Urban Climate Resilience and Its Link to Global Sustainability Agendas
Kapitel i bok, 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.

Agenda 2030

Urban sustainability

Urban resilience

Vulnerability

Climate change

Climate adaptation

Cities

Climate resilience

Global environmental change

Författare

Sandra Valencia

Mistra Urban Futures

Chalmers, Göteborgs centrum för hållbar utveckling

David Simon

University College London (UCL)

Mistra Urban Futures

Sylvia Croese

University of Cape Town

University of Witwatersrand

Amy Davison

City of Cape Town

Kristina Diprose

University of Sheffield

Mistra Urban Futures

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

Mistra Urban Futures

Ileana Versace

Universidad de Buenos Aires

The Palgrave Handbook of Climate Resilient Societies: Volumes 1-2

1807-1834
9783030424626 (ISBN)

Ämneskategorier

Tvärvetenskapliga studier

Kulturgeografi

Miljövetenskap

DOI

10.1007/978-3-030-42462-6_131

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2023-10-26