The Center for Urban and Regional Planning for Postgraduate Studies at the University of Baghdad held a scientific symposium on “The Environmental Planning and Climate Change” presented by Dr. Nahla Mohammed Jassim, director of the Environment Department at the Ministry of Transport, and Assist. Prof. Dr. Areej Khairi.
The symposium addressed the unstudied planning and its impact on changing the values of the climatic elements that caused several problems in Iraqi cities which urgently demands reviewing the basic plans of any city in accordance with land uses and trends of future expansion while taking into account the areas exposed to climatic changes such as floods and earthquakes.
The lecturers shed light on the transport planning mechanisms in modern cities in line with exposure to natural disasters such as floods that endanger bridges, sanitation problems caused by the increase in rain amount which all lead to the lack of access to the sewage system that was designed formerly in these cities and the rise in temperatures, deforestation, ongoing fire phenomena which led to the disappearance of wildlife, random logging and air pollution due to the establishment of factories inside cities.
The participants recommended developing the mechanisms for reducing solid waste and its treatment stages, as well as taking advantage of landfill areas for obtaining alternative sources of clean energy.
