Cities in the global climate marketplace: transnational actors and urban climate adaptation planning in India

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2016
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In cities across the global South that are pursuing climate change adaptation actions, transnational and multilateral actors are critical catalysts for financing programs, generating public awareness, and legitimizing the agenda (Andonova, Betsill, and Bulkeley 2009; Anguelovski and Carmin 2011; Bulkeley et al. 2012). Transnational aid and philanthropic institutions such as the Rockefeller Foundation, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the U.K. Department for International Development (DFID), the United National Development Programme (UNDP), and others have strongly advocated for programs that integrate and support both climate change adaptation and urban socioeconomic and spatial development (Bicknell, Dodman, and Satterthwaite 2009; Halsnæs and Trærup 2009; Huq and Reid 2004), arguing that combining these two objectives will help ensure the long-term resilience of cities (Carmin, Dodman, and Chu 2013). However, scholars of urban adaptation and transnational urban governance have yet to understand whether such external interventions have long-lasting effects on the sustainability, institutionalization, and justice of urban climate adaptation programs (Bulkeley, Edwards, and Fuller 2014; Chu, Anguelovski, and Carmin 2015; Chu 2015).
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Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south
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