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 2020 using three ‘ADAptation plan Quality Assessment’ indices, called...

Das vorliegende UFZ-Diskussionspapier ist die Dokumentation des Workshops Schrumpfung und Urban Sprawl, der am 3. November 2003 am UFZ stattfand. Es führt damit eine Diskussions- und Forschungslinie fort, die in den 1990er Jahren durch Forscher und Praktiker aus unterschiedlichen Einrichtungen...

Cities are widely recognised as being pivotal to fight climate change. They magnify the drivers of climate change, experience the impacts and also concentrate the highest room for action. Although urban areas are broadly claimed to be climate leaders, there is no archetype of right actions...

Cities are widely recognised as being pivotal to fight climate change. Cities magnify the drivers of climate change, experience the impacts and also concentrate the highest room for action. Given the 70% of the global emissions that cities are responsible for, national governments are unable to...

Das vorliegende UFZ-Diskussionspapier ist die Dokumentation des Workshops Schrumpfung und Urban Sprawl, der am 3. November 2003 am UFZ stattfand. Es führt damit eine Diskussions- und Forschungslinie fort, die in den 1990er Jahren durch Forscher und Praktiker aus unterschiedlichen Einrichtungen...

Cities increasingly address climate change, e.g. by pledging city-level emission reduction targets. This is puzzling for the provision of a global public good: what are city governments' reasons for doing so, and do pledges actually translate into emission reductions? Empirical studies have...

The paper considersan industry where the effects of pollution can be off-set by investing in adaption as a private good. The focus is not on external effects, but on economies of scale that are introducted when the costs of adapting to pollution are independent from the quantity produced. The...