Climate Urbanism
Climate change demands urgent action. This call is heard most loudly in rapidly growing urban areas. Cities are key to implementing the 2015 Paris Agreement - a coordinated policy effort to combat climate change and adapt to its effects.
By focusing on cities as the most appropriate sites of action and prioritising the protection of infrastructures, climate urbanism is transforming the fabric of everyday life.
This theme examines the history, processes and implications of the rise of climate urbanism as a model for urban development.
Research Questions
- What is climate urbanism and how does it differ from other models of urbanisation?
- What perspectives inform climate urbanism and with what consequences for how we plan and govern our cities?
- How, where, and why is climate urbanism embraced, promoted, or contested?
- How is climate urbanism transforming the physical and social fabric of urban life?
People
Theme Lead: Vanesa Castán Broto
UI members: Erika Conchis | Ping Huang |Enora Robin | Hita Unnikrishnan | Linda Westman | Aidan While | Matthew Wood | Vicky Simpson
Associates: Jenny Pickerill | Pauline McGuirk | Xira Ruiz Campillo | Anne Maassen
Interrogations
Partners
- Addis Ababa University
- Azim Premji University
- C40 Cities
- Centre for Research on Governance and Development
- Durham University
- Eduardo Mondlane University
- Loughborough University
- Mekelle University
- Mzuzu University
- University College London
- University of Ghana
- University of Oxford
- University of Utrecht
- University of York
- World Resources Institute
Publications
- Journal articles
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- Olazabal M, Chu E, Castán Broto V & Patterson J (2021) Subaltern forms of knowledge are required to boost local adaptation. One Earth, 4(6), 828-838.
- Huang, P., Westman, L. K., & Castán Broto, V. (2021). A culture‐led approach to understanding energy transitions in China: The correlative epistemology. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.
- Ruiz-Campillo X, Castán Broto V & Westman L (2021) Motivations and intended outcomes in local governments' declarations of climate emergency. Politics and Governance, 9(2), 17-28.
- Castán Broto, V., Robin, E., & While, A. (2020). Climate urbanism: towards a critical research agenda. Palgrave MacMillan.
- Robin, E., & Broto, V. C. (2020). Towards a postcolonial perspective on climate urbanism. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.12981Castán Broto, V., & Robin, E. (2020). Climate urbanism as critical urban theory. Urban Geography, 1-6.
- Castán Broto, V., & Robin, E. (2020). Climate urbanism as critical urban theory. Urban Geography, 1-6.
- Books
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- Castán Broto, V., Robin, E., & While, A. (2020). Climate urbanism: towards a critical research agenda. Palgrave MacMillan.
- Castan Broto V & Westman L (2019) Urban Sustainability and Justice Just Sustainabilities and Environmental Planning. Zed Books Ltd.
- Castán Broto V (2019) Urban Energy Landscapes. Cambridge University Press.
- Book chapters
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- Rigon A & Castán Broto V (2021) Introduction, Inclusive Urban Development in the Global South (pp. 1-14).
- Robin E & Castán Broto V (2021) Intersectionality Aspects of Community Energy in Urban Areas, Inclusive Urban Development in the Global South (pp. 182-197).