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Integration of urban science and urban climate adaptation research: opportunities to advance climate action. [PDF]

NPJ Urban Sustain, 2023
There is a growing recognition that responding to climate change necessitates urban adaptation. We sketch a transdisciplinary research effort, arguing that actionable research on urban adaptation needs to recognize the nature of cities as social networks
Lobo J, Aggarwal RM, Alberti M, Allen-Dumas M, Bettencourt LMA, Boone C, Brelsford C, Broto VC, Eakin H, Bagchi-Sen S, Meerow S, D'Cruz C, Revi A, Roberts DC, Smith ME, York A, Lin T, Bai X, Solecki W, Pataki D, Tapia LB, Rockman M, Wolfram M, Schlosser P, Gauthier N.   +24 more
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The "teapot in a city": A paradigm shift in urban climate modeling. [PDF]

Sci Adv, 2022
Urban areas are a high-stake target of climate change mitigation and adaptation measures. To understand, predict, and improve the energy performance of cities, the scientific community develops numerical models that describe how they interact with the ...
Villefranque N, Hourdin F, d'Alençon L, Blanco S, Boucher O, Caliot C, Coustet C, Dauchet J, El Hafi M, Eymet V, Farges O, Forest V, Fournier R, Gautrais J, Masson V, Piaud B, Schoetter R.   +16 more
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Unraveling the urban climate crisis: Exploring the nexus of urbanization, climate change, and their impacts on the environment and human well-being - A global perspective. [PDF]

AIMS Public Health
The accelerating pace of urbanization, coupled with the intensifying impacts of climate change, poses unprecedented challenges to both the environment and human well-being.
Das S, Choudhury MR, Chatterjee B, Das P, Bagri S, Paul D, Bera M, Dutta S.   +7 more
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The condition of urban climate experimentation

Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, 2023
As the trend of urban climate experimentation continues, many accounts now seek to identify how it can be harnessed toward responses of sufficient scale and magnitude for the crises at hand. The imperative is to move beyond experimentation.
H. Bulkeley
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Assessing the Potential of AI–ML in Urban Climate Change Adaptation and Sustainable Development

Sustainability, 2023
This study addresses a notable gap in the climate change literature by examining the potential of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI–ML) in urban climate change adaptation and sustainable development across major global continents.
Aman Srivastava, R. Maity
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Quality of urban climate adaptation plans over time

npj Urban Sustainability, 2023
Defining and measuring progress in adaptation are important questions for climate adaptation science, policy, and practice. Here, we assess the progress of urban adaptation planning in 327 European cities between 2005 and 2020 using three ‘ADAptation ...
D. Reckien, A. Buzási, M. Olazabal, Niki-Artemis Spyridaki, P. Eckersley, S. Simoes, M. Salvia, F. Pietrapertosa, P. Fokaides, Sascha M. Goonesekera, L. Tardieu, M. Balzan, Cheryl L. de Boer, Sonia De Gregorio Hurtado, E. Feliu, A. Flamos, A. Foley, D. Geneletti, S. Grafakos, O. Heidrich, B. Ioannou, A. Krook-Riekkola, Marko Matosović, H. Orru, Kati Orru, Ivan Paspaldzhiev, Klavdija Rižnar, M. Smigaj, M. Szalmáné Csete, V. Viguié, Anja Wejs   +30 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Philanthropic foundations as urban climate policy entrepreneurs

Journal of Urban Affairs, 2023
Cities are increasingly presented as key sites of effective climate action. However urban climate governance is suffering from an implementation gap, and a democratic deficit associated with its technical focus and difficulties to address social climate ...
Hélène Madénian, Sophie L. Van Neste
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Thinking topologically about urban climate finance: geographical inequalities and Mexico’s urban landscapes of infrastructure investment

Urban Geography, 2023
Clearly, the resources available for tackling the deleterious effects of climate change differ starkly within and between cities. Increasing evidence indicates that uneven climate investments further aggravate these inequalities in cities’ capacities to ...
Hanna Hilbrandt, Fritz-Julius Grafe
semanticscholar   +1 more source

What motivates urban climate leaders? A study of urban climate governance in eight Swedish municipalities

International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, 2023
This paper explores the motivations behind urban climate governance in eight Swedish municipalities. The study demonstrates that political consensus among, and willingness of, urban political leaders is of importance for motivating climate actions ...
Daniel Lindvall
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Designing and leading collaborative urban climate governance: Comparative experiences of co‐creation from Copenhagen and Oslo

Environmental Policy and Governance, 2022
This article has a twofold aim. First, inspired by collaborative governance theory, the article develops an analytical framework built around three ideal co-creation strategies utilized by city governments for building capacity and addressing urban ...
H. Hofstad, E. Sørensen, J. Torfing, Trond Vedeld   +3 more
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