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The Role of Meso-level Organizations in Climate Adaptation for Small-Scale Producers in Sub-Saharan Africa-insights from four African Countries Open
This analysis examines the meso-level organizations (MLOs) that are core climate change adaptation (CCA) actors responsible for interweaving micro-level rural community needs with macro-level policy and finance intentions, using qualitativ…
Negotiating informality and urban resilience: implications for equity Open
Informality is a distinguishing characteristic of cities in the Global South and is strongly associated with urban inequality. Yet, in pursuing resilience, urban resilience strategies and planning have yet to grapple with the role of infor…
Emergent polycentric governance in response to drought: Motivations, transaction costs, and feedback in corporate and city collaboration Open
The threat of service failures because of climate shocks can provoke a re‐negotiation of roles and responsibilities among private and public actors, and a shift towards more polycentric arrangements. This research builds on frameworks for …
View article: Using exploratory modeling to challenge narratives of risk governance in Mexico City
Using exploratory modeling to challenge narratives of risk governance in Mexico City Open
Achieving more sustainable adaptation to social–environmental change demands the transformation of the narratives that provide the rationale for risk governance. These narratives often reflect long-standing beliefs about social and politic…
Institutional Change of Farmer-Managed Irrigation Systems: Experience from Nepal Open
Farmer-Managed Irrigation Systems (FMIS) have successfully governed the use of water resources for irrigation for many decades in Nepal. However, in the ensuing years, Nepal’s agriculture sector has been subjected to multiple stressors. Th…
Advancing recognition justice in telecoupled critical mineral supply chains: The promise of social media Open
Electric vehicles and other low-carbon technologies are increasingly scrutinized for the injustices they impose on critical-mineral mining communities. Injustices arise because local communities that are disproportionately affected by mini…
Emergent governance responses to shocks to critical provisioning systems Open
The structure and functioning of formal and informal governance arrangements and associated infrastructure prior to major environmental disturbance play a central role in how cities experience and respond to such events. This paper conside…
Uncomfortable knowledge: Mechanisms of urban development in adaptation governance Open
Urban economic development is one of the primary engines of hazard exposure and differential social vulnerability, nevertheless, the drivers of urban development are rarely explicitly tackled in work on climate adaptation or resilience gov…
Sense of Agency, Affectivity and Social-Ecological Degradation: An Enactive and Phenomenological Approach Open
In the last few years, there has been an interest in understanding the impact of environmental change and degradation on people's affective life. This issue has become particularly pressing for populations whose form of life is heavily dep…
Who’s fighting for justice?: advocacy in energy justice and just transition scholarship Open
Recent political, economic and policy change in the US, Australia, and Europe, in particular, have put transitions towards low-carbon energy futures at the forefront of local and national policy agendas. How these transitions are managed i…
Identifying, projecting, and evaluating informal urban expansion spatial patterns Open
Informal urban land expansion is produced through a diversity of social and political transactions, yet ‘pixelizable’ data capturing these transactions is commonly unavailable. Understanding informal urbanization entails differentiating sp…
Critical minerals for electric vehicles: a telecoupling review Open
The rapid growth of electric vehicles adoption, which plays a crucial role to reduce transportation carbon emissions, is leading to a surge in demand for critical minerals such as cobalt, nickel, lithium, and rare earths. Efforts to system…
Crisis, transformation, and agency: Why are people going back-to-the-land in Greece? Open
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11625-021-01043-5.
Reframing sustainability challenges Open
'Framing' is a key concept in the pathways approach which was developed and applied in the design and implementation of the project. This chapter draws on various hub case studies and explains how each of them contributes to our understand…
View article: Emerging insights and lessons for the future
Emerging insights and lessons for the future Open
This concluding chapter summarises the key findings of the ‘Pathways’ transformative knowledge network (TKN), its contributions to the ‘sustainability transformations’ literature and the lessons and implications for internationally network…
Entry points for addressing justice and politics in urban flood adaptation decision making Open
Adaptation decisions are necessarily about the distribution of risk and resources and thus are inherently political, with implications for equity and justice. These concerns are increasingly recognized to be pertinent in adaptation to urba…
The role of institutional entrepreneurs and informal land transactions in Mexico City’s urban expansion Open
Informal urban expansion, or conversion of land to urban land uses, outpaces formal urbanization in the developing world. Understanding why this informality exists and persists is essential to counteract characterizations that it is chaoti…
The unapparent effect of climate forcing on urban amoebiasis in Mexico City Open
A bstract Despite advances in the provision of sanitation infrastructure in cities, diarrheal-related illnesses continue to be a global burden. In cities of the developing world, explanations for the persistence of diarrheal-related diseas…
View article: Addressing complex, political and intransient sustainability challenges of transdisciplinarity: The case of the MEGADAPT project in Mexico City
Addressing complex, political and intransient sustainability challenges of transdisciplinarity: The case of the MEGADAPT project in Mexico City Open
Transdisciplinarity (TD) is now recognized as one of several core approaches to sustainability science. Efforts over the last decade have led to the conceptualization of transdisciplinary endeavors and the definition of practices that defi…
View article: SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF ADAPTIVE CAPACITY TO CLIMATE CHANGE: A CASE OF STUDY FROM BRAZIL
SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF ADAPTIVE CAPACITY TO CLIMATE CHANGE: A CASE OF STUDY FROM BRAZIL Open
While the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) has been widely used to ascertain the vulnerability of households to environmental change, the sensitivity of adaptive capacity indices to uncertain appraisals and judgments of the magnitudes and …
Beyond the barriers: An overview of mechanisms driving barriers to adaptation in Bangladesh Open
Climate change adaptation governance involves multiple actors, operating from local to national level, and during their interactions, several challenges may surface and act as barriers to adaptation. While existing studies attempted to cre…
Editorial: Sustainability Challenges for Our Urban Futures Open
EDITORIAL article Front. Environ. Sci., 26 November 2020 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2020.606777
What are the ingredients for food systems change towards sustainability?—Insights from the literature Open
Many detrimental effects on the environment, economy, and society are associated with the structure and practices of food systems around the world. While there is increasing agreement on the need for substantive change in food systems towa…
View article: Correction to: Expressions of collective grievance as a feedback in multi-actor adaptation to water risks in Mexico City
Correction to: Expressions of collective grievance as a feedback in multi-actor adaptation to water risks in Mexico City Open
The article "Expressions of collective grievance as a feedback in multi-actor adaptation to water risks in Mexico City", written by Hallie Eakin, Rebecca Shelton, Andrés Baeza, Luis A. Bojórquez-Tapia, Shalae Flores, Jagadish Parajuli, Ile…