Assessing the impacts of climate change in cities and their adaptive capacity: Towards transformative approaches to climate change adaptation and poverty reduction in urban areas in a set of developing countries.

Autor: Filho WL; School of Science and the Environment, Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom; Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Research and Transfer Centre Sustainability and Climate Change Management, Faculty of Life Sciences, Ulmenliet 20, D-21033 Hamburg, Germany. Electronic address: w.leal@mmu.ac.uk., Balogun AL; Geospatial Analysis & Modelling Research (GAMR) Group, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP), Malaysia. Electronic address: alateef.babatunde@utp.edu.my., Olayide OE; Centre for Sustainable Development, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. Electronic address: oe.olayide@ui.edu.ng., Azeiteiro UM; Department of Biology and CESAM, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal. Electronic address: ulisses@ua.pt., Ayal DY; Centre for Food Security Studies (CFSS), College of Development Studies, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. Electronic address: desalegn.yayeh@aau.edu.et., Muñoz PDC; GTR-PUCP, Department of Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, 1801 Avenida Universitaria San Miguel, 15088 Lima, Peru. Electronic address: dchavez@pucp.edu.pe., Nagy GJ; Instituto de Ecología y CienciasAmbientales (IECA), Facultad de Ciencias (FC), Universidad de la República (UdelaR), Iguá 4225, Montevideo, Uruguay. Electronic address: gnagy@fcien.edu.uy., Bynoe P; Faculty of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Leslie Cummings Building, University of Guyana, Guyana. Electronic address: paulette.bynoe@uog.edu.gy., Oguge O; Centre for Advanced Studies in Environmental Law & Policy (CASELAP), University of Nairobi, PO Box 30197-00100, Nairobi, Kenya. Electronic address: oguge@uonbi.ac.ke., Yannick Toamukum N; Disaster Management Training Centre, School of Environmental Science and Technology, Ardhi University, P.O Box 35176, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Electronic address: y.otamukum@mmu.ac.uk., Saroar M; Department of Urban & Regional Planning, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Khulna University of Engineering & Technology (KUET), Khulna 9203, Bangladesh. Electronic address: Saroar.mustafa@urp.kuet.ac.bd., Li C; Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science (Ministry of Education), East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China; Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Research and Transfer Centre Sustainability and Climate Change Management, Faculty of Life Sciences, Ulmenliet 20, D-21033 Hamburg, Germany; School of Geographic Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China; Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany. Electronic address: chunlanli@haw-hamburg.de.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: The Science of the total environment [Sci Total Environ] 2019 Nov 20; Vol. 692, pp. 1175-1190. Date of Electronic Publication: 2019 Jul 16.
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.07.227
Abstrakt: Many cities across the world are facing many problems climate change poses to their populations, communities and infrastructure. These vary from increased exposures to floods, to discomfort due to urban heat, depending on their geographical locations and settings. However, even though some cities have a greater ability to cope with climate change challenges, many struggle to do so, particularly in cities in developing countries. In addition, there is a shortage of international studies which examine the links between climate change adaptation and cities, and which at the same time draw some successful examples of good practice, which may assist future efforts. This paper is an attempt to address this information need. The aim of this paper is to analyse the extent to which cities in a sample of developing countries are attempting to pursue climate change adaptation and the problems which hinder this process. Its goal is to showcase examples of initiatives and good practice in transformative adaptation, which may be replicable elsewhere. To this purpose, the paper describes some trends related to climate change in a set of cities in developing countries across different continents, including one of the smallest capital cities (Georgetown, Guyana) and Shanghai, one the world's most populous cities. In particular, it analyses their degree of vulnerability, how they manage to cope with climate change impacts, and the policies being implemented to aid adaptation. It also suggests the use of transformative approaches which may be adopted, in order to assist them in their efforts towards investments in low-carbon and climate-resilient infrastructure, thereby maximizing investments in urban areas and trying to address their related poverty issues. This paper addresses a gap in the international literature on the problems many cities in developing countries face, in trying to adapt to a changing climate.
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