Abstract The 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris (COP21)
highlighted the importance of cities to climate action, as well as the unjust burdens borne by …

Abstract The Paris Agreement and Katowice Climate Package articulate a clear mandate for
all parties to undertake and document adaptation progress. Yet persistent challenges have …

Transformation as an adaptive response to climate change opens a range of novel policy
options. Used to describe responses that produce non-linear changes in systems or their …

Human security will be progressively threatened as the climate changes (robust evidence,
high agreement). Human insecurity almost never has single causes, but instead emerges …

The paper deals with the development of a general as well as integrative and holistic
framework to systematize and assess vulnerability, risk and adaptation. The framework is a …

The impacts of climate change are already being felt. Learning how to live with these
impacts is a priority for human development. In this context, it is too easy to see adaptation …

River cities require a management approach based on resilience to floods rather than on
resistance. Resisting floods by means of levees, dams, and channelization neglects inherent …

Faced with accelerating environmental challenges, research on social-ecological systems is
increasingly focused on the need for transformative change towards sustainable …

Cities confronted with unsustainable development and climatic changes are increasingly
turning to green infrastructure as an approach for growth and climate risk management. In …

Climate change-related drought risks are intensifying in many urban areas, making stakes
particularly high in contexts of severe vulnerability. Yet, how social power, differential …