Urban Climate Resilience and Its Link to Global Sustainability Agendas
Book chapter, 2022
This chapter examines urban climate resilience. It provides a conceptual introduction, followed by an explanation of how urban areas have been recognized in recent global agendas related to sustainability, climate change, and disaster risk reduction. The chapter provides a picture of the complexity and diversity of urban climate resilience experiences, through seven case study cities on four continents. The sample of cities includes small, medium, and larger cities, both coastal and landlocked, in diverse political, socioeconomic, and geographical contexts. Drawing on comparative research using co-production between academic researchers and local authority counterparts, the detailed case studies illustrate the climate resilience challenges faced by each city, the work in terms of strategies and initiatives they have carried out and are planning to increase their resilience, as well as the geographical and policy contexts in which those strategies are embedded.
Urban resilience
Climate change
Climate adaptation
Cities
Global environmental change
Urban sustainability
Climate resilience
Agenda 2030
Vulnerability
Author
Sandra Valencia
The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research (Mistra)
Chalmers, Gothenburg Centre for Sustainable Development
David Simon
University College London (UCL)
The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research (Mistra)
Sylvia Croese
University of Cape Town
University of Witwatersrand
Amy Davison
City of Cape Town
Kristina Diprose
The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research (Mistra)
University of Sheffield
Aishwarya Krishnaswami Srinivas
Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation
Julia Nesprias
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Joakim Nordqvist
Institute for Sustainable Urban Development
Michael Oloko
Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science & Technology
Tarun Sharma
Nagrika
Nick Taylor Buck
University of Sheffield
The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research (Mistra)
Ileana Versace
Universidad de Buenos Aires
The Palgrave Handbook of Climate Resilient Societies: Volumes 1-2
Vol. 2 1807-1834
9783030424626 (ISBN)
Subject Categories (SSIF 2011)
Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Human Geography
Environmental Sciences
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-42462-6_131