ABSTRACT

From the social uprisings in Santiago de Chile to the radical municipalism experiments in Naples, this volume takes the reader on an intellectual journey at the frontlines across global South and global North where climate breakdown meets social innovations. While the effects of the climate crisis are becoming more extreme and tangible across the globe with every passing day, urban social movements and their radical strategies to resist climate injustice often remain concealed from sight. Contributors to this volume ask how would it be to look at the politics of urban loss-and-damage not from the highly securitized zones of climate summits, but from favelas in Rio de Janeiro, flood-prone communities in São Paulo, urban gardens in Naples, or neighborhoods resisting climate gentrification in New York City? This book explores diverse worlds and praxis of urban social movements resisting the rising tides of climate crisis and social injustice.

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chapter 3|20 pages

Struggles for democratic decarbonization

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Lessons from New York City
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chapter 4|32 pages

Disobey, block, organize

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The politics and strategies of grassroots climate activism in Malmö and Sweden
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chapter 5|18 pages

Catalyzing transformational action for climate change adaptation

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The Ala Wai management plan in Honolulu, Hawai‘i, USA
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chapter 7|18 pages

Narratives on Babylon Hill

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Exploring the making of a community and its urban forest through oral and environmental history (1985–2015)
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chapter 8|22 pages

Repositioning marginal spaces in climate adaptation

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Periphery, power and possibility
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chapter 10|22 pages

Small towns facing big problems

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Sustainable development, social choice and the challenge of local-level organizing for the environment: Insights from Flagler Beach, Florida, USA
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chapter 11|26 pages

Practices of resilience

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Questioning urban adaptation in the Chilean social upsurge
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chapter 12|30 pages

A user manual for just cities?

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