Elaboration of a Climate Recommendation Map for the City of Belo Horizonte
Urban climate, Urban planning, Urban climate map, Recommendation map, Belo Horizonte.
Climate change represents one of the greatest challenges that humanity is facing and the constant increasing of its consequences is a warning sign for everyone. Changes in urban climates represent one of the main considerations of this subject because they directly affect a large number of people. Brazilian climate guidelines seek to follow international targets and they are based on relatively recent policies. Because of this, improvements at local levels are essential for the continued work against change. The Brazilian agenda provides a basis for the creation of climate action plans and each city has autonomy to choose the best adaptation and mitigation alternatives. Urban climate maps (MCU) are instruments for checking the interaction between the climate of a given area and the installed built environment and works to analyze climate dynamics during urban planning. The MCU is generally composed by the Analytical Urban Climate Map (MCUA) that unites information such as local geographic information and climatic aspects, and by the Recommendation Urban Climate Map (MCUR) that observes planning process based on deficiencies identified in the local urban climate. This work intends to elaborate a recommendation map based on the information available in the Analytical Climate Map of Belo Horizonte. The main goal is to use data from the climate map to identify vulnerabilities due to climate change and prepare a constructive guideline for the city. The desired methodology for this work will relate the study of analytical climate maps and recommendation maps created for other regions of Brazil and the world; to study foreign and national norms related to the theme; also to analyze local legislation, such as the current Master Plan of Belo Horizonte and others. As a result of this study, it is expected to continue the studies made on the analytical climate map of Belo Horizonte and use urban legislation to promote adaptations in the city.