Cities around the planet are facing climate change risks including (but not limited to) extreme heat, drought, wildfire, and flooding. Urbanites perceptions of posed by influence communities' mitigation adaption responses, but there is literature on in cities. Urban impacts multi-scalar, existing work isolates local versus global considerations. Adaptive capacity affects impacts, yet scholarship urban typically framed through an adaptive lens. In this study, we explore how exposure to...

Urban climate adaptation through nature-based solutions (NBS) requires collective action that incorporates spatial justice considerations. Collective actions reveal new ways of thinking about urban green commons and by reframing conventional understandings NBS, space, adaptation. Three examined in Istanbul demonstrate how the grassroots-supported NBS must navigate complex land ownership arrangements, justice, opposing development priorities socio-spatial reconfigurations spurred local...

What rhetorical strategies are populist far-right parties using to delay regional decarbonization? This paper focuses on three parties—the Conservative People's Party of Estonia (EKRE), Alternative for Germany (AfD), and Poland's Law Justice (PiS)—and the discursive-institutional tactics each used from 2014 2021 decarbonization their carbon-intensive regions. We identify by actors decarbonization: (1) politicizing decarbonization, (2) reframing cultural values form alliances with...

ABSTRACT Cities striving to adapt the impacts of climate change must recognize significant variability in flood vulnerability across different communities. By examining interplay between physical and socio‐demographic factors, this paper provides a comprehensive overview multidimensional aspects exposure Istanbul's Pendik District. The District, situated within Istanbul Metropolitan Area, was chosen for study as it regularly faces floods exacerbated by change. Utilizing mixed‐methodology...

For millennia, cities have invested in inter- and intra-regional infrastructure to transfer water from neighboring sources. This study analyzed how climate change can affect the balance of supply demand megacity Istanbul, Turkey over next 100 years. The Water Evaluation Planning (WEAP) method was used examine three long-term scenarios for availability based on differences supply: 1) a continuation current sources; 2) expansion resources construction additional infrastructure; 3) reduction...

Although climate policy diffusion is widely studied, we know comparatively little about how these global policies and the norms that surround them are used by various political actors seeking to advance their own agendas. In this article, focus on diffused differently at national local scales repoliticize or depoliticize change. We case of Turkey, which carries stark contrast showing willingness achieve goals in international arena but less so domestic politics actions. The article employs a...

Studies that focus on different urban governance structures, especially unitary states and semi-authoritarian regimes, are still lacking in the climate literature. This research aims to explain how change is governed under a state structure, particularly focusing incorporates higher-level government policy external stakeholders set agenda actions. Four main themes framed from literature, including setting, divergence between existing policies agendas, entrepreneurs' roles, civil society...

Abstract Green-Win is the proposal where that government, society, and business can all reap benefits while at same time playing a vital role in transition to sustainable development lower carbon futures. We argue that, proposition central many state expert models of sustainability transitions, as construction, it belies more complex trade-offs cognitive societal transitions. Cultural are representations shared by community which provide both world, aid interpreting what how works, possible...

Responsive land-use policy amid climate change in urban settings includes infrastructure transformation and necessitates recognizing community- individual-level vulnerabilities as well climate-driven injustices, which are isolated the existing literature. This paper highlights how policies set nine cities of Turkey identify vulnerable groups individuals, develop to address identified justice concerns. Employing content analysis expert interviews, we find critical relationships between...

Extreme heat events are happening more frequently and with greater severity, causing significant negative consequences, especially for vulnerable urban populations around the globe. Heat stress is even common in cities dense irregular planning lacking blue-green infrastructures. This study investigates greening cooling effects of five selected transformation projects their surrounding areas (within a 10-min walking distance) Istanbul from 2013 to 2021, focus on environmental justice climate...

Environmental policy research fails to integrate procedural and recognitional justice perspectives collective actions in governance learning for just climate adaptations. Drawing on the insights of two cities experiencing impacts differently, Bergen (Norway) Istanbul (Turkey), this paper assesses how influence different levels governments (local national) learn from these implement their localities. Using environmental (specifically recognition procedural) literature, we contextualize a...

Systemic sustainability transitions are manifested as the needed scope to meet challenges at local and global scales. While ubiquitous, each transition is nested in a specific spatial context. Especially, due accelerating urbanization, cities increasingly important agents, but they also understudied geographical loci of change. Urban interesting because operate both national scales, concentrating people, wealth, resources. They have regime niche elements, act an incubation space for novel...

Abstract Research on norm domestication in multi‐level governance structures is overlooked urban climate and policy literature. This paper conceptualizes multi‐scalar interactions of for local actions. The city Phoenix, which operates under the “purple” (blue cities red legislatures) state Arizona, analyzed to illustrate how a government can take up actions left void at federal levels. empirical findings reveal important temporal politics level that influenced government's domestication....

Research on environmental behaviour is often overlooked in literature regime destabilization energy transitions. This study addresses that gap by focusing socio-political and demographic factors shaping support for carbon policies one of the most carbon-intensive regions Europe. Carbon-intensive industries, especially coal mining coal-based power generation, are concentrated a few regions. Therefore, decarbonization actions will affect those particularly strongly. Correspondingly, exert...

Populism is multilayered and involves two main dimensions – ideology strategy which are employed within beyond political parties. These can result in sometimes overlapping but generally divergent backlashes, targeting specific climate sustainability interventions cities. This critical commentary presents episodic populist backlashes against urban actions by exploring how they create their own landscapes across the spectrum cities progressive agendas. Specifically, article examines manifest...

Despite the growing literature on risk assessments of urban communities to changing climate, remote sensing and GIS-based analyses encompassing multi-scalar aspects green infrastructures their disproportionate impacts living in same districts are still not widely explored comparatively. This study investigates greening cooling effects five selected transformation projects surrounding areas Istanbul from 2013 2021. By employing temporal analysis Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)...