Climate-resilient development planning for cities: progress from Cape Town

Simpson, Nicholas P.; Simpson, Kayleen Jeanne; Ferreira, Albert T.; Constable, Andrew J.; Glavovic, Bruce; Eriksen, Siri; Ley, Debora; Solecki, William; Rodríguez, Roberto Sánchez; Stringer, Lindsay C.

doi:10.1038/s42949-023-00089-x

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“…For example, climate security threats identified by the U.S. Department of Defense are only selectively integrated into planning and decision-making [7]. Furthermore, top-down command structures within conventional security actors/institutions do not align well with sustainable climate interventions that seek to build participation, accountability, and consensus on pathways towards climate-resilient development [8]. Without fundamental transformation, institutionalization through military-informed activities on climate security will likely reinforce dominant statecentric security practices that focus on reactive military measures and a culture of secrecy.…”

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The challenges of the increasing institutionalization of climate security

Hardt,

Jayaram,

Harrington

et al. 2024

PLOS Clim

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After years of discussions about whether anthropogenic climate change could have security implications, the issue is now moving to the centre of international security agendas. State and non-state security actors increasingly recognize multiple links between climate change and security, such as threats to states, militaries, human well-being, and the stability of earth systems. Thus, the term 'climate security' is used across research and policy domains. The term 'climate security' is used and understood differently across diverse research and policy domains. Yet growing recognition of the issue has generated an unprecedented wave of institutionalization of climate security led by powerful states and international organizations

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The challenges of the increasing institutionalization of climate security

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Jayaram,

Harrington

et al. 2024

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Moving beyond the plan: Exploring the opportunities to accelerate the implementation of municipal climate change adaptation policies and plans

Rogers,

Adams,

Byrne

2024

Env Pol Gov

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Across the globe, ecosystems, biodiversity and human societies are experiencing the escalating and often catastrophic impacts of anthropogenic climate change. Well‐considered, properly resourced and trans‐scalar adaptation responses are essential. Local governments (e.g., municipal councils) can provide crucial support to communities enabling planning, response and recovery from climate change impacts. While innumerable municipal climate change adaptation policies, strategies and plans have been developed, the implementation of adaptation actions typically lags, creating a planning‐to‐implementation gap. Contributing factors and the opportunities to overcome key constraints remain underexplored. This article reports the results of research addressing that knowledge gap analysing the circumstances that give rise to a municipal climate adaptation implementation gap, and the opportunities to progress from adaptation planning to implementation. Interviews with 25 local government leaders and staff reveal five key opportunities to advance the implementation of adaptation polices and plans—(i) mobilising novel finance solutions; (ii) developing an adaptation skills pipeline; (iii) building collaborative and trans‐disciplinary ways of working across municipal councils; (iv) enhancing the salience and prominence of adaptation as a core municipal concern and (v) legislating for municipal climate change adaptation mainstreaming. Establishing good climate governance and improving capacity for adaptation will be critical if local governments are to close the municipal climate change adaptation planning‐to‐implementation gap.

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Long-term recurrent exposure to excessive heat in the east Mediterranean and climate resilience development – a case study in Israel

Shafran-Nathan,

Broday

2024

Reg Environ Change

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This work studies long-term trends of observed meteorological parameters and of exposure to excessive heat over 74 years in Israel (1950–2023). We report an increasing trend of recurring exposure of the Israeli population to excessive heat during most of the summer noon hours, with the heat index often above the physiologically no-risk threshold. Specifically, since the beginning of the millennium, a significant increase in summertime decadal means of ambient noontime temperature (Ta), absolute humidity (AH), and heat index (HI) is evident relative to the 1950’s (Ta: 0.06 °C/year, AH: 0.06 g/m3year, HI: 0.09 °C/year). The experienced increase summertime thermal discomfort by the Israeli population results from the significant and synergistic increase in co-exposure to ambient temperature and humidity. Indeed, long-term satellite data (Landsat 1984–2021) of the east Mediterranean Sea Surface Temperature (SST) reveal a significant change (SST: 0.05 °C/year), which elucidates the corresponding increase in the absolute humidity. Leishmaniasis is a climate-related vector-borne infectious disease. However, the 1956–2017 leishmaniasis incidence rates in Israel do not correlate with the significant increase in the ambient temperature and heat index, representing development of climate resilience in terms of administrated prevention measures (namely, systematic adaptation) to this climate-related disease.

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Climate-resilient development planning for cities: progress from Cape Town

Cited by 10 publications

References 11 publications

The challenges of the increasing institutionalization of climate security

The challenges of the increasing institutionalization of climate security

Moving beyond the plan: Exploring the opportunities to accelerate the implementation of municipal climate change adaptation policies and plans

Long-term recurrent exposure to excessive heat in the east Mediterranean and climate resilience development – a case study in Israel

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