Climate Adaptation Governance in Cities and Regions

Jrg Knieling is head of the Institute for Urban Planning and Regional Development of HafenCity University Hamburg, Germany, and Visiting Professor at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. His research has focused on strategies, instruments and the governance of sustainable urban and regional development as well as climate change adaptation and mitigation on the levels of cities and regions. He has been involved in various national and international research projects and scientific boards dealing with questions of urban and regional climate adaptation.

List of contributors, ix 1 Climate adaptation governance in cities and regions: framework conditions, theoretical concepts and research questions 1 Jrg Knieling and Katharina Klindworth Part 1: Theoretical basis 2 Applying social resilience concepts and indicators to support climate adaptation in tropical North Queensland, Australia 23 Allan Patrick Dale, Karen Vella, Ruth Potts, Bronwyn Voyce, Bob Stevenson, Alison Cottrell, David King, Hurriyet Babacan, Helen Boon, Margaret Gooch and Petina Pert 3 Spatial planning to promote urban resilience in coping with climate change and flooding: exploring two cases in Kaohsiung, Taiwan 45 Peiwen Lu 4 Adaptation to climate change and participatory action research (PAR): lessons from municipalities in Quebec, Canada 69 Steve Plante, Liette Vasseur and Charlotte DaCunha 5 Generating narratives on future risk to inform regional climate change adaptation planning 89 Douglas K. Bardsley, Nathanael D. Wiseman and Graeme J. Hugo 6 Advancing climate change adaptation and climate risk understanding through intervention research: case studies from Brazil and Australia 113 Silvia Serrao-Neumann, Gabriela Marques Di Giulio, Lucia Costa Ferreira and Darryl Low Choy 7 Climate adaptation and the significance of different modes of local political leadership: views of Swedish local political leaders 131 Mattias Hjerpe and Sofie Storbjrk Part 2: Hierarchical forms of coordination 8 Regulating climate change adaptation, the case of surface water 155 Trude Rauken 9 Climate adaptation governance theory, concepts, and praxis in cities and regions. The role of climate and water governance in supporting climate change adaptation processes 171 Walter Leal Filho, Margot A. Hurlbert and Harry Diaz 10 Climate problem and territorial governance: an overview of adaptation initiatives at the French regional level 191 Franois Bertrand, Elsa Richard and Corinne Larrue 11 Regional rescaling in adaptation governance: from agency to collaborative control in flood management in England? 209 Irene Lorenzoni, David Benson and Hadrian Cook 12 From case studies to policy-making: adapting to climate change in Lithuania 223 Justas Kažys, Egidijus Rimkus and Julija Naujkait 13 The rise and fall of climate adaptation governance on the Gold Coast, Australia 237 Michael Howes and Aysin Dedekorkut-Howes 14 Climate change adaptation in private real estate development: essential concepts about development for feasible research, regulation and governance 251 Eddo Coiacetto 15 Pro-poor climate change adaptation in Zambia 267 Danny Simatele Part 3: Informal and corporative forms of coordination 16 Climate change adaptation through hierarchies and networks in the city of Bergen 287 Marte Winsvold, Kari Johanne Hjeltnes, Jan Erling Klausen and Ove Langeland 17 Influence of citizens and stakeholders in shaping adaptation policy opportunities and barriers 305 Sren Gram, Bjrn Bedsted and Andreas Hastrup Clemmensen 18 Public participation in the governance of metropolitan scale climate adaptation: panacea or problem? 317 Paul Burton and Johanna Nalau 19 Governance for (climate) change in American "Legacy" cities: a case study of Cleveland 333 Sanda Kaufman 20 Governance of climate change adaptation on Small Island Developing States (SIDS) 355 Ilan Kelman 21 Adaptation in small coastal towns in Australia 371 Janet Stanley 22 Transnational learning for climate change adaptation in the Baltic Sea Region 389 Stefanie Lange Scherbenske and Lisa Van Well Part 4: Findings of Climate Change Adaptation in Cities and Regions 23 Climate adaptation governance in cities and regions between hierarchical steering and network cooperation: findings from theoretical considerations and international practice 405 Jrg Knieling and Katharina Klindworth Index, 421