Global Climate Change: A Challenge to Urban Infrastructure Planners

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Climate-change challenge continues

There was euphoria amongst many delegates to last month's UN climate change conference in Montreal as countries struck a deal at the twelfth hour, but many researchers are concerned that a major study on the degree to which greenhouse gases need to be reduced to stabilise climate is still pressing. " Without an agreement on what level of climate change is 'dangerous' world leaders risk losing s...

Climate Change Adaptation, Urban Flooding and Water: Old Problems, New Challenges for Planners and Architects

The effects of global warming on sea level rise is one of the most challenging immediate futures faced by planning and the design disciplines. These effects can lead to grave conseTuences in coastal cities and is a growing field for policy and plan making in the 8nited 6tates and across the globe. -oao Pedro Costa brings us this debate from an (uropean perspective, discussing the challenges and...

Climate Change Adaptaion, Urban Flooding and Water: Old Problems, New Challenges for Planners and Architects

Maintaining Climate Change Experiments: Urban Political Ecology and the Everyday Reconfiguration of Urban Infrastructure

Climate change governance is increasingly being conducted through urban climate change experiments, purposive interventions that seek to reconfigure urban sociotechnical systems to achieve low-carbon and resilient cities. In examining how experiments take effect, we suggest that we need to understand not only how they are made and assembled, but also how they are maintained within specific urba...