Broto, VC;
(2014)
Viewpoint: Planning for climate change in the African city.
International Development Planning Review
, 36
(3)
257 - 264.
10.3828/idpr.2014.23.
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Abstract
In this viewpoint I argue for a perspective on climate change in African cities that focuses on challenges and also opportunities for action. Delivering climate change adaptation in cities in the first instance requires addressing immediate infrastructure and service provision needs, because increasing climate change resilience in cities also requires improving the delivery of services to all citizens. However, there is a risk that climate change discourses facilitate the deployment of technocratic, expert-led forms of planning, particularly when climate change is used as an excuse to facilitate the intervention of international planning consultants who most often know little about the local context of planning. This paper advocates instead approaches to climate change action that harness opportunities on the ground to engage with the creative potential that urban citizens already have and to draw attention to the need to develop planning skills from within the city.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Viewpoint: Planning for climate change in the African city |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.3828/idpr.2014.23 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/idpr.2014.23 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © Liverpool University Press 2015. |
| Keywords: | planning, climate change, adaptation, Africa, experimentation |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > UCL Institute for Global Prosperity |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1432931 |
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| 2. |  United States | 9 |
| 3. |  China | 8 |
| 4. |  South Africa | 5 |
| 5. |  Germany | 3 |
| 6. |  Iran, Islamic Republic of | 3 |
| 7. |  United Kingdom | 3 |
| 8. |  Canada | 2 |
| 9. |  Australia | 2 |
| 10. |  Croatia | 1 |
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