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Global climate change creates new challenges in particular for cities and regions. As centres of human activity they are especially vulnerable to climate change impacts. Adapting to a changing climate requires dealing with multiple uncertainties and complexity in order to allow proactive action. Therefore, cities and regions around the globe face the challenge of exploring flexible and innovative forms of governance which have to address specific local or regional vulnerabilities and build capacity to accommodate future change. This raises questions about the roles of stakeholders, the involvement of citizens, the composition and use of formal and informal instruments as well as the implementation of different forms of organization and regulation at the local and regional level. This book provides case studies from cities and regions all around the world. It analyses climate change adaptation from a perspective of organizing, administering and implementing local and regional adaptation strategies and measures. It looks into actors, actor-constellations, institutions and networks of climate adaptation. And, it provides the reader with knowledge about good practices and experiences to be transferred for solving adaptation challenges in cities and regions around the globe

For metropolitan regions on the national and even more on the international level there is a specific context of competition, especially in terms of economic development but also referring to quality of life. At the same time, metropolitan regions are in the need to cooperate with each other: - synergies: neighbouring metropolitan regions are looking for synergies through networking, e. g. reaching a higher level of public infrastructure by specialisation or concentration, - problem-solving: exchange between metropolitan regions is supposed to lead to higher standards of problem-solving , e.g. in traffic, public administration or suburbanisation. - lobbying: together metropolitan regions can try to create a political lobby in order to gain support for their specific aims on the national or European level. But on the way to a successful "competitive cooperation" between metropolitan regions specific restrictions remain, which have to be overcome: - policy dimension: each metropolitan region has its own political agenda with topics of different importance. Cooperation has to identify interests of importance for all cooperants involved. - politics dimension: actors can vary because of different political majorities, these majorities can change during a cooperation process, or there are different regional cultures influencing the cooperation, - polity dimension: metropolitan regions show various forms of institutional organisation, some are organised in a more formal way, others more or less informally. Consequently, there are, e. g. different competences of the regional bodies. The paper to be presented describes the chances and restrictions of cooperation between metropolitan regions in a combination of a theoretical and an empirical approach. The Berlin - Hamburg metropolitan cooperation is presented as a case study. In addition, experiences of the German metropolitan regions' network are integrated: - The Berlin-Hamburg metropolitan cooperation formally started in May 2001, dealing with a wide range of subjects. In December 2001 a status report was launched (see enclosure). - The German metropolitan regions' network is financed by the Ministry of Spatial Planning. It has been working since July 2001. Its agenda includes identifying specific positions of German metropolitan regions in the context of national and European (ESDP-) policy.

Langsam aber sicher erkennen wir, dass sich die bisherigen Entwicklungsmodelle überlebt haben und schnell neue Wege der Nachhaltigkeit gefunden werden müssen – auch und gerade in der Stadtplanung und Regionalentwicklung, beim Umgang mit Raum und vor allem mit Menschen und deren Institutionen. Erderwärmung, Artensterben, Wachstumspeak, Energiekrisen, globale Migration, Ungleichheit und Ungerechtigkeit sind Symptome eines Planungs- und Entwicklungsmodells, das dringend einer grundlegenden Reform bedarf. In diesem Band setzen sich zwanzig junge Forscherinnen und Forscher mit ihren eigenen Perspektiven und den Chancen nachhaltiger Raumentwicklung auseinander. Sie stützen sich dabei auf die große Tradition einer demokratischen Stadt- und Regionalplanung sowie Raumentwicklung, die von den Idealen und Werten der Emanzipation, Regeneration, Resilienz und Suffizienz geleitet ist.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Cities in crisis: setting the scene for reflecting urban and regional futures in times of austerity -- PART I Cities in crisis: theoretical framework -- 2 The economic and financial crisis: origins and consequences -- 3 Socio-political and socio-spatial implications of the economic crisis and austerity politics in Southern European cities -- 4 Crisis and urban change: reflections, strategies, and approaches -- PART II Origins of the crisis and its socio-spatial impacts on Southern European cities -- 5 The neoliberal model of the city in Southern Europe: a comparative approach to Valencia and Madrid -- 6 Governance and local government in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area: the effects of the crisis on the reorganisation of municipal services and support for people -- 7 Athens, a capital in crisis: tracing the socio-spatial impacts -- 8 A new landscape of urban social movements: reflections on urban unrest in Southern European cities -- PART III Urban planning and the economic crisis in Southern European cities -- 9 Urban planning and territorial management in Portugal: antecedents and impacts of the 2008 financial and economic crisis -- 10 Greek cities in crisis: context, evidence, response -- 11 Crisis and urban shrinkage from an Italian perspective -- PART IV Crisis as driver of change? -- 12 Potentials and restrictions on the changing dynamics of the political spaces in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area -- 13 Rethinking Barcelona: changes experienced as a result of social and economic crisis -- 14 From crisis to crisis: dynamics of change and emerging models of governance in the Turin Metropolitan Area -- 15 Urban rescaling: a post-crisis scenario for a Spanish city: Valencia and its megaregion.

Die Folgen des Klimawandels sind unübersehbar: Hochwasser an Flüssen nach plötzlichen Starkregen, Niedrigwasser in Folge von Trockenperioden, Hitzeinseln in Städten bei anhaltend hohen Temperaturen oder Gebäudeschäden durch Hagel oder Stürme. Die Aufzählung ließe sich fortführen. Allen Beispielen ist gemein, dass sie das Leben der Menschen beeinflussen und zum Teil mit enormen Schäden verbunden sind. Doch unabhängig davon, ob Wetterextreme plötzlich auftreten oder sich Klimafaktoren langsam verändern, lautet die Frage: Wie können wir unsere Städte und Regionen auf die sich wandelnden Rahmenbedingungen vorbereiten?