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.
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.
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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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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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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.
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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.
read moreUrban 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.
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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.
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IMAGINE Adaptation at The Nature of the Cities Festival
Our session "Imagining Adaptation to Climate Change through Art" explored how the intersection of science and the arts can catalyse alternative imaginaries of climate adaptation in urban environments.
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First Expert Board Meeting
Last week, on April 17, IMAGINE Adaptation held the first meeting with our board of experts after the kick off.
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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"