Adapting to climate change: the ultimate challenge for the next half-century of local government?

Eckersley, P ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9048-8529 and Olazabal, M, 2024. Adapting to climate change: the ultimate challenge for the next half-century of local government? Local Government Studies, 50 (6), pp. 1041-1051. ISSN 0300-3930

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Abstract

Climate change will have a disproportionate and asymmetric impact on cities and urban areas, and some of their most vulnerable residents will be at particular risk. Studies have found that some municipalities have done far more to adapt to it than others, but there has been a general lack of funding, implementation and engagement with marginalised groups to help them prepare. We suggest that the unpredictable and evolving nature of climate impacts means that adaptation represents a defining public policy challenge for local governments in the coming decades. We set out the broad epistemological, practical and justice issues that this challenge presents for the practice and study of local government in the coming decades, and argue that addressing it will require new approaches that go beyond discrete and familiar solutions.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Local Government Studies
Creators:	Eckersley, P. and Olazabal, M.
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
Date:	2024
Volume:	50
Number:	6
ISSN:	0300-3930
Identifiers:	Number Type 2218031 Other 10.1080/03003930.2024.2407021 DOI
Rights:	© 2024 the author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
Divisions:	Schools > Nottingham Business School
Record created by:	Laura Ward
Date Added:	18 Sep 2024 09:45
Last Modified:	18 Dec 2024 11:16
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/52251

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