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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: | | | |  |  | Matthew Wood | Vicky Simpson

Associates:  |  |  | Anne Maassen

Interrogations

Partners

Publications

Journal articles
  • Olazabal M, Chu E, Castán Broto V & Patterson J (2021) . One Earth, 4(6), 828-838.
  • Huang, P., Westman, L. K., & Castán Broto, V. (2021). . Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.
  • Ruiz-Campillo X, Castán Broto V & Westman L (2021) . 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). . International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. DOI: Castán Broto, V., & Robin, E. (2020). . Urban Geography, 1-6.
  • Castán Broto, V., & Robin, E. (2020). . Urban Geography, 1-6.
Books
  • 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) . Cambridge University Press. 
Book chapters
  • Rigon A & Castán Broto V (2021) , Inclusive Urban Development in the Global South (pp. 1-14).
  • Robin E & Castán Broto V (2021) , Inclusive Urban Development in the Global South (pp. 182-197).

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