Urban Resilience to the Climate Emergency: Unravelling the Transformative Potential of Institutional and Grassroots Initiatives

By Isabel Ruiz-Mallen

Book Overview

Part1. The Political Ecology of Urban Resilience.- Chapter1. Resilience for all or for some? Reflections through the lens of urban political ecology.- Chapter2. Bridging urban climate justice and participatory governance to explore the transformative capacity of climate resilience.- Part2. Uneven Implications of Top-Down Resilience.- Chapter3. Urban Resilience in Perspective: Tracing the Origins and Evolution of Urban Green Spaces in Barcelona.- Chapter4. Urban transformational adaptation: Contestation and struggles for authority in the pilot Barcelona superblock of Poblenou.- Chapter5. Urban resilience in Latin America: questions, themes and debates.- Part3. Bottom-Up and Co-Produced Resilience.- Chapter6. Nature-based solutions in European schools: a pioneering co-designed strategy towards urban resilience.- Chapter7. Social-ecological transformation to coexist with wildfire: Reflecting on 18 years of participatory wildfire governance.- Chapter8. Co-production of the climate emergency response: the case of Barcelona.- Chapter9. Contested spaces for negotiated urban resilience in Seville.- Part4. Final Remarks.- Chapter10. Afterword: Transformation pathways within urban climate resilience.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031073002
• ISBN13: 9783031073007
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 241 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"