Institutionalising mechanisms for building urban climate resilience: experiences from India

Anup Karanth and Diane Archer

Development in Practice, 2014, vol. 24, issue 4, 514-526

Abstract: This paper examines how mainstreaming of urban climate change resilience – a crucial consideration in an increasingly urbanised world – is occurring at both the city and national scale, using the case of an internationally-funded resilience-building initiative in India. Surat city's newly-established Climate Change Trust illustrates the importance of an institutionalised mechanism for coordinating and sustaining climate initiatives. Concurrently, climate resilience is being mainstreamed into the national urban development agenda, through a network of Indian institutions. These two nascent mechanisms offer avenues for local city-level experiences to inform national directives, driving and sustaining the urban climate adaptation agenda across India.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2014.911246

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