preliminary findings• Discussion• Summary, caveats and future work
Introduction
• “There are no real independent urbanization projections to the UN Urbanization Prospects, as alternative scenarios invariably use the UN historical and current data as model inputs and also deploy a comparable methodological framework” (Grubler, 2013)
• The UN currently projection urbanization to 2050, provides urban population numbers and growth rates (for nations) as well as a list of ~1700 cities of 300 thousand or greater (1950-2030)
Introduction to population growth
• What are the UN general trends and predictions for global urbanization?
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Introduction
• What are the UN general trends and predictions for global population?
Total population, 1950-2100
1950 2000 2050 2100WORLD 2 525 779 6 127 700 9 550 945 10 853 849
More developed regions 812 943 1 193 355 1 303 110 1 284 035Less developed regions 1 712 836 4 934 346 8 247 835 9 569 814
AFRICA 228 827 808 304 2 393 175 4 184 577ASIA 1 395 749 3 717 372 5 164 061 4 711 514EUROPE 549 043 729 105 709 067 638 816LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN 167 869 526 278 781 566 736 228NORTHERN AMERICA 171 615 315 417 446 201 513 065OCEANIA 12 675 31 224 56 874 69 648
Total Population (000)
Source: UN DESA, 2012, 2014, Medium Fertility Variant
Introduction
• What is the country level distribution of general trends and prediction for global population?
Total population change 1950 to 2000, by country
Total population change 2000 to 2050, by country
Total population change 2050 to 2100, by country
Introduction
• There are four urbanization scenario/projections to date:– Nicholls et al (2008): extend the UN projections to 2100 applying a
constant fraction (to port cities) at the national level to determine future port-city populations exposed to climate change risk
– Grubler et al (2007): extends the UN urbanization projections to 2100 and develops two additional scenario variants in which the asymptotic urbanization levels are varied to explore the implications of lower urbanization. The three urbanization rate scenarios are then combined with three alternative total population growth scenarios (low, medium and high) to determine the uncertainty range of future urban populations
– Balk et al 2012: applies Grubler et al (2007) data on low elevation coastal zones (LECZ) to 2100
– GEA (2012): extends urbanization scenarios with emphasis on energy issues and normative pathways (where economic, energy and security issues are simultaneously achieved). Based upon UN data and Grubleret al (2007)
Research design
Research designData
• Databases– Temperature (current & 2050)– Spatial population and land boundaries (2010)– Urban areas (2000)– National borders (2000)– UN total and urban population data 2000-2050
Research designData
Variable Database Year Coverage Resolution Source
PopulationGridded Population of the World 4 (GWP4) release 2
(2010)2010 Global
30 arc-second grid cell (~ 1 km at
equator), 0.008333333 DD
http://www.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/gpw-v4/
Urban areasGlobal Rural Urban
Mapping Project (GRUMP) (2005)
1990, 1995, 2000 Global
30 arc-second grid cell (~ 1 km at
equator), 0.008333333 DD
http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/collection/grump-v1
National population
World Population Prospects (2014) 1950-2100 Global nations http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/DVD/
Urbanization World Urbanization Prospects (2014) 1950-2050 Global nations http://esa.un.org/unpd/wup/
NationsGlobal Rural Urban
Mapping Project (GRUMP) (2005)
2000 Global
30 arc-second grid cell (~ 1 km at
equator), 0.008333333 DD
http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/collection/grump-v1
Temperature
GCM downscaled GCM data portal, Research Program
on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food
Security, CGIAR and CCAFS
1950-2000 & 2050 Global
2.5 minutes (~ 4.5 km at equator),
0.041667 DDhttp://www.ccafs-climate.org/data/
Data downloaded from (http://www.ccafs-climate.org/data/) GCM downscaled GCM data portal, Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security, CGIAR and CCAFS
RCP8.5, 2.5 arc minutes resolution for globe
Modeling Center (or Group) Institute ID Model NameACCESS1.0ACCESS1.3BCC-CSM1.1
BCC-CSM1.1(m)College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University
GCESS BNU-ESM
Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis CCCMA CanESM2National Center for Atmospheric Research NCAR CCSM4
CESM1(BGC)
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization in collaboration with Queensland Climate Change Centre of Excellence
CSIRO-QCCCE CSIRO-Mk3.6.0
EC-EARTH consortium EC-EARTH EC-EARTHLASG, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences and CESS,Tsinghua University
LASG-CESS FGOALS-g2
The First Institute of Oceanography, SOA, China FIO FIO-ESMGFDL-ESM2M
GFDL-CM3GFDL-ESM2G
GISS-E2-HGISS-E2-R
MOHC HadGEM2-ES(additional realizations by INPE) HadGEM2-CC
Institute for Numerical Mathematics INM INM-CM4IPSL-CM5A-LR IPSL-CM5A-MR IPSL-CM5B-LRMIROC-ESM
MIROC-ESM-CHEM
Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute (The University of Tokyo), National Institute for Environmental Studies, and Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
MIROC MIROC5
MPI-ESM-MR MPI-ESM-LR
Meteorological Research Institute MRI MRI-CGCM3Norwegian Climate Centre NCC NorESM1-M
NOAA GFDLNOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
NSF-DOE-NCARCommunity Earth System Model Contributors
NASA GISSNASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology) MPI-M
Met Office Hadley Centre (additional HadGEM2-ES realizations contributed by Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais)
Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace IPSL
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute (The University of Tokyo), and National Institute for Environmental Studies
MIROC
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) and Bureau of Meteorology (BOM), Australia
CSIRO-BOM
Beijing Climate Center, China Meteorological Administration BCC
Data: Sample of urban extents and national boundaries
Global Rural Urban Mapping Project (GRUMP) both raster (30 arc seconds) and vector files for year 2000
July 2014 - Copyright © 2014 by United Nations. All rights reservedSuggested citation: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2014). World Urbanization Prospects: The 2014 Revision, CD-ROM Edition.
Department of Economic and Social Affairs
World Urbanization Prospects: The 2014 RevisionFile 3: Urban Population at Mid-Year by Major Area, Region and Country, 1950-2050 (thousands)
POP/DB/WUP/Rev.2014/1/F03
Population DivisionUnited Nations
Research DesignUN Population data
• National scale data for population and urban population every 5 years from 1950 – 2050
• Urban areas are defined by national governments and may not conform to GRUMP urban extents
• Projections are based on UN DESA methodologies, see: http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publications/manual/projection/index.shtml
Research designmethods
• Temperature1. All annual files include 12 months of mean, max
and min temperatures2. For each model, we created 3-dimensional arrays
and identified, for each cell, the highest three temperatures for three consecutive months and from this created a new raster
3. Among the 30 models for 2050 we created another 3-dimensional array and, for each cell, identified: a) the mean values and b) picked the highest mean
Research designmethods
• Population1. We started with GRUMP 2000 and GPW4 2010
spatial population data2. We used the GRUMP rural-urban masks to
identified urban and non-urban areas3. We allocated urban and rural population, based
upon UN figures, randomly by country,
Research designmethods
• Analysis1. We use a sample of urban areas (~3600) to
sample both urban population and temperature (61% of urban population in 2010 and 75% of urban population in 2050)
2. We find mean temperatures for the “current” (2010), 2050 and 2050 highest mean periods
3. We compare changes in populations exposed to these different temperatures
Preliminary results
Projected temperature change (RCP 8.5 highest 3 month means)
Population change over time
Asian population change by latitude
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3 month mean temperature conditions (degrees C)
Urban population under different summer temperature conditions, 2010 and 2050
2010 2050 2050 (highest mean)
Percent of sample Asian urban population experiencing 3 month temperatures. 2010 and 2050
Year < 28 28-32 32-34 34-36 36-38 38-40 >402010 62.76 27.48 8.85 0.91 0.00 0.00 0.002050 21.95 50.00 8.52 11.91 6.21 1.38 0.032050 (highest mean) 12.18 45.76 17.74 8.35 8.78 4.10 3.08
Preliminary results
Between 252.5 and 528.8 million urban
residents
Discussion
Discussion
• Urbanization includes much more than population expansion
Source: Romero-Lankao et al 2014
Source: Seto et al. 2012. PNAS
Projected future urban land use in Asia2000 to 2030
Discussion
• Across the world’s continents, Asia suffers from a disproportional distribution of “natural hazard” impacts
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Total population affected by ”natural disasters” by continent:5-year moving averages, 1950-2014
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Source: D. Guha-Sapir, R. Below, Ph. Hoyois - EM-DAT: The CRED/OFDA International Disaster Database – www.emdat.be – UniversitéCatholique de Louvain – Brussels – Belgium.
Discussion
• Risk from extreme heat currently has one of the lowest impacts among hazards in the region
Distribution of selective cumulative natural disaster impacts in Asia and share of World, 1950-2014
Occurances Affected Deaths DamagePercent Number Percent Number Percent Cost Percent
Natural Disaster Number Total (millions) Total (thousands) Total (US$ billions) TotalAsia
Drought 152 4.3 1,725 28.6 1,513 32.2 38 5.6Floods 1,805 51.3 3,406 56.4 2,283 48.6 410 61.0Storms 1,500 42.6 908 15.0 889 18.9 224 33.3Heat waves 61 1.7 0.1 0.0 12.1 0.3 0.4 0.1Total Asia 3,518 6,039 4,697 673
WorldDrought 632 24.1 2,221 77.6 2,211 68.4 136 28.0Floods 4,374 41.3 3,584 95.0 2,377 96.0 673 60.9Storms 3,607 41.6 994 91.4 970 91.6 1,022 22.0Heat waves 167 36.5 5 2.6 155 7.8 22 1.9Total World 8,780 40.1 6,804 88.8 5,714 82.2 1,853 36.3
Source: D. Guha-Sapir, R. Below, Ph. Hoyois - EM-DAT: The CRED/OFDA International Disaster Database – www.emdat.be – UniversitéCatholique de Louvain – Brussels – Belgium.
Discussion
• With expanding population and urban areas will come increasing energy use, infrastructure development and other activities that create and increase Urban Heat Island effects
• While those Asian affected by extreme heat are low in number compared to other risk, this hazard will grow in importance, not only because of the higher number of those exposed but also because of increased sensitivity (larger numbers of older people in cities)
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Source: D. Guha-Sapir, R. Below, Ph. Hoyois - EM-DAT: The CRED/OFDA International Disaster Database – www.emdat.be – UniversitéCatholique de Louvain – Brussels – Belgium.
Discussion• “Despite all of the heat-related risks that cities face
in the future, few have put heat-management plans in place” (Hoag, 2015, pp. 404)
• My guess is that solutions may come from new technologies, urban design and energy efficiencies AND from traditional sources including traditional housing and building technologies
Conclusions
Conclusions
• We have developed a simple baseline model for the creation of urbanization scenarios using a random distribution of urban and non-urban population across national space
• The output of this model is associated with temperature outputs from 30 models for RCP 8.5 pathways to 2050
• Results suggest increasing and large urban populations may experience very warm consecutive months in the mid-term (2050) future
Conclusions
• Selected caveats– These are preliminary findings of a baseline for
the development of scenarios. This baseline needs further validation and checking;
– The model method while “plausible” has not yet been compared to historical development patterns;
– We do not include UHI in our results;– We do not include urban physical expansion in the
model;
Conclusions
• Some thoughts on further work for Asia• Phase 1
– Calculate temperatures for RCP 8.5 for 2020, 2030, 2060 and 2080
– Project urbanization to 2100– Continue baseline analysis to 2100– Compare model outputs to historical results
Conclusions
• Phase II– Develop different models of urbanization for a
range of outputs• Allocation models for urban growth based upon, inter
alia, transportation corridors, physical barriers, and densities
• Varying urbanization and population levels
– Compare the results from these analyses against each other and the baseline “random” approach
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