Extreme climatic events like heat waves, floods, and droughts affect men and women from the marginalized sections differentially. The vulnerability to climate change is exacerbated by the intersection of gender with other inequalities such as class, social status, and location. This review attempts to develop a typology of climate change adaptation (CCA) interventions to tackle… Continue reading Climate change adaptation interventions in cities of LMICs from a gender lens: A qualitative systematic review of intervention features and implementation issues

The Lisbon Metropolitan Area (AML), located in the Mediterranean region, is particularly vulnerable to climate hazards, such as extreme temperatures. In particular, the concentration of population in this urban area has largely increased the exposure to the urban heat island effect (UHI) and heatwaves are posing substantial challenges to human health, infrastructures and energy systems,… Continue reading Contrasting Adaptation Measures: Developing Plans for Urban Greening Against Heat in the Interface between Climate Modelling and Stakeholder Participation

Climate adaptation is needed as cities around the world face climate impacts increasing in intensity and frequency. Cities have taken many different adaptation approaches, but efforts have largely fallen short. Tracking adaptation progress is needed to ensure adequate implementation, especially in the most vulnerable and under-resourced areas. Despite the importance of tracking progress, a systematic… Continue reading Developing a global spatiotemporal database of urban adaptation actions

The city of Huế has experienced significant urban growth, driven by population growth, economic development, and rural-to-urban migration. This expansion has intensified the city's vulnerability to flooding, a recurring natural hazard exacerbated by climate change and inadequate urban planning. Despite growing awareness of the importance of ecosystem-based adaptation in urban flood management, there remains a… Continue reading Modelling Future Urban Growth Scenarios in the Context of SSPs and Ecosystem-Based Adaptation to Address Flood risk in Huế Vietnam.

In the context of climate change adaptation, coastal cities deserve special attention as they are faced with an abundance of climate impacts while also being engines of economic development, innovation, and culture with, in theory, high adaptation potential. While there is eclectic evidence for urban adaptation, we are lacking a global overview of the extent… Continue reading Progress and gaps in climate change adaptation in coastal cities across the globe

Climate change poses serious challenges to cities around the world, undermining their economic potential to generate economic growth and improve the quality of life. While Pakistani cities frequently experience extreme temperatures, heat waves, humidity, flooding, and acute water shortages; their susceptibility is aggravated by socioeconomic challenges such as poverty, unemployment, and inadequate provisions of basic… Continue reading Urban communities’ readiness for low-cost nature-based climate adaptation in Pakistan

Climate Adaptation and Resilience (CLARE) is a UK-Canada framework research programme that aims to build resilience to climate change in Africa and Asia-Pacific (https://clareprogramme.org). CLARE is producing action-oriented research and syntheses, ranging from anticipating and acting ahead of cyclones and droughts, to the investments needed now to understand and tackle future climate risks, to locally-led… Continue reading Climate Adaptation and Resilience (CLARE): evidence-based climate adaptation action through transdisciplinary, co-created, capacity-focussed research and syntheses

A key part of CLARE’s theory of change is to support research partnerships, produce knowledge and innovation, strengthen capacity and pursue research impact in support of transformational change. This requires individual research projects’ to focus on impact pathways, as well as identifying and pursuing some “threads” that bring together findings that have potential for transformational… Continue reading CLARE Threads: weaving together co-produced research evidence