Executive summary Health is central to the development of any country. Nigeria's gross
domestic product is the largest in Africa, but its per capita income of about₦ 770 000 (US …

Local governments around the world are formulating different ways to address climate
change. However, the compounding and overlapping vulnerabilities of historically …

This paper offers a unifying conceptual framework for understanding the relationship
between climate change and “within-country inequalities,” referred here collectively as …

Resilience building has become a growing policy agenda, particularly for urban risk
management. While much of the resilience agenda has been shaped by policies and …

Cities are key sites where climate change is being addressed. Previous research has largely
overlooked the multiplicity of climate change responses emerging outside formal contexts of …

Climate change will have unavoidable impacts on urban systems and populations,
especially in Asia where many large cities are exposed. Climate adaptation will be essential …

In our 2005 paper, Rethinking Sustainable Cities, we made a case for the increasing
significance of climate change in the urban politics of sustainability. Taking a multilevel …

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 …

The movement of large, slow-moving, deep-seated landslides is regulated principally by
changes in pore-water pressure in the slope. In urban areas, drastic reorganization of the …

Climate change is acknowledged as the largest threat to our societies in the coming
decades, potentially affecting large and diverse groups of urban residents in this century of …