Cities worldwide face climate change and other complex challenges and strive to become
more resilient to the shocks and stresses that these bring. The notion of urban (climate) …

Research on cultural heritage and disasters often focuses on the vulnerability of heritage
and ways to disaster-proof it against geophysical, societal, and environmental hazards …

Indonesian coastal cities are faced with a double imperative to urbanize quickly and to adapt
to climate-related disasters. These disasters include droughts, storms, regular floods, tidal …

Climate services, and research on climate services, have mutually developed over the past
20 years, with quality assessment a central issue for orienting both practitioners and …

Urban governance, the interplay of governmental bodies with other actors shaping decision-
making and its implementation, plays a key role for mitigation and adaptation measures in …

This article considers local resilience strategies and climate disaster management response
in cities, as well as their impacts in terms of climate adaptation and transformative change. It …

Climate change exacerbates existing threats and risks and generates new ones in the lives
of the Indigenous people of the Arctic regions. The ability to cope with climate variability and …

There is a growing consensus that to effectively adapt to climate change, cities need user-
friendly tools and reliable high-resolution biophysical and socio-economic data for analysis …

Climate services' main function has been to provide technical scientific evidence for decision-
making in formal institutions. This article makes a case for recognising the diverse functions …

Through the efforts shared in this chapter, we embrace the hypothesis that local
representations of our changing climate offer a key angle for facing climate change. We …