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- Valencia, Sandra, 1981, et al.
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Adapting the Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda to the city level : Initial reflections from a comparative research project
- 2019
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Ingår i: International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1946-3138 .- 1946-3146. ; 11:1, s. 4-23
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda recognise the role of cities in achieving sustainable development. However, these agendas were agreed and signed by national governments and thus implementing them at the local level requires a process of adaptation or localisation. In this paper, we analyse five aspects that practitioners and researchers need to consider when localising them: (1) delimitation of the urban boundary; (2) integrated governance; (3) actors; (4) synergies and trade-offs and (5) indicators. These considerations are interrelated, and while not exhaustive, provide an important initial step for reflection on the challenges and opportunities of working with these global agendas at the local level. The paper draws on the inception phase of an international comparative transdisciplinary research project in seven cities on four continents: Buenos Aires (Argentina), Cape Town (South Africa), Gothenburg (Sweden), Kisumu (Kenya), Malmo (Sweden), Sheffield (UK) and Shimla (India).
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- Valencia, Sandra, 1981, et al.
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Urban Climate Resilience and Its Link to Global Sustainability Agendas
- 2022
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Ingår i: The Palgrave Handbook of Climate Resilient Societies: Volumes 1-2. - Cham : Springer International Publishing. ; 2, s. 1807-1834
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This chapter examines urban climate resilience. It provides a conceptual introduction, followed by an explanation of how urban areas have been recognized in recent global agendas related to sustainability, climate change, and disaster risk reduction. The chapter provides a picture of the complexity and diversity of urban climate resilience experiences, through seven case study cities on four continents. The sample of cities includes small, medium, and larger cities, both coastal and landlocked, in diverse political, socioeconomic, and geographical contexts. Drawing on comparative research using co-production between academic researchers and local authority counterparts, the detailed case studies illustrate the climate resilience challenges faced by each city, the work in terms of strategies and initiatives they have carried out and are planning to increase their resilience, as well as the geographical and policy contexts in which those strategies are embedded.
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