Extreme Climate Events as Opportunities for Radical Open Citizenship

Beatrice John; Sacha Kagan

Extreme Climate Events as Opportunities for Radical Open Citizenship

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Abstract

Droughts, floods and other natural catastrophes related to climate change belong to a class of global risks that have downstream effects on the economy and productivity of settlements, social cohesion and administrational institutions. This represents growing challenges for adaptation strategies and
disaster management. In order to increase the overall resilience of socio-ecological systems, civil society will be compelled to draw from its self-organisation rather than relying on increasingly unstable established structures. Based on the exploration of 20th century concepts such as “horizontalidad” and “right to the city”, this article explores characteristics of resilience that offer possible responses for civil society.

Translated title of the contribution	Extreme Climate Events as Opportunities for Radical Open Citizenship
Original language	English
Journal	Open Citizenship
Volume	5
Issue number	1
Pages (from-to)	60-75
Number of pages	16
ISSN	2191-5695
Publication status	Published - 2014

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
SDG 13 Climate Action

Research areas and keywords

Sustainability Science
Climate change
sustainability transformation
resilience
Politics
self-organisation
horizontalism
democracy
anarchism
Sociology
right to the city
urban social movements

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Extreme Climate Events as Opportunities for Radical Open Citizenship

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