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      A policy content analysis for evaluating urban adaptation justice in İstanbul 

      Williams, D.S.; Balaban, O.; Ilhan, A.; Paker, H.; Şahin, Ü.; Yıldırım, B.S; Turhan, E.; Uncu, B.A.; Olazabal, M. (Environmental Science and Policy, 2022-10-01)
      Climate change is disproportionately affecting vulnerable communities, increasing existing risks and leading to further global inequalities. Drawing on the concept of urban adaptation justice, we evaluated the inclusion ...
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      Adaptation to climate change in cities of Mediterranean Europe 

      Pietrapertosa, F.; Olazabal, M.; Simoes, S.G.; Salvia, M.; Fokaides, P.A.; Ioannou, B.I.; Viguié, V.; Spyridaki, N.A.; De Gregorio Hurtado, S.; Geneletti, D.; Heidrich, O.; Tardieu, L.; Feliu, E.; Rižnar, K.; Matosović, M.; Balzan, M.V.; Flamos, A.; Šel, N.B.; Reckien, D. (Cities, 2023-09-01)
      Cities across Mediterranean Europe face common climatic threats. They are highly vulnerable and very likely to suffer losses and damages due to heat waves, droughts, wildfires, landslides, and extreme coastal events. To ...
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      Are local climate adaptation policies credible? A conceptual and operational assessment framework 

      Olazabal, M.; Galarraga, I.; Ford, J.; Sainz, De, Murieta, E.; Lesnikowski, A. (Taylor and Francis, 2019)
      After the Paris Agreement that put stronger emphasis on the development of climate change adaptation policies and on the definition of financing mechanisms, there is a patent need to track whether actual planning efforts ...
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      Climate adaptation indicators and metrics: State of local policy practice 

      Goonesekera, S.M.; Olazabal, M. (Ecological Indicators, 2022)
      Recent systematic reviews show that, overall, and across governance levels and sectors, climate change adaptation monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems are rarely programmed and implemented. As a result, there is a ...
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      Dedicated versus mainstreaming approaches in local climate plans in Europe 

      Reckien, D.; Salvia, M.; Pietrapertosa, F.; Simoes, S.G.; Olazabal, M.; De, Gregorio, Hurtado, S.; Geneletti, D.; Krko?ka, Lorencová, E.; D'Alonzo, V.; Krook-Riekkola, A.; Fokaides, P.A.; Ioannou, B.I.; Foley, A.; Orru, H.; Orru, K.; Wejs, A.; Flacke, J.; Church, J.M.; Feliu, E.; Vasilie, S.; Nador, C.; Matosovic, M.; Flamos, A.; Spyridaki, N.-A.; Balzan, M.V.; Fülöp, O.; Grafakos, S.; Paspaldzhiev, I.; Heidrich, O. (Elsevier, 2019)
      Cities are gaining prominence committing to respond to the threat of climate change, e.g., by developing local climate plans or strategies. However, little is known regarding the approaches and processes of plan development ...
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      Disrupting the imaginaries of urban action to deliver just adaptation 

      Castán Broto, V.; Olazabal, M.; Ziervogel, G. (Buildings and Cities, 2024-01-01)
      Urban adaptation relates to how people imagine plausible and desirable urban futures. Adaptation imaginaries refer to collective representations of how society should act and towards which goal in the context of unprecedented ...
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      Emergence of new knowledge for climate change adaptation 

      Olazabal, M.; Chiabai, A.; Foudi, S.; Neumann, M.B. (Elsevier, 2018)
      Decision-making for climate change adaptation requires an integrated and cross-sectoral approach to adequately capture the complexity of interconnected systems. More meaningful decisions can be taken in an arena where ...
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      ¿Están las ciudades españolas adaptándose al cambio climático? 

      Sainz de Murieta, E.; Olazabal, M.; Sanz, E. (Papeles De Economía Española, 2020-06-30)
      After the Paris Agreement and the incorporation of national commitments in adaptation, the measurement of progress in adaptation has become an important part of the international climate policy agenda. Monitoring the ...
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      European patterns of local adaptation planning—a regional analysis 

      Buzási, a.; Simoes, S.G.; Salvia, M.; Eckersley, P.; Geneletti, D.; Pietrapertosa, F.; Olazabal, M.; Wejs, A.; De Gregorio Hurtado, S.; Spyridaki, N.A.; Szalmáné Csete, M.; Torres, E.F.; Rižnar, K.; Heidrich, O.; Grafakos, S.; Reckien, D. (Regional Environmental Change, 2024-06-01)
      While European regions face a range of different climate hazards, little is known about how these differences affect local climate adaptation planning. We present an analytical framework for evaluating local climate ...
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      Global mapping of urban nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation 

      Goodwin, S.; Olazabal, M.; Castro, A.J.; Pascual, P. (Nature Sustainability, 2023)
      Many cities around the world are experimenting with nature-based solutions (NbS) to address the interconnected climate-, biodiversity- and society-related challenges they are facing (referred to as the climate–biodiversi ...
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      Guiding cities under increased droughts: The limits to sustainable urban futures 

      Cremades, R.; Sanchez-Plaza, A.; Hewitt, R. J.; Mitter, H.; Baggio, J. A.; Olazabal, M.; Broekman, A.; Kropf, B.; Tudose, N. C. (Ecological Economics, 2021-11-01)
      Climate change is likely to increase droughts. The vulnerability of cities to droughts is increasing worldwide. Policy responses from cities to droughts lack consideration of long-term climatic and socio-economic scenarios, ...
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      How are cities planning to respond to climate change? Assessment of local climate plans from 885 cities in the EU-28 

      Reckien, D.; Salvia, M.; Heidrich, O.; Church, J.M.; Pietrapertosa, F.; De, Gregorio-Hurtado, S.; D'Alonzo, V.; Foley, A.; Simoes, S.G.; Krko?ka, Lorencová, E.; Orru, H.; Orru, K.; Wejs, A.; Flacke, J.; Olazabal, M.; Geneletti, D.; Feliu, E.; Vasilie, S.; Nador, C.; Krook-Riekkola, A.; Matosovic, M.; Fokaides, P.A.; Ioannou, B.I.; Flamos, A.; Spyridaki, N.-A.; Balzan, M.V.; Fülöp, O.; Paspaldzhiev, I.; Grafakos, S.; Dawson, R. (Elsevier, 2018)
      The Paris Agreement aims to limit global mean temperature rise this century to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels. This target has wide-ranging implications for Europe and its cities, which are the source of ...
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      How well do climate adaptation policies align with risk-based approaches? An assessment framework for cities 

      Sainz de Murieta Zugadi, Elisa; Galarraga, I.; Olazabal, M. (CITIES, 2021)
      Many cities around the world are undertaking adaptation planning processes in contexts of considerable uncertainty due to climate risks. However, new evidence suggests that current adaptation policies are failing to fully ...
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      Institutionalisation of urban climate adaptation: three municipal experiences in Spain 

      Olazabal, M.; Broto, V.C. (Buildings and Cities, 2022)
      Comparative studies of urban adaptation have evaluated the progress, means and scope of adaptation planning. Practice on the ground shows that the local politics of climate adaptation advance through various strategies to ...
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      Integrating science and the arts to deglobalise climate change adaptation 

      Olazabal, M.; Loroño-Leturiondo, M.; Amorim-Maia, A.T.; Lewis, L.; Urrutia, J. (Nature Communications, 2024-12-12)
      Setting goals that are context-specific, relevant, and collectively shared is critical in adaptation. As necessary elements in target setting, imaginaries for adaptation and the language connected to them remain vague. ...
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      Is Connectivity a Desirable Property in Urban Resilience Assessments? 

      Olazabal, M.; Chelleri, L.; Sharifi, A. (Lecture Notes in Energy, 2018)
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      ¿Para qué impactos climáticos se preparan las ciudades españolas? 

      Olazabal, M.; de Gopegui, M.R. (Ekonomiaz: Revista Vasca De Economía, 2020)
      Cities play an important role in identifying climate impacts on population, urbanization and infrastructure, and in making decisions regarding how, how much and when we should adapt. We present here an analysis of the ...
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      Quality of urban climate adaptation plans over time 

      Reckien, D; Buzasi, A.; Olazabal, M.; Spyridaki, N.A.; Eckersley, P.; Simoes, S.G.; Salvia, M.; Pietrapertosa, F.; Fokaides, P.; Goonesekera, S.M.; Tardieu, L.; Balzan, M.V.; de Boer, C.L.; De Gregorio Hurtado, S.; Feliu, E.; Flamos, A.; Foley, A.; Geneletti, D.; Grafakos, S.; Heidrich, O.; Ioannou, B.; Krook-Riekkola, A.; Matosovic, M.; Orru, K.; Paspaldzhiev, I.; Rižnar, K.; Smigaj, M.; Szalmáné Csete, M.; Viguié, V.; Wejs, A. (npj Urban Sustainability, 2023-12-01)
      Defining and measuring progress in adaptation are important questions for climate adaptation science, policy, and practice. Here, we assess the progress of urban adaptation planning in 327 European cities between 2005 and ...
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      Socio-economic projections in urban climate change adaptation planning: Practices and prospects for just adaptation 

      Prall, M.; Olazabal, M.; Lehmann, M. (Habitat International, 2023)
      Urban climate change adaptation efforts have often been criticized for exacerbating the inequitable impacts of climate change by failing to address the social, economic, and environmental impacts of adaptation. There is ...
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      Subaltern forms of knowledge are required to boost local adaptation 

      Olazabal, M.; Chu, E.; Castán Broto, V.; Patterson, J. (One Earth, 2021-06-18)
      Evidence shows that current adaptation planning approaches are not always successful in generating actionable knowledge to guide implementation on the ground. There remains a persistent disconnect between the production ...