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.
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.
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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.
read moreLa Uni Climática V edición
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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Innovative Climate Adaptation Measurement Strategies in 13 Global Cities
Urban areas worldwide are developing cutting-edge methods to measure and adapt to climate change. Our recent policy report “Innovative Climate Adaptation Measurement Strategies in 13 Global Cities,” led by Amanda Marino, former IMAGINE Adaptation colleague, explores how cities like Auckland, Barcelona, and Vancouver are advancing their Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting, and Learning (MERL) processes to build more robust adaptation strategies.
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IMAGINE adaptation teaching in the Masters in Urban Resilience for Sustainability Transitions
This week the IMAGINE Adaptation team are leading a course as part of the Master’s Degree in Urban Resilience for Sustainability Transitions at UIC Barcelona. The course, running from October 22 to 25, is led by in-person lecturer Dr. Ana Terra Amorim-Maia, with online contributions from Dr. Marta Olazabal and Dr. Sean Goodwin. The course provides students with an in-depth understanding of urban climate adaptation and resilience.
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Enhancing Collaboration: IMAGINE Adaptation Team’s Facilitation Skills Training Experience
On October 10, 2024, the IMAGINE Adaptation team participated in a one-day Facilitation Skills Training led by Judith Castillo at the Fabrika. The session aimed to enhance our ability to facilitate collaborative sessions by focusing on practical techniques, such as the Solution-Focused Approach. Using tools like the "Miracle Question" and "Scaling Question," the team explored our ideal facilitation superpowers and envisioned practical steps to achieve them.
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Cities show commitment to climate adaptation
On October 8th, Marta Olazabal participated in the seminar, titled ‘The catalytic role of cities in adaptation,’ which brought together policymakers, experts, and city leaders from Barcelona, Brussels, Enschede and Turku, to discuss how cities can overcome the challenges they face. Organised by Eurocities and CIDOB’s Global Cities Programme, the event explored strategies to further develop urban climate resilience.
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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.
read moreThe 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?"
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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?
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“We need to rethink urbanism”
Marta Olazabal gave an interview (in Spanish) to the local Radio Euskadi this past weekend.
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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.
read moreCities 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.
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Disrupting the imaginaries of urban action to deliver just adaptation
Editorial as part of the collection "Urban Adaptation: Disrupting Imaginaries & Practices"