Climate Urbanism
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Climate change demands urgent action. This call is heard most loudly in rapidly growing urban areas. Cities are key to implementing the 2015 Paris Agreement - a coordinated policy effort to combat climate change and adapt to its effects.
By focusing on cities as the most appropriate sites of action and prioritising the protection of infrastructures, climate urbanism is transforming the fabric of everyday life.
This theme examines the history, processes and implications of the rise of climate urbanism as a model for urban development.
Research Questions
- What is climate urbanism and how does it differ from other models of urbanisation?
- What perspectives inform climate urbanism and with what consequences for how we plan and govern our cities?
- How, where, and why is climate urbanism embraced, promoted, or contested?
- How is climate urbanism transforming the physical and social fabric of urban life?
People
Theme Lead: Vanesa CastΓ΅n Broto
UI members: | | Enora Robin | | | Aidan While | Matthew Wood | Vicky Simpson
Associates: | | | Anne Maassen
Interrogations
- The New African Urban University
- Low Carbon Action in Ordinary Cities
- Lost Lakes of Bengalaru
- Community Energy and Sustainable Energy Transitions
- Off-Grid Cities
- Community Energy in Ghana
- Urban Climate Finance
Partners
Publications
- Journal articles
- Olazabal M, Chu E, CastΓ΅n Broto V & Patterson J (2021) . One Earth, 4(6), 828-838.
- Huang, P., Westman, L. K., & CastΓ΅n Broto, V. (2021). . Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.
- Ruiz-Campillo X, CastΓ΅n Broto V & Westman L (2021) . Politics and Governance, 9(2), 17-28.
- CastΓ΅n Broto, V., Robin, E., & While, A. (2020). Climate urbanism: towards a critical research agenda. Palgrave MacMillan.
- Robin, E., & Broto, V. C. (2020). . International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. DOI: CastΓ΅n Broto, V., & Robin, E. (2020). . Urban Geography, 1-6.
- CastΓ΅n Broto, V., & Robin, E. (2020). . Urban Geography, 1-6.
- Books
- CastΓ΅n Broto, V., Robin, E., & While, A. (2020). Climate urbanism: towards a critical research agenda. Palgrave MacMillan.
- Castan Broto V & Westman L (2019) Urban Sustainability and Justice Just Sustainabilities and Environmental Planning. Zed Books Ltd.
- CastΓ΅n Broto V (2019) . Cambridge University Press.
- Book chapters
- Rigon A & CastΓ΅n Broto V (2021) , Inclusive Urban Development in the Global South (pp. 1-14).
- Robin E & CastΓ΅n Broto V (2021) , Inclusive Urban Development in the Global South (pp. 182-197).