This presentation of a paper, by BASE partners Anne Jensen (AU), Eliška Lorencová (CG), Xin Li (UoL), Mark Zandvoort (Deltares), Marjolijn Haasnoot (Deltares), Bjørn Bedsted (DBT), Margaretha Breil (CMCC), Filipe Alves (FCCUL), Oliver Gerbhardt (UFZ), Anders Branth Pedersen (AU) and Helle Ørsted Nielsen (AU), was given at the DCE Science for the Environment conference.
Abstract
Cities are widely recognized as key nodes of economic, social, environmental, cultural and political activities as well as concentrations of diverse people and multiple flows. Being key nodes, with cities’ activities affecting adaptation and the amount of people and economic activities that are affected by the impact of a changing climate in the urban, cities hold a crucial position in societal responses to the impacts of climate change. With these impacts becoming increasingly evident, cities face challenges related to complexity and uncertainty in crafting timely and apt responses and implementing these in contexts that are equally marked by a range of other pressing issues for urban policy. However, there are wide differences in how well cities are equipped to manage these challenges. These differences in adaptive capacity of cities and their determinants are not sufficiently covered in urban / climate adaptation literature.
