Climate change and the city: Building capacity for urban adaptation
- Submitting institution
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Manchester Metropolitan University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 109935
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1016/j.progress.2013.08.001
- Title of journal
- Progress in Planning
- Article number
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- First page
- 1
- Volume
- 95
- Issue
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- ISSN
- 0305-9006
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- July
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305900614000397
- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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5
- Research group(s)
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A - Architecture
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This article emerged from the Bruntwood Initiative for Sustainable Cities (Ecocites) project, funded by the Oglesby Charitable Trust. The project brought together climate scientists, social scientists, and spatial planners to provide research that supported the creation of a blueprint for climate change adaptation for Greater Manchester (GM). In order to bring together the diverse research strands, the major academic output was a 30,000 word journal article in ’Progress in Planning‘. The article is original by bringing together social and physical data analysis to develop recommendations at the urban scale. It also promoted a risk-based view of climate change adaptation which anticipated a change in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s conceptualisation of climate change adaptation. Connelly’s contribution here was to examine the social networks that potentially surround action on advancing climate change adaptation in the built environment in Greater Manchester, and recommended how these could be harnessed. This work helped to underscore the need for cross-sector collaborative working to advance climate change adaptation. The article is currently one of the most top cited articles to be published in ’Progress in Planning‘. Not only has the paper received academic interest, as evidenced through the number of citations, but has influenced GM policy documents relating to climate change since EcoCities’ research helped to change practice around including climate change adaptation alongside mitigation in GMCA strategies. The ideas underpinning the article were taken forward by Carter, Connelly and Handley into the H2020-funded Climate Resilient Cities and Infrastructure (2015-2018) project, to further tested the possibility of implementing adaptation in critical infrastructure in Greater Manchester.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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