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Resilient Cities? The Global Politics of Urban Climate Adaptation

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The Power of Cities in Global Climate Politics

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Abstract

This chapter explores the extent to which cities and city-networks have been able to articulate and negotiate new forms of power by demonstrating a need for recognition and assistance that may facilitate adaptation at the urban scale. Building upon the previous chapter, it makes the case that the politics of urban climate adaptation have occurred in reaction and response to a Westphalian system that effectively reifies the power of nation-states. However, animating, disseminating and in some cases contradicting the politics of multilateral climate governance is a parallel process of network and corporate governance, whose metrics, indicators and benchmarking exercises provide important forms of performative power that are being used to organize and orchestrate the ways in which cities, city-networks and corporations are defining resilience, vulnerability and risk in the Paris climate regime.

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    Exposure in turn implies the existence of social and biophysical pathways that connect climatic/environmental stressors with affected populations (Smit and Wandel 2006; Adger 2006). Finally, adaptive capacity implies the assets, public services, infrastructure and institutions (including formal services and informal coping mechanisms) that affected populations have at their disposal.

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    Outside of the UNFCCC, many donors and aid agencies are now actively involved in promoting adaptation programs of their own. Particularly notable from a multilateral perspective are the City Resilience Profiling Programme (https://unhabitat.org/urban-initiatives/initiatives-programmes/city-resilience-profiling-programme/) and the Cities in Climate Change Programme (https://unhabitat.org/urban-initiatives/initiatives-programmes/cities-and-climate-change-initiative/), both administered by UN-Habitat. For a comprehensive summary of international adaptation (and mitigation) initiatives, see “Climate Funds Update” at http://www.climatefundsupdate.org/data/the-funds-v2.

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