A survey of urban climate change experiments in 100 cities

Broto, Vanesa Castán; Bulkeley, Harriet

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2012.07.005

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“…reduction of greenhouse gases emissions) and much less on adaptation (i.e. long term strategies to reduce exposure, susceptibility and improve coping capacity of communities to hazards) as these strategies imply taking a precautionary and anticipatory approach (Castán Broto and Bulkeley 2013). However, the implementation of adaptation plans is urgent.…”

Section: Challenges Of Climate Change In Citiesmentioning

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Integrating the Grey, Green, and Blue in Cities: Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Change Adaptation and Risk Reduction

Depietri

McPhearson

2017

Theory and Practice of Urban Sustainability Transitions

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Cities are high emitters of greenhouse gases and are drivers of environmental modification, often leading to degradation and fragmentation of ecosystems at local and regional scales. Linked to these trends is a growing threat experienced by urban areas: the risk from hydro-meteorological and climatological hazards, further accentuated by climate change. Ecosystems and their services, though often overlooked or degraded, can provide multiple hazard regulating functions such as coastal and surface flood regulation, temperature regulation and erosion control. Engineering or grey approaches often do not tackle the root causes of risk and can increase the vulnerability of populations over the long-term. However, evidence of alternative approaches such as the role of healthy, functioning ecosystems in disaster risk reduction are still scarce, contentious, and with limited applicability in the urban context. This chapter explores the role of grey, green, and blue infrastructure and in particular hybrid approaches for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation to shed light on available sustainable adaptation opportunities in cities and urban areas. We highlight the dependence of cities on ecosystems as a key component of climate resilience building through case studies and literature review. At the same time, we highlight the limitation and drawbacks in the adoption of merely grey or merely green infrastructures. We suggest that an intermediate 'hybrid' approach, which combines both blue, green and grey approaches, may be the most effective strategy for reducing risk to hazards in the urban context.

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Section: Challenges Of Climate Change In Citiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrating the Grey, Green, and Blue in Cities: Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Change Adaptation and Risk Reduction

Depietri

McPhearson

2017

Theory and Practice of Urban Sustainability Transitions

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“…The case-study based approach has been the general approach in transition studies, but Sengers et al (2016) suggest that new approaches dealing with multiple experiments form a promising research direction in this field. Building on work of Wieczorek, Raven, & Berkhout, (2015), Castán Broto & Bulkeley (2013), and Van den Heiligenberg et al, (2017), this paper contributes to transition literature by showing how a larger number of experiments can be studied and how this reveals some insights into the magnitude and direction of change.…”

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Understanding smart mobility experiments in the Dutch automobility system: Who is involved and what do they promise?

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Wieczorek

Verbong

2018

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“…As stated by Howarth and Painter ( [33], p. 10), "climate change is a local and context-specific issue" and therefore much work in practice on responses to nexus shocks occurs at the local level. Furthermore, with the withdrawal of the state and its funding from the local level, combined with the projected increases in magnitude and frequency of nexus shocks due to climate change in the UK, the need for effective local level responses, collaboration and communication between tiers of society and government as well as research on this area is urgently required [34].…”

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Decision-Making and Building Resilience to Nexus Shocks Locally: Exploring Flooding and Heatwaves in the UK

Howarth

Brooks

2017

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There has been a policy shift towards localism in the UK driving responses and decision-making processes to respond to the impacts of climate change. This shift capitalizes on local expertise and knowledge, empowering communities to take ownership of response strategies, with an increased focus on building resilience to nexus shocks. This comes at a time when the ability of local authorities to lead responses to nexus shocks is decreasing due to lack of capacity, funding and a statutory requirement to better respond to the impacts of climate change. We examine local resilience to nexus shocks and climate impacts as a complex process of collaboration, communication, adaptation, learning from past events and preparing for future shocks. Drawing on examples of resilience to extreme weather events in the UK, this review paper assesses: (1) local responses to nexus shocks in the UK; (2) how and what evidence is used to inform decision-making in response to nexus shocks; and (3) how stakeholders increase local resilience to nexus shocks when faced with gaps in knowledge. We outline possible ways to extrapolate these insights beyond the UK context.

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A survey of urban climate change experiments in 100 cities

Cited by 788 publications

References 34 publications

Integrating the Grey, Green, and Blue in Cities: Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Change Adaptation and Risk Reduction

Integrating the Grey, Green, and Blue in Cities: Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Change Adaptation and Risk Reduction

Understanding smart mobility experiments in the Dutch automobility system: Who is involved and what do they promise?

Decision-Making and Building Resilience to Nexus Shocks Locally: Exploring Flooding and Heatwaves in the UK

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