Connecting the Dots: The Politics of Governing Urban Climate Adaptation Innovations Through Transnational Municipal Networks

2017 ◽  
pp. 183-202
Author(s):  
Ryan G. Bellinson
Keyword(s):  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Urban Climate ◽  
Municipal Networks ◽  
Connecting The Dots

scholarly journals Transnational Support for Urban Climate Adaptation: Emerging Forms of Agency and Dependency

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 25-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric K. Chu
Keyword(s):  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Urban Climate ◽  
Institutional Culture ◽  
External Support ◽  
Political Agency ◽  
Global Marketplace ◽  
Spatial Strategies ◽  
Transnational Actors ◽  
Economic Constraints ◽  
Political Economic

Transnational actors are critical for financing programs and generating awareness around climate change adaptation in cities. However, it is unclear whether transnational support actually enables more authority over adaptation actions and whether outcomes address wide-ranging development needs. In this article, I compare experiences from three cities in India—Surat, Indore, and Bhubaneswar—and link local political agency over adaptation with their supporting transnational funders. I find that adaptation governance involves powers of agency over directing bureaucratic practices, public finance, spatial strategies, and institutional culture. A city’s ability to exert these powers then yields different patterns of adaptation. However, political agency is circumscribed by a combination of historical political economic constraints and emerging transnational resources that promote specific forms of political meaning and procedures. The presence of external support therefore paradoxically constrains the governance autonomy of cities. This opens up new opportunities for development dependency—that is, ones that mirror neoliberal critiques of foreign aid—within the global marketplace for climate finance.

scholarly journals The motley drivers of heat and cold exposure in 21st century US cities

2020 ◽  
Vol 117 (35) ◽  
pp. 21108-21117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley Mark Broadbent ◽  
Eric Scott Krayenhoff ◽  
Matei Georgescu
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Cold Exposure ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Urban Climate ◽  
Heat Exposure ◽  
Ghg Emissions ◽  
Adaptation Measures ◽  
Relative Significance ◽  
Metropolitan Regions

We use a suite of decadal-length regional climate simulations to quantify potential changes in population-weighted heat and cold exposure in 47 US metropolitan regions during the 21st century. Our results show that population-weighted exposure to locally defined extreme heat (i.e., “population heat exposure”) would increase by a factor of 12.7–29.5 under a high-intensity greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and urban development pathway. Additionally, end-of-century population cold exposure is projected to rise by a factor of 1.3–2.2, relative to start-of-century population cold exposure. We identify specific metropolitan regions in which population heat exposure would increase most markedly and characterize the relative significance of various drivers responsible for this increase. The largest absolute changes in population heat exposure during the 21st century are projected to occur in major US metropolitan regions like New York City (NY), Los Angeles (CA), Atlanta (GA), and Washington DC. The largest relative changes in population heat exposure (i.e., changes relative to start-of-century) are projected to occur in rapidly growing cities across the US Sunbelt, for example Orlando (FL), Austin (TX), Miami (FL), and Atlanta. The surge in population heat exposure across the Sunbelt is driven by concurrent GHG-induced warming and population growth which, in tandem, could strongly compound population heat exposure. Our simulations provide initial guidance to inform the prioritization of urban climate adaptation measures and policy.

scholarly journals Awareness of urban climate adaptation strategies –an international overview

Urban Climate ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 100705 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanda Lenzholzer ◽  
Gerrit-Jan Carsjens ◽  
Robert D. Brown ◽  
Silvia Tavares ◽  
Jennifer Vanos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Urban Climate ◽  
Adaptation Strategies

scholarly journals Reviewing Ecosystem Services in Urban Climate Adaptation Plans

2019 ◽  
pp. 21-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Davide Geneletti ◽  
Chiara Cortinovis ◽  
Linda Zardo ◽  
Blal Adem Esmail
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Urban Climate

scholarly journals Serious Gaming for Climate Adaptation—Assessing the Potential and Challenges of a Digital Serious Game for Urban Climate Adaptation

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 1789 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tina-Simone Neset ◽  
Lotta Andersson ◽  
Ola Uhrqvist ◽  
Carlo Navarra
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Game Design ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Urban Climate ◽  
Serious Game ◽  
School Students ◽  
Adaptation Measures ◽  
Serious Gaming ◽  
The Impact

Serious gaming has gained increasing prominence in climate change communication, and provides opportunity to engage new audiences and new platforms for knowledge co-creation and dialogues. This paper presents the design and evaluation of a serious game on climate adaptation, primarily targeted towards high school students, practitioners and politicians. The game aims to provide an experience of the impact of climate adaptation measures, and illustrates links with selected Agenda 2030 goals, which the player has to consider, while limiting impacts of hazardous climate events. The game design builds on the key goals in Education for Sustainable Development combining comprehensive views, action competence, learner engagement and pluralism. This study draws on game sessions and surveys with high school students in Sweden, and aims to assess to what extent different aspects of the game can support an increased understanding of the needs and benefits of adaptation actions. The results of this study indicate that the game can engage players to reflect upon challenges related to climate adaptation decision making, but also point towards the challenge of including a high degree of complexity which can make it difficult to grasp consequences of individual measures, as well as to link these to the natural variability of the occurrence of extreme climatic events.

scholarly journals Roadmap towards justice in urban climate adaptation research

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Shi ◽  
Eric Chu ◽  
Isabelle Anguelovski ◽  
Alexander Aylett ◽  
Jessica Debats ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Urban Climate
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