Initiating and sustaining action: Experiences building resilience to climate change in Asian cities

Kernaghan, Sam; Silva, Jo da

doi:10.1016/j.uclim.2013.10.008

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“…The Guwahati study demonstrated that adaptation actions can be developed if the city government has the will and leadership needed to take up the tasks and actions towards climate resilience, and where knowledge and capacity gaps are filled by external actors like the national ACCCRN partners (see also Kernaghan & da Silva, 2013). However, implementation of strategies not falling under the 'regular' mandate of the city or the state government remains questionable.…”

Section: Ensure Top-down Priorities Are Aligned With Local-level Needsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Moving towards inclusive urban adaptation: approaches to integrating community-based adaptation to climate change at city and national scale

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Almansi²,

DiGregorio

et al. 2014

Climate and Development

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Adaptation to climate change in urban areas presents a complex challenge. Consequently, approaches to urban adaptation should be both multilevel and multidimensional. Community-based adaptation (CBA) presents an opportunity for locallevel participation in framing adaptation planning and activities, with wider transformative potential for urban governance. This paper presents five case studies from cities in the Global South which offer insights into the different scales at which CBA can be mainstreamed in urban contexts, and the various ways in which this is happening. These examples demonstrate five emerging opportunities for mainstreaming urban CBA, which include using CBA as part of a wider package of approaches; seizing processes of institutional reform as an opportunity to integrate community perspectives; institutionalizing new actors and approaches as a mechanism for scaling up multi-stakeholder approaches; ensuring topdown planning approaches are connected to local dynamics; and using participatory research to facilitate local communities in shaping planning processes. The cases also demonstrate that while obstacles to mainstreaming in urban contexts remain, some lessons in addressing these challenges have emerged, and CBA should, therefore, be a part of the toolbox of local and national urban adaptation policy frameworks.

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Section: Ensure Top-down Priorities Are Aligned With Local-level Needsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Moving towards inclusive urban adaptation: approaches to integrating community-based adaptation to climate change at city and national scale

Archer

Almansi²,

DiGregorio

et al. 2014

Climate and Development

135

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“…Policies and strategies related to urban resilience and sustainability must address multiple sectors and dimensions, including land use planning, energy management, ecosystem services, housing and transport, among others Lee 41 (Kernaghan & da Silva, 2014). Integrated policies and strategies for upgrading public infrastructure can increase resilience across sectors and balance the preservation of local identity with the mitigation and management of risks faced by the city.…”

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“…In the upcoming decades, the major driver of damage and losses that are caused by associated disasters will be the growth of populations and assets in harm's way, especially in urban areas (IPCC, 2012;Revi et al, 2014). Therefore, interest in urban resilience is growing (Chelleri, 2012;Kernaghan & da Silva, 2014;Lee, 2015;The Royal Society, 2014). Cities, municipalities and counties may also use climate change-related strategies to achieve such objects as sustainable and efficient energy use and renewable energy production, and provide a context within which both relevant behavioral and relevant technical innovations may arise and spread (Burch, Herbert, & Robinson, 2015;Lee, 2015).…”

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“…Cities, municipalities and counties may also use climate change-related strategies to achieve such objects as sustainable and efficient energy use and renewable energy production, and provide a context within which both relevant behavioral and relevant technical innovations may arise and spread (Burch, Herbert, & Robinson, 2015;Lee, 2015). Cities are centers of innovation, which is a key component of resilience (Kernaghan & da Silva, 2014;Rose, 2014).…”

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“…Numerous contexts of climate change that have been studied in the literature suggest that a holistic framework is required to address both urban sustainability and urban resilience (Kernaghan & da Silva, 2014;Rose, 2014). The goal of these studies is to elucidate policies and strategies in which flexible and "low-regret" measures can be cost-effective even when risks, of which many must be faced, are uncertain (World Bank, 2012).…”

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Initiating and sustaining action: Experiences building resilience to climate change in Asian cities

Cited by 58 publications

References 7 publications

Moving towards inclusive urban adaptation: approaches to integrating community-based adaptation to climate change at city and national scale

Moving towards inclusive urban adaptation: approaches to integrating community-based adaptation to climate change at city and national scale

Building Resilient Cities through Community Empowerment: Principles and Strategies for Taiwan

The Governance of Climate Change Adaptation Through Urban Policy Experiments

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