The IMAGINE adaptation team is currently teaching a module in the Masters in City Resilience Design and Management at the International University of Catalonia (UIC), in Barcelona.
In this Masters’ program, students hailing from all corners of the globe immerse themselves in a comprehensive, multidisciplinary exploration of urban resilience and sustainability. This exploration is facilitated through a structured curriculum, comprising five distinct modules:
- Resilience theory
- Resilience of infrastructure and the built environment
- Resilience and nature-based solutions
- Community resilience
- Urban resilience implementation
Our team is teaching within the first module, covering aspects of climate resilience and urban climate adaptation.
Marta Olazabal introduces the critical and profound societal challenges that climate change poses for cities and dives into solutions, measures, and approaches to mitigate and adapt to these changes at the local level.
Ana Amorim-Maia delves into the general development process and content structure of local climate adaptation plans, providing students with a strong foundation in the principles, concepts, and actions that underpin effective climate adaptation planning.
William Lewis equips students with tools to track and assess local adaptation policies, introducing a valuable tool to measure the credibility of climate plans.
Finally, Sean Goodwin rounds off the module by presenting innovative monitoring and evaluation techniques, providing new perspectives on how to comprehend whether cities are effectively adapting to climate change.
By the end of the module, students are well-prepared to grasp the essence of climate change adaptation. They understand how to design and implement a climate adaptation action plan, evaluate the credibility of existing climate policies, and employ effective monitoring and evaluation methods to gauge adaptation progress.
This module aligns well with the core objectives of the IMAGINE adaptation project, which are to (re)define successful adaptation in order to better monitor and evaluate progress in this critical arena. We are committed to nurturing the next generation of urban resilience practitioners, empowering them to lead the way in building more sustainable cities for the future.
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.
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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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Become an IMAGINE Adaptation Case Study
Is your city interested in learning more about and developing your approach to monitoring, evaluation, reporting, and learning of urban adaptation? If so, apply to collaborate with us and become an IMAGINE Adaptation Case Study!
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Intersectional approaches for intersecting crises
In this article featured in The Conversation Spain, Ana explains how climate vulnerability is defined by the intersection of different social positions, such as gender, ethnicity, ability, and social class.
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Imagining Adaptation through Art
Only by understanding what good adaptation looks like, can we think of how to evaluate it. Read on to learn how we investigated the views of 100 local adaptation professionals to create a broader understanding of adaptation success.
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How will we know when we are adapting?
The IMAGINE Adaptation team is in the process of synthesising key approaches to monitoring, evaluating, reporting and learning (MERL) for adaptation projects, aiming to reduce uncertainty for local actors involved in adaptation management. Keep reading to find out how you can get involved.
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950 years of adaptation expertise
Our team interviewed 50 of the most eminent climate adaptation experts to understand how their worldviews and experiences help understand the current state of the field, its trajectory, and the pathways forward. Here we share a preview of the process and conversations.
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Adaptation: Preparation and Review – An Example from Melbourne
Examples from Melbourne on what a city can do by refreshing its Climate Change Adaptation Strategy.
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