Climate Futures and the Digital Civic Universe

This article sets forth the proposition for a digital civic universe (DCU) as a both common data ontology and a hybrid spatial medium for integrating the three and four dimensions of state-sponsored climate adaptation plans, civic adaptation realities and design interventions in the built environment. The authors, taking the U.S. as example, state that City Adaptation Maps (CAM) and National Adaptation Maps (NAM) conceptualized as a DCU platform could offer new ways for designing an adaptive and sustainable future.