Climate Adaptation Governance in Cities and Regions

Theoretical Fundamentals and Practical Evidence
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-118-45171-7
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 448 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1021 g

Global climate change creates new challenges in particular for cities and regions. As centres of human activity they are especially vulnerable to climate change impacts. Adapting to a changing climate requires dealing with multiple uncertainties and complexity in order to allow proactive action. Therefore, cities and regions around the globe face the challenge of exploring flexible and innovative forms of governance which have to address specific local or regional vulnerabilities and build capacity to accommodate future change.

This raises questions about the roles of stakeholders, the involvement of citizens, the composition and use of formal and informal instruments as well as the implementation of different forms of organization and regulation at the local and regional level.

This book provides case studies from cities and regions all around the world. It analyses climate change adaptation from a perspective of organizing, administering and implementing local and regional adaptation strategies and measures. It looks into actors, actor-constellations, institutions and networks of climate adaptation. And, it provides the reader with knowledge about good practices and experiences to be transferred for solving adaptation challenges in cities and regions around the globe.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Knieling, Jörg

Knieling, Jorg

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltmanagement, Umweltökonomie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Soziale & wirtschaftliche Auswirkungen von Umweltfaktoren
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Meteorologie, Klimatologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of contributors, ix

1 Climate adaptation governance in cities and regions: framework conditions, theoretical concepts and research questions 1
Jörg Knieling and Katharina Klindworth

Part 1: Theoretical basis

2 Applying social resilience concepts and indicators to support climate adaptation in tropical North Queensland, Australia 23
Allan Patrick Dale, Karen Vella, Ruth Potts, Bronwyn Voyce, Bob Stevenson, Alison Cottrell, David King, Hurriyet Babacan, Helen Boon, Margaret Gooch and Petina Pert

3 Spatial planning to promote urban resilience in coping with climate change and flooding: exploring two cases in Kaohsiung, Taiwan 45
Peiwen Lu

4 Adaptation to climate change and participatory action research (PAR): lessons from municipalities in Quebec, Canada 69
Steve Plante, Liette Vasseur and Charlotte DaCunha

5 Generating narratives on future risk to inform regional climate change adaptation planning 89
Douglas K. Bardsley, Nathanael D. Wiseman and Graeme J. Hugo

6 Advancing climate change adaptation and climate risk understanding through intervention research: case studies from Brazil and Australia 113
Silvia Serrao-Neumann, Gabriela Marques Di Giulio, Lucia Costa Ferreira and Darryl Low Choy

7 Climate adaptation and the significance of different modes of local political leadership: views of Swedish local political leaders 131
Mattias Hjerpe and Sofie Storbjörk

Part 2: Hierarchical forms of coordination

8 Regulating climate change adaptation, the case of surface water 155
Trude Rauken

9 Climate adaptation governance – theory, concepts, and praxis in cities and regions. The role of climate and water governance in supporting climate change adaptation processes 171
Walter Leal Filho, Margot A. Hurlbert and Harry Diaz

10 Climate problem and territorial governance: an overview of adaptation initiatives at the French regional level 191
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Über Autor(innen)

Jörg Knieling is head of the Institute for Urban Planning and Regional Development of HafenCity University Hamburg, Germany, and Visiting Professor at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. His research has focused on strategies, instruments and the governance of sustainable urban and regional development as well as climate change adaptation and mitigation on the levels of cities and regions. He has been involved in various national and international research projects and scientific boards dealing with questions of urban and regional climate adaptation.