A Short Bio

English: Dr. Zhong-Ren Peng is Professor and former Chair of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Florida, and Changjiang Scholar at the School of Transportation Engineering of Tongji University in China. His research interests are in urban planning, transportation and land use modeling, Geographic Information Systems for Transportation (GIS-T), and advanced urban information systems. Dr. Peng is also the Chair of International Association for China Planning (IACP) and co-Chair of the Sensing Technologies for Transportation Subcommittee at the Transportation Research Board (TRB). He has published over 30 papers in referred journals and the first book “Internet GIS” which has become a definitive work in the field of Internet GIS and the primary textbook and reference book in universities worldwide.

Chinese: 彭仲仁教授现为美国佛罗里达大学城市与区域规划系终身教授、前任系主任，中国同济大学长江学者特聘教授。兼任国际中国规划学会理事会主席。美国科学院交通研究理事会地理信息科学及应用委员会委员。曾任美国麻省理工学院(MIT)客座教授,美国威斯康星大学密尔瓦基分校城市规划系教授、空间信息研究中心主任。彭仲仁教授在过去20多年来的主要研究领域包括城市规划，交通规划，交通与土地利用一体化模型和政策分析，气候变迁对城市规划的影响，规划技术。在世界规划及交通研究杂志上发表了30多篇论文，并于2003年出版了世界上第一部网络 GIS) 的专著。

Seminar Selected

2. Climate Change and Low-carbon Cities

Title of presentation

English: Adaptation Planning to Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events

Chinese: 建立适应性规划体系以有效应对气候变迁及灾害性天气

Abstract of presentation

 English：One big issue that faces planning is the adaptation planning to climate change and extreme weather events. Many coastal states and cities are very vulnerable to the sea level rise and increasing flooding as a result of intensified hurricanes. Yet we see little actions in planning to adapt to these changes, and a lot of new developments are going on in the costal areas that are vulnerable to sea level rise and flooding. Other extreme events like draught, intense precipitation, blizzard, become more frequent and more intensified. Yet, we seem to have little planning to respond to these extreme events. How should we, as planners, plan our cities to better adapt to these climate change and extreme weather events? There are a lot of issues, including institutional issues, science issues, financial issues, legal issues and insurance policy issues, that planning scholars, practitioners and policy-makers should address but have not addressed yet.

This presentation will address these issues by drawing from the results of several research projects in the past few years and using two specific case studies (adaptation planning to sea level rise and flooding) in Florida. These issues include the scientific base of climate change and extreme events, methodology to quantify the impacts of climate change like sea level rise and flooding on the built environment, policies and strategies of adaptation planning, methods to analyze system vulnerability and estimate economic costs and benefits of different adaptation strategies, as well as issues, tools and procedures of conducting detailed adaptation planning.

Key words: Climate Change, Impact Analysis, Adaptation Planning, vulnerability, resilience planning