Social, Ecological, and Technological Strategies for Climate Adaptation

Abstract Resilient cities are able to persist, grow, and even transform while keeping their essential identities in the face of external forces like climatechange, which threatens lives, livelihoods, structures processes urban environment (United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, How make more resilient: a handbook local government leaders. Switzerland, Geneva, 2017). Scenario development is novel approach visioning resilient futures cities. As an instrument synthesizing data envisioning futures, scenarios combine diverse datasets such as biophysical models, stakeholder perspectives, demographic information (Carpenter et al. Ecol Soc 20:10, 2015). tool envision alternative participatoryscenario explores, identifies, evaluates potential outcomes tradeoffs associated with management social–ecological change, incorporating multiple stakeholder’s collaborative subjectivity (Galafassi 22:2, Understanding current landscape city planning governance approaches important developing city-specific scenarios. In particular, assessing municipal strategies through lens interactive social–ecological–technological systems (SETS) provides useful insight into dynamics interrelationships these coupled (da Silva Sustain Dev 4(2):125–145, 2012). An assessment existing can also be used inform future adaptation strategic plans addressing extreme weather events. With scenario process guiding stakeholders generating goals visions participatory workshops, content analysis documents from SETS perspective key on specific that have been considered (or overlooked) this chapter, we (a) demonstrate examine how define prioritize climate documents, (b) address vulnerabilities exemplified by nine North Latin America where conducted (c) suggest codebook explore proposed challenges—specifically related events heat, drought, flooding.