Urban climate change governance and hot and arid zones: mutual learning and partnerships to build sustainable resilience solutions
Cities are increasingly perceived as being both more vulnerable to and a key part of the solution to the challenges of climate change, unsustainability and inadequate resilience. However, current city-making policies and methods are not explicitly designed to meet these challenges in a progressively diverse set of contexts. Hot and arid cities face compounded challenges due to the increasingly extreme nature of their environment and the carbon-intense nature of the conventional technologies required to enable cooling solutions, water, and food provision. Nevertheless, cities are also crucial to developing solutions to these challenges, but cities acting alone are generally less effective than working through knowledge and expertise-sharing processes and networks. Different models exist for achieving such objectives at different geographical, socio-cultural and politico-economic scales, as will be highlighted in this Brief.
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Published in: Earthna publications reports
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See report on publisher's website: https://www.earthna.qa/publications/reports/urban-climate-change-governance-and-hot-and-arid-zones-mutual-learning-and
Project Identifier (PI): CBE-2023-001
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Language
- English
Publisher
Earthna in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MECC)Publication Year
- 2023
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This Item is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.Institution affiliated with
- Earthna
- Qatar Foundation
- Ministry of Environment and Climate Change