Addressing the issues of climate change in sustainable waterfront transformation

The impact of climate change in urban areas can bring to extreme variability of weather events such as heatwaves, colder periods, rising sea levels, rivers' flooding conditions, greenhouse effects and gas emmissions. It is, therefore, important to look climate crisis with more regardless especially in sensitive contexts. Specifically, effective enforcement of sustainable planning and design in waterfront transformation is important to face regeneration or new development. Planning policies and strategies can help to more awareness on regeneration frameworks, masterplans and water management to prioritise microclimate conditions. This contribusion discusses on how to understand complexities and dynamics of a sensitive urban waterfront in order to provide proper solutions for context management for both safety and environmental benefit. A waterfront urban space can help to generate places of quality and good condition for protection as well. The chapter also stresses opinion on how to stimulate waterfront change in specific environments and describes design strategies to be taken along the Oeiras Riverfront in Portugal.