Institutionalising mechanisms for building urban climate resilience: experiences from India

This paper examines how mainstreaming of urban climate change resilience - a crucial consideration in an increasingly urbanised world - is occurring at both the city and national scale, using the case of an internationally-funded resilience-building initiative in India. Surat city's newly-estab...

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Published in:Development in practice 2014-05, Vol.24 (4), p.514-526
Main Authors: Karanth, Anup, Archer, Diane
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Automobiles
Cities
Climate
Climate Change
Environment (built and natural) - Climate change
Global warming
Governance and public policy
Government and politics
India
Institutionalism
Networks
Regional development
Resilience
South Asia
Trust
Urban Areas
Urban Development
Urbanism
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Summary:This paper examines how mainstreaming of urban climate change resilience - a crucial consideration in an increasingly urbanised world - is occurring at both the city and national scale, using the case of an internationally-funded resilience-building initiative in India. Surat city's newly-established Climate Change Trust illustrates the importance of an institutionalised mechanism for coordinating and sustaining climate initiatives. Concurrently, climate resilience is being mainstreamed into the national urban development agenda, through a network of Indian institutions. These two nascent mechanisms offer avenues for local city-level experiences to inform national directives, driving and sustaining the urban climate adaptation agenda across India.
ISSN:0961-4524
1364-9213
DOI:10.1080/09614524.2014.911246