Making Cities Resilient to Climate Change : Identifying ‘Win-Win’ Interventions

Urbanization is truly a global phenomenon. Starting at 39% in 1980, the urbanization level rose to 52% in 2011. Ongoing rapid urbanization has led to increase in urban greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Urban climate change risks have also increased with more low-income urban dwellers living in climate...

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Main Author:	Dulal, Hari Bansha
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	en_US
Published:	Taylor and Francis 2016
Subjects:	urbanization cities climate change mitigation climate change adaptation developing countries
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24260

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spelling	okr-10986-242602021-05-26T09:05:19Z Making Cities Resilient to Climate Change : Identifying ‘Win-Win’ Interventions Dulal, Hari Bansha urbanization cities climate change mitigation climate change adaptation developing countries Urbanization is truly a global phenomenon. Starting at 39% in 1980, the urbanization level rose to 52% in 2011. Ongoing rapid urbanization has led to increase in urban greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Urban climate change risks have also increased with more low-income urban dwellers living in climate sensitive locations. Despite increased emissions, including GHGs and heightened climate change vulnerability, climate mitigation and adaptation actions are rare in the cities of developing countries, often viewed as “low-priority" issues, if anything. Cities are overwhelmed with worsening congestion, air pollution, crime, waste management, and unemployment problems. Lack of resources and capacity constraints are other factors that discourage cities from embarking on climate change mitigation and adaptation pathways. Given the multitude of problems faced, there is simply no appetite for stand-alone urban climate change mitigation and adaptation policies and programs. Urban mitigation and adaptation goals will have to be achieved as co-benefits of interventions targeted at solving pressing urban problems and challenges given the ground realities at the moment. The paper identifies administratively simple urban interventions that can help cities solve some of their pressing service delivery and urban environmental problems, while simultaneously mitigating rising urban GHG emissions and vulnerability to climate change. The paper also identifies implementation barriers and presents barrier removal options in order to facilitate wider diffusion of these interventions. 2016-05-09T21:54:20Z 2016-05-09T21:54:20Z 2016-04-09 Journal Article Local Environment 1354-9839 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24260 en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Taylor and Francis Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research
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spellingShingle	urbanization cities climate change mitigation climate change adaptation developing countries Dulal, Hari Bansha Making Cities Resilient to Climate Change : Identifying ‘Win-Win’ Interventions
description	Urbanization is truly a global phenomenon. Starting at 39% in 1980, the urbanization level rose to 52% in 2011. Ongoing rapid urbanization has led to increase in urban greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Urban climate change risks have also increased with more low-income urban dwellers living in climate sensitive locations. Despite increased emissions, including GHGs and heightened climate change vulnerability, climate mitigation and adaptation actions are rare in the cities of developing countries, often viewed as “low-priority" issues, if anything. Cities are overwhelmed with worsening congestion, air pollution, crime, waste management, and unemployment problems. Lack of resources and capacity constraints are other factors that discourage cities from embarking on climate change mitigation and adaptation pathways. Given the multitude of problems faced, there is simply no appetite for stand-alone urban climate change mitigation and adaptation policies and programs. Urban mitigation and adaptation goals will have to be achieved as co-benefits of interventions targeted at solving pressing urban problems and challenges given the ground realities at the moment. The paper identifies administratively simple urban interventions that can help cities solve some of their pressing service delivery and urban environmental problems, while simultaneously mitigating rising urban GHG emissions and vulnerability to climate change. The paper also identifies implementation barriers and presents barrier removal options in order to facilitate wider diffusion of these interventions.
format	Journal Article
author	Dulal, Hari Bansha
author_facet	Dulal, Hari Bansha
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title	Making Cities Resilient to Climate Change : Identifying ‘Win-Win’ Interventions
title_short	Making Cities Resilient to Climate Change : Identifying ‘Win-Win’ Interventions
title_full	Making Cities Resilient to Climate Change : Identifying ‘Win-Win’ Interventions
title_fullStr	Making Cities Resilient to Climate Change : Identifying ‘Win-Win’ Interventions
title_full_unstemmed	Making Cities Resilient to Climate Change : Identifying ‘Win-Win’ Interventions
title_sort	making cities resilient to climate change : identifying ‘win-win’ interventions
publisher	Taylor and Francis
publishDate	2016
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Making Cities Resilient to Climate Change : Identifying ‘Win-Win’ Interventions

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