The notion of 'transformations towards sustainability'takes an increasingly central position in
global sustainability research and policy discourse in recent years. Governance and politics …

Cities and urban areas are increasingly recognized as strategic arenas for climate change
action. Processes of urban governance addressing climate change reconfigure the politics …

The purpose of this paper is to assess the role of greenspace patterns on cooling effects
from urban greenspaces. Greenspace has been argued to have significant potential to …

In a world that is increasingly urbanised, cities are recognised as critical sites for tackling
problems of climate change, both by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and addressing …

This study is motivated by the observation that adaptation to climate change is often
presented as a technical problem that requires only engineering and technological …

This work explores the narratives associated with the benefits of sustainable urban
agriculture areas in terms of adaptation to climate change in the Cape Town Metropolitan …

IMPLICATIONS OF LAND TENURE RIGHTS ON FARMERS’ ADAPTIVE CAPACITY TO CLIMATE
VARIABILITY AND CHANGE IN SEMI-ARID NORTH- WESTERN Page 1 IMPLICATIONS OF …

The contemporary urbanisation of Amazonas is a geopolitical creation, and a recent
phenomenon. For long time native communities have been living in sparse, often isolated …

This chapter highlights a number of factors and inquiries shaping the development of
adaptation research in North America. While some of these steering factors are unique to the …

Increasing longevity and urbanisation are the two major trends facing development in the
21st century. It is widely accepted that urbanisation provides enormous potential for younger …