In recent years, flood risk in urban areas has been rapidly increasing due to unsustainable
urban development, changes of hydrological processes and frequent occurrence of extreme …

Transformative adaptation (TA) places emphasis on changing the underlying causes of
climate risk. Little is known about how TA can be achieved in practice in southern African …

Good governance and innovation have been identified as important contributors towards the
achievement of climate change goals but without an empirical cross-examination of their …

Disaster risks in African cities are compounding due to the triple convergence of climate
change impacts, unplanned urbanisation, and entrenched socio-spatial inequities. Disaster …

Transformative climate adaptation is argued to reduce underlying vulnerability whilst
adapting to impacts. However, transformative actions may face resistance in post-industrial …

Cities have been described as complex adaptive systems (CAS). A key aspect of both
natural and social CAS is that they are scaler and hierarchical. The research reported in this …

Özet İklim değişikliği, birbiriyle bağlantılı olan birçok sistemin etkileşimi yoluyla hem
doğrudan hem de dolaylı olarak kentleri ve tüm canlıları olumsuz yönde etkileyen, karmaşık …

The contextual nature of adaptation demands insights into the effects of actors' actions,
decisions, and negotiations at different levels in the adaptation process to facilitate …

Globalization and industrialization have exposed the world to the exacerbating issue of
sustainability. With the occurrences of climate related extreme events increasing the world …

Global climate change has become an exciting issue to many people, particularly following
the organization of the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992. The world is …