Successful Adaptation, Urban Imaginaries

What is limiting how we imagine adaptation?

IMAGINE climate change adaptation
in urban areas

IMAGINE Adaptation addresses the urgent need to evaluate climate change adaptation in urban areas and understand progress across governance levels. It argues that the current focus on policy progress can be a useful first step, but it is not indicative of effective adaptation.

The project aims to revisit the concept of adaptation success and go beyond technical framings to consider equity, justice, and maladaptive issues. In doing so the project will pioneer new ways to evaluate adaptation, and contribute to discussions on how local progress can inform global goals.

Only by understanding what good adaptation looks like, can we think of how to evaluate it.

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Monitoring and Evaluation

Evaluating Urban nature-based solutions: What Makes Good Information?

In recent years, nature-based solutions (NbS) have gained traction as a vital strategy for addressing the interconnected challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss, and social inequality in urban environments. However, measuring the effectiveness of these solutions, particularly in terms of their contribution to climate adaptation, requires a nuanced understanding of what constitutes relevant and useful information.

Sean Goodwin

14.10.24
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Successful Adaptation, Urban Imaginaries

What is limiting how we imagine adaptation?

We are happy to tell you that our new open-access review paper is out now in the journal Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability.

Marta Olazabal

11.09.24
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La Uni Climática V edición

July 15, 2024
- July 19, 2024
Online

La quinta edición de La Uni Climática estará dedicada a la adaptación. El 15 de julio vuelve el espacio de formación online sobre clima y biodiversidad con una treintena de ponencias bajo demanda y contenidos en directo durante la semana de inauguración. En total, participarán una treintena de especialistas. Destacan Ana Terra Amorim-Maia (BC3) y Marta Olazabal (BC3).

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latest news
Monitoring and Evaluation

Evaluating Urban nature-based solutions: What Makes Good Information?

In recent years, nature-based solutions (NbS) have gained traction as a vital strategy for addressing the interconnected challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss, and social inequality in urban environments. However, measuring the effectiveness of these solutions, particularly in terms of their contribution to climate adaptation, requires a nuanced understanding of what constitutes relevant and useful information.

Sean Goodwin

14.10.24
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Successful Adaptation

The ultimate challenge

Peter Eckersley from Nottingham Business School in Nottingham Trent University, and Marta Olazabal from IMAGINE Adaptation contribute to the special issue with an opinion article "Adapting to climate change: the ultimate challenge for the next half-century of local government?"

Marta Olazabal

07.10.24
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Successful Adaptation

Radio Collaboration: Climate Change and the 21st Century

The first quarter of the 21st Century is nearly over. What have we achieved so far? What are the challenges that we are going to face over the next 25 years?

Maria Loroño Leturiondo

01.10.24
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Successful Adaptation

“We need to rethink urbanism”

Marta Olazabal gave an interview (in Spanish) to the local Radio Euskadi this past weekend.

Marta Olazabal

11.09.24
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Successful Adaptation, Urban Imaginaries

What is limiting how we imagine adaptation?

We are happy to tell you that our new open-access review paper is out now in the journal Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability.

Marta Olazabal

11.09.24
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Monitoring and Evaluation, Successful Adaptation

Cities need more than green fixes to climate change.

Sean Goodwin recently gave an interview (in Spanish) for Equipamento y Servicios Municipales on the potential for green infrastructure in cities.

Sean Goodwin

06.09.24
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Successful Adaptation

Using intersectionality to localise the GGA

We are happy to share our viewpoint published in the Special Issue “Navigating the Nexus: Intersectional Climate Justice in Urban Adaptation Planning” of the journal Cities. This opinion article has been written by Ana Terra Amorim-Maia and Marta Olazabal.

Ana Terra Amorim-Maia

Marta Olazabal

12.08.24
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Monitoring and Evaluation

Wondering how to evaluate justice in climate adaptation projects at the city level?

Our colleague and collaborator Maria Ruiz de Gopegui asked herself that in her PhD research.

Marta Olazabal

María Ruiz de Gopegui

11.08.24
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Special Issue

Urban adaptation: disrupting imaginaries and practices

Vanesa Castan-Broto, Marta Olazabal and Gina Ziervogel have guest edited a quite special special issue in the fantastic journal Buildings and Cities. The special issue aims to enlarge the range of adaptation narratives grounded in experiences from cities worldwide.

Marta Olazabal

17.06.24
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Successful Adaptation, Team Update

Reflecting on our recent workshop: Disentangling Successful Adaptation Using Theory of Change

Last week, the IMAGINE Adaptation hosted an international workshop on “Disentangling successful adaptation using theory of change” in Bergen, Norway. Our aim was to create a collaborative space for rethinking and identifying the changes needed for effective climate adaptation.

William Lewis

24.05.24
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upcoming events

ISEE 2024 in Girona

October 18, 2024
- October 19, 2024
University of Girona

Marta Olazabal will give the keynote entitled "Retos de frontera en la planificación de la adaptación climática a escala local".

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Featured output

Disrupting the imaginaries of urban action to deliver just adaptation

Editorial as part of the collection "Urban Adaptation: Disrupting Imaginaries & Practices"

Vanesa Castán Broto, Marta Olazabal, Gina Ziervogel

2024