The issue
Bringing together diverse perspectives from academia, practice, civil society, and beyond, this special issue tackles urgent gaps in understanding and addressing urban vulnerability and climate change, linking them to the evolving debate on urban loss and damage.
Themes and Critical Lenses
Structural vulnerabilities, economic and non-economic losses and damages, informal settlements, community-led data, data accuracy and breadth, historical and structural drivers, participatory planning, climate (im-)mobility, tenure security, secondary cities, institutional responses, discourse evolution, nature-based solutions, transformative governance, context-specific innovations … and more
Contextual Spotlights
Bangladesh, Brazil, Ghana, India, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, examples from Southeast Asia and Sub-Sahara Africa … and more
Edited by Marwa Khalifa, Kai Klause, Eva Dick, Simone Sandholz, Franziska Laue
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