Urban Movements and Climate Change

Marco Armiero is ICREA Research Professor, Institut d'Història de la Ciència (IHC), Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain and president of the European Society of Environmental History. Formerly, he directed the Environmental Humanities Laboratory (EHL) at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. He has extensively published on environmental justice, climate change, migration, and nationalization of nature. Salvatore Paolo de Rosa is a researcher at Center for Applied Ecological Thinking, University of Copenhagen. Previously, he was a researcher at Lund University in Sweden, where he also received his PhD in Human Geography. With a background in anthropology and political ecology, his research focuses on collective action and socio-environmental transformations towards sustainability and justice. Ethemcan Turhan is an assistant professor of environmental planning at the Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. His research is situated in the broadly defined field of political ecology with empirical and conceptual attention to climate justice and energy democracy. He is the co-editor of the book, Transforming Socio-Natures in Turkey: Landscapes, State and Environmental Movements (Routledge, 2019).

• List of figures, Acknowledgements, Foreword: From Occupy Climate Change! to Confronting Loss and Damage - David Naguib Pellow, 1. Occupy Climate Change: An introduction - Marco Armiero, Salvatore Paolo De Rosa, and Ethemcan Turhan, 2. Hope in something: An earthly tragedy in five acts - Vanesa Castán Broto, 3. Struggles for democratic decarbonization: Lessons from New York City - Ashley Dawson, 4. Disobey, block, organize: The politics and strategies of grassroots climate activism in Malmö and Sweden - Salvatore Paolo De Rosa, 5. Catalyzing transformational action for climate change adaptation: The Ala Wai management plan in Honolulu, U.S.A. - Valentine Huet, 6. Turning urban fragilities into resources for a just climate governance - Gilda Berruti and Maria Federica Palestino, 7. Narratives on Babylon Hill: Exploring the making of a community and its urban forest through oral and environmental history (1985-2015) - Lise Sedrez and Natasha Augusto Barbosa, 8. Repositioning marginal spaces in climate adaptation: Periphery, power and possibility - Karen Paiva Henrique, 9. Immigrant communities in Europe as situated knowledge-holders for postcolonial and feminist urban adaptation to climate health risks - Panagiota Kotsila, 10. Small towns facing big problems: Sustainable development, social choice and the challenge of local-level organizing for the environment Insights from Flagler Beach, U.S.A. - Chad Boda, 11. Practices of resilience: questioning urban adaptation in the Chilean social upsurge - Cristina Visconti, 12. A user manual for just cities? - Aurash Khawarzad, Contributors, Index