ABSTRACT
This chapter concentrates on the most pressing environmental threats facing cities embody and produce spatially uneven forms of vulnerability. The impact of metropolitan vulnerability have on the ethical constitution and empathies of urban communities. The chapter offers some provisional observations about the nature of urban environmental vulnerability. It considers the construction of a particularly local sense of urban vulnerability within the Transition Culture movement. The chapter also considers the more embodied and distantiated forms of vulnerability that gets expressed in the Camp for Climate Action. It explores the potential for a convergent politics of urban environmental vulnerability that lies somewhere in between localism and internationalism. The chapter provides the different modalities of urban-environmental vulnerability as the momentary opportunity for a range of more or less radical, more or less conservative, and more or less progressive political mobilizations around the metropolitan future. It examines how vulnerability is being mobilized by different urban movements in the UK today.
