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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF URBAN AND REGIONAL RESEARCH
Volume 37, Issue 6, Pages 1865-1878Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.12031
Keywords
Urban Climate Response; global South; ecological security; vulnerability; adaptive capacity; Delhi; Bogota; Santiago de Chile
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- Division Of Behavioral and Cognitive Sci
- Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie [0937777] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Cities around the world have recently started to become proactive' initiators of climate strategies containing both mitigation and adaptation elements. The experience of these first movers has been studied and documented both empirically and, to a lesser extent, theoretically, primarily for cities in the global North. This symposium addresses related knowledge gaps by exploring case studies of urban regions in the global South confronting their projected climate change challenges, showcasing the experiences of Delhi, Santiago de Chile and Bogota. Its specific aim is to explore the urban social response to nature change, the adaptation challenges faced by cities across the world and current practices of urban adaptation. Further, the symposium seeks to understand to what extent and in what respect current conceptual frameworks which highlight urban ecological security and vulnerability provide a useful context/framing to assist cities in confronting their challenges and to explain their actions. This introductory article examines current knowledge of the theory and practice of urban climate response. It introduces the concepts of ecological security and vulnerability and discusses the adaptive capacity of cities and how they are starting to respond to the emerging challenges of climate change. It concludes with a synthesis of the case articles and highlights some of the findings.
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