Overview
- Compiles research documenting urban resilience strategies dealing with climatic changes
- Provides a nuanced exploration of urban climate governance and citizen engagement in urban climate policies
- Discusses grassroots transformative processes that address social inequalities in urban planning for climate change
Part of the book series: The Urban Book Series (UBS)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Political Ecology of Urban Resilience
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Uneven Implications of Top-Down Resilience
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Bottom-Up and Co-Produced Resilience
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Final Remarks
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About this book
Although several publications cover the topic of urban resilience, this book provides a more nuanced exploration of urban climate governance and citizen engagement in urban climate resilience policies through the lenses of political ecology, environmental justice and co-production. In this regard, the volume moves beyond the approach of multilevel urban climate governance by critically addressing the unexpected impacts of top-down strategies of urban resilience with the goal of expanding the reflection on citizen engagement. The book also explores the emerging possibilities behind the co-production of urban resilience as well as the critical role of grassroots and citizens in promoting such alternative strategies. While the primary target audience is scholars from different disciplines (e.g. geography, urban studies, planning, political ecology, architecture, urban sociology, environmental studies) focusing on urban resilience, the editors also aim to reach urban resilience practitioners from local, national and international organisations as well as environmental grassroots and climate activists.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Isabel Ruiz-Mallén is a 'Ramón y Cajal' Senior Researcher at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Spain. She is currently leading a research line on grassroots co-creation for sustainable solutions at the Laboratory of Urban Transformation and Global Change (TURBA). She has a proven ability to work across disciplines, from sustainability education to community-based conservation and climate change adaptation and resilience, in multicultural contexts (global North/South, rural/urban), and through exploring innovative participatory approaches (arts-based). Isabel is an environmental scientist holding a MSc in Biological Sciences from UNAM (2005) and a PhD in Environmental Sciences from UAB (2009).
Hug March is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Economy and Business, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). He is a researcher at the Laboratory of Urban Transformation and Global Change (TURBA, UOC), where he leads a research line on the political ecology of socio-environmental transformation. Hug obtained a PhD in Environmental Studies from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 2010. He has authored over 60 publications in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters in the fields of environmental studies, urban studies, geography and water studies. He has done extensive research on the urban political ecology of the water, including research on financialization and remunicipalisation.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Urban Resilience to the Climate Emergency
Book Subtitle: Unravelling the transformative potential of institutional and grassroots initiatives
Editors: Isabel Ruiz-Mallén, Hug March, Mar Satorras
Series Title: The Urban Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07301-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-07300-7Published: 01 October 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-07303-8Published: 02 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-07301-4Published: 30 September 2022
Series ISSN: 2365-757X
Series E-ISSN: 2365-7588
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 241
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour
Topics: Public Policy, Geography, general, Environment, general, Environmental Policy, Climate, general