Low Carbon Action in Ordinary Cities

Motivations and Intended Outcomes in Local Governments' Declarations of Climate Emergency

Author(s): Xira Ruiz-Campillo, Vanesa Castán Broto, Linda Westman
Published in: Politics and Governance, Issue 9/2, 2021, Page(s) 17-28, ISSN 2183-2463
Publisher: Cogitatio Press
DOI: 10.17645/pag.v9i2.3755

The case for a climate bonus: waste pickers’ perceptions of climate change in Minas Gerais

Author(s): Sonia Maria Dias, Vanesa Castán Broto, Breno Cypriano, Ana Carolina Ogando, Juliana Gonçalves
Published in: Environment and Urbanization, Issue 36, 2024, Page(s) 93-111, ISSN 0956-2478
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/09562478241230813

For an Urban Politics of Looking Elsewhere: Climate Action in Rapidly Growing Chinese Cities

Author(s): Vanesa Castán Broto, Linda Westman, Ping Huang
Published in: Journal of Planning Literature, Issue 38, 2024, Page(s) 380-394, ISSN 0885-4122
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/08854122231154495

A framework to centre justice in energy transition innovations

Author(s): Patricia Romero-Lankao, Nicole Rosner, Christof Brandtner, Christopher Rea, Adolfo Mejia-Montero, Francesca Pilo, Fedor Dokshin, Vanesa Castan-Broto, Sarah Burch, Scott Schnur
Published in: Nature Energy, Issue 8, 2023, Page(s) 1192-1198, ISSN 2058-7546
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1038/s41560-023-01351-3

Finding feasible action towards urban transformations

Author(s): James Patterson, Niko Soininen, Marcus Collier, Christopher M. Raymond
Published in: npj Urban Sustainability, Issue 1/1, 2021, ISSN 2661-8001
Publisher: npj Urban Sustainability
DOI: 10.1038/s42949-021-00029-7

Editorial: Is There a New Climate Politics?

Author(s): Anna R. Davies, Vanesa Castán Broto, Stephan Hügel
Published in: Politics and Governance, Issue 9/2, 2021, Page(s) 1-7, ISSN 2183-2463
Publisher: Cogitatio Press
DOI: 10.17645/pag.v9i2.4341

China's imaginary of ecological civilization: A resonance between the state-led discourse and sociocultural dynamics

Author(s): Ping Huang, Linda Westman
Published in: Energy Research & Social Science, Issue 81, 2021, Page(s) 102253, ISSN 2214-6296
Publisher: Elsevier Limited
DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2021.102253

Harnessing social innovation for a just transition: A case study of tea industrialization in China's era of ecological civilization

Author(s): Ping Huang, Vanesa Castán Broto, Linda Westman
Published in: Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, Issue 53, 2024, Page(s) 100917, ISSN 2210-4224
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2024.100917

A ‘correlative’ turn for transition studies on China

Author(s): Ping Huang, Linda Westman, Vanesa Castán Broto
Published in: Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 2022, Page(s) 99-101, ISSN 2210-4224
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2021.09.017

Ten years after Copenhagen: Reimagining climate change governance in urban areas

Author(s): Vanesa Castán Broto, Linda K. Westman
Published in: WIREs Climate Change, Issue 11/4, 2020, ISSN 1757-7780
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/wcc.643

The Homogenization of Urban Climate Action Discourses

Author(s): Linda Westman, Vanesa Castán Broto, Ping Huang
Published in: Global Environmental Politics, Issue 23, 2023, Page(s) 102-124, ISSN 1526-3800
Publisher: MIT Press
DOI: 10.1162/glep_a_00697

Integration of urban science and urban climate adaptation research: opportunities to advance climate action

Author(s): José Lobo, Rimjhim M. Aggarwal, Marina Alberti, Melissa Allen-Dumas, Luís M. A. Bettencourt, Christopher Boone, Christa Brelsford, Vanesa Castán Broto, Hallie Eakin, Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen, Sara Meerow, Celine D’Cruz, Aromar Revi, Debra C. Roberts, Michael E. Smith, Abigail York, Tao Lin, Xuemei Bai, William Solecki, Diane Pataki, Luís Bojorquez Tapia, Marcy Rockman, Marc Wolfram, Peter Schlo
Published in: npj Urban Sustainability, Issue 3, 2023, ISSN 2661-8001
Publisher: PubMed
DOI: 10.1038/s42949-023-00113-0

IN PRODUCTION: Life bio-graphics: a design-based exploratory research for methodological innovation in urban climate governance research

Author(s): Erika Conchis, Linda Westman, Vanesa Castán Broto
Published in: Environment and Planning F, 2025, ISSN 2634-9825
Publisher: Sage

Compound urban crises

Author(s): Linda Westman, James Patterson, Rachel Macrorie, Christopher J. Orr, Catherine M. Ashcraft, Vanesa Castán Broto, Dana Dolan, Mukesh Gupta, Jeroen van der Heijden, Thomas Hickmann, Robert Hobbins, Marielle Papin, Enora Robin, Christina Rosan, Jonas Torrens & Robert Webb
Published in: Ambio, Issue 2022, 2022, ISSN 0044-7447
Publisher: Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien/Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1007/s13280-021-01697-6

Emerging dynamics of public participation in climate governance: A case study of solar energy application in Shenzhen, China

Author(s): Ping Huang, Vanesa Castán Broto, Linda Katrin Westman
Published in: Environmental Policy and Governance, 2020, ISSN 1756-932X
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/eet.1886

Urban health challenges: Lessons from COVID-19 responses

Author(s): Hanna A. Ruszczyk, Vanesa Castán Broto, Colin McFarlane
Published in: Geoforum, Issue 131, 2022, Page(s) 105-115, ISSN 0016-7185
Publisher: Pergamon Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.03.003

Reparative innovation for urban climate adaptation

Author(s): Vanesa Cast�n Broto, Linda Westman, Ping Huang
Published in: Journal of the British Academy, Issue 9s9, 2021, Page(s) 205-218, ISSN 2052-7217
Publisher: Journal of the British Academy
DOI: 10.5871/jba/009s9.205

Building inclusive cities for a sustainable future

Author(s): Emily Ghosh, Richard Friend, Kathryn Freeman Anderson, Vanesa Castán Broto, Janene Tuniz, Sanna Markkanen, Laura Vaughan, Maria Rusca
Published in: One Earth, Issue 4, 2022, Page(s) 161-164, ISSN 2590-3322
Publisher: ScienceDirect
DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2021.01.016

Urban Transformations to Keep All the Same: The Power of Ivy Discourses

Author(s): Linda Westman,Vanesa Castán Broto
Published in: Antipode, 2022, ISSN 0066-4812
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/anti.12820

Disrupting the imaginaries of urban action to deliver just adaptation

Author(s): Vanesa Castán Broto, Marta Olazabal, Gina Ziervogel
Published in: Buildings and Cities, Issue 5, 2024, Page(s) 199-214, ISSN 2632-6655
Publisher: Ubiquity Press
DOI: 10.5334/bc.456

Radical unknowability: an essay on solidarities and multiform urban life

Author(s): AbdouMaliq Simone, Vanesa Castán Broto
Published in: City, Issue 26, 2022, Page(s) 771-790, ISSN 1470-3629
Publisher: Oxfordshire Publishers
DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2124693

A culture‐led approach to understanding energy transitions in China: The correlative epistemology

Author(s): Ping Huang, Linda Westman, Vanesa Castán Broto
Published in: Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 2021, ISSN 0020-2754
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/tran.12453

Advancing urban transitions and transformations research

Author(s): Jonas Torrens, Linda Westman, Marc Wolfram, Vanessa Castán Broto, Jake Barnes, Markus Egermann, Franziska Ehnert, Niki Frantzeskaki, Chiara Farné Fratini, Irene Håkansson, Katharina Hölscher, Ping Huang, Rob Raven, Antonia Sattlegger, Kaisa Schmidt-Thomé, Emilia Smeds, Nina Vogel, Josefin Wangel, Timo von Wirth
Published in: Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, Issue 41, 2022, Page(s) 102-105, ISSN 2210-4224
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2021.10.026

Ten new insights in climate science 2020 – a horizon scan

Author(s): Erik Pihl, Eva Alfredsson, Magnus Bengtsson, Kathryn J. Bowen, Vanesa Cástan Broto, Kuei Tien Chou, Helen Cleugh, Kristie Ebi, Clea M. Edwards, Eleanor Fisher, Pierre Friedlingstein, Alex Godoy-Faúndez, Mukesh Gupta, Alexandra R. Harrington, Katie Hayes, Bronwyn M. Hayward, Sophie R. Hebden, Thomas Hickmann, Gustaf Hugelius, Tatiana Ilyina, Robert B. Jackson, Trevor F. Keenan, Ria A. Lambino, Se
Published in: Global Sustainability, Issue 4, 2021, ISSN 2059-4798
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/sus.2021.2

Subaltern forms of knowledge are required to boost local adaptation

Author(s): Marta Olazabal, Eric Chu, Vanesa Castán Broto, James Patterson
Published in: One Earth, Issue 4/6, 2021, Page(s) 828-838, ISSN 2590-3322
Publisher: Elsevier Inc.
DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2021.05.006

Institutionalisation of urban climate adaptation: three municipal experiences in Spain

Author(s): Marta Olazabal, Vanesa Castán Broto
Published in: Building and Cities, 2022, ISSN 2632-6655
Publisher: Ubiquity Press
DOI: 10.5334/bc.208

Spatiotemporal perspectives on urban energy transitions: a comparative study of three cities in China

Author(s): Vanesa Castán Broto, Daphne Mah, Fangzhu Zhang, Ping Huang, Kevin Lo, Linda Westman
Published in: Urban Transformations, Issue 2/1, 2020, ISSN 2524-8162
Publisher: Biomed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s42854-020-00015-9

When cities broke into the global stage: 20 years since the publication of ‘Cities and Climate Change’

Author(s): Vanesa Castán Broto, Simon Marvin
Published in: Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 2024, ISSN 2399-6544
Publisher: SAGE
DOI: 10.1177/23996544241296741

How hegemonic discourses of sustainability influence urban climate action

Author(s): Vanesa Castán Broto, Linda Westman, Ping Huang
Published in: Buildings and Cities, Issue 4, 2023, Page(s) 973-989, ISSN 2632-6655
Publisher: Ubiquity Press
DOI: 10.5334/bc.390

Splintering Urbanism and Climate Breakdown

Author(s): Vanesa Castán Broto
Published in: JOURNAL OF URBAN TECHNOLOGY, 2022, ISSN 1063-0732
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/10630732.2021.2001717

Examining Climate Justice in Urban Public Space Adaptation: A Thematic Synthesis of the Literature

Author(s): María Ruiz de Gopegui Aramburu, Marta Olazabal, Vanesa Castán Broto
Published in: Journal of City Climate Policy and Economy, Issue 2, 2024, Page(s) 271-315, ISSN 2816-7414
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
DOI: 10.3138/jccpe-2022-2015

Climate change politics and the urban contexts of messy governmentalities

Author(s): Vanesa Castán Broto
Published in: Territory, Politics, Governance, Issue 8/2, 2020, Page(s) 241-258, ISSN 2162-2671
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
DOI: 10.1080/21622671.2019.1632220

Cities, Settlements and Key Infrastructure

Author(s): Vanesa Castán Broto, Linda Westman, et al. Full list of contributors: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_WGII_Annex-IV.pdf
Published in: Climate Change 2022 – Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, 2024, Page(s) 907-1040
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/9781009325844.008

Special Issue:Urban adaptation: disrupting imaginaries and practices

Author(s): Guest editor: Vanesa Castán Broto (University of Sheffield) Marta Olazabal (Basque Centre for Climate Change) Gina Ziervogel (University of Cape Town)
Published in: Urban adaptation: disrupting imaginaries and practices, 2024
Publisher: Buildings * Cities

UN-Habitat World Cities Report 2024

Author(s): Edlam Yemeru (Chief of Branch); Ben Arimah (Chief of Unit and Task Manager); Raymond Otieno Otieno; Matthijs van Oostrum; Mary Mutinda; Judith Oginga-Martins; David Dodman; Vanesa Castán Broto; Godwin Arku; Hayley Leck; David Simon; Ines Mari Rivero; Laura Nascimento Jungman; Lucy Oates; Luna Khirfan; Martino Pesaresi; Michele Melchiorri; Firdaous Oussidhoum; Pablo Sebastián Mariani; Pietro Flor
Published in: 2024, ISBN 978-92-1-132955-1
Publisher: UN-HABITAT

COP26 & Beyond: What role for Cities?

Author(s): Linda Westman
Published in: Buildings & Cities, 2021
Publisher: Buildings & Cities

IN PRODUCTION: Special Issue: What planetary boundaries mean for cities, regions, and infrastructures

Author(s): Principal Guest Editor: Vanesa Castán Broto, Co-Editor: Olivier Coutard, Stefano Soriani, Erika Conchis
Published in: Territory, Politics, Governance, 2025
Publisher: Routledge

Special Issue: Is There a New Climate Politics? Emergency, Engagement and Justice

Author(s): Academic Editors: Anna R. Davies (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland), Stephan Hügel (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) and Vanessa Castán Broto (University of Sheffield, UK)
Published in: Politics and Governance, Issue 9, 2023
Publisher: Cogitatio
DOI: 10.17645/pag.i247

World Cities Report 2022: Envisaging the Future of Cities

Author(s): Neil Khor; Ben Arimah; Raymond Otieno Otieno; Matthijs van Oostrum; Mary Mutinda; Judith Oginga Martins Authors: External Godwin Arku; Vanesa Castán Broto; Merlin Chatwin; Lewis Dijkstra; Simon Joss: Ayyoob Sharifi; Alice Sverdlik; David Simon; Pietro Florio; Sergio Freire; Thomas Kemper; Michele Melchiorri; Marcello Schiavina; Alfredo Alessandrini; Fabrizio Natale; Daniela Ghio; Olivier Draily;
Published in: 2022, ISBN 978-92-1-132894-3
Publisher: UN-Habitat

Transcending existing paradigms: the quest for justice in urban climate change planning

Author(s): Linda Westman, Vanesa Castán Broto
Published in: Local Environment, Issue 26/5, 2021, Page(s) 536-541, ISSN 1354-9839
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2021.1916903

Just Sustainabilities in a Changing Climate

Author(s): Vanesa Castán Broto, Linda Westman, Ping Huang, Enora Robin
Published in: Urban Climate Justice: Theory, Praxis, Resistance, 2023, ISBN 9780820363790
Publisher: University of Georgia Press

On the deployment of scientific knowledge for a new urbanism of the anthropocene

Author(s): Vanesa Castán Broto
Published in: Global Urbanism Knowledge, Power and the City, 2021, Page(s) Chapter 25, ISBN 9780429259593
Publisher: Routledge

The feminist city and the climate emergency

Author(s): Vanesa Castán Broto
Published in: Handbook on Gender and Cities, 2024, Page(s) 226-236
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
DOI: 10.4337/9781786436139.00032

IN PRODUCTION: The Power of the Mundane: Climate Action and Rapid Urbanization

Author(s): Vanesa Castán Broto, Linda Westman, Ping Huang
Published in: 2026
Publisher: LSE Press

The Role of Local Governments in International Climate Policy

Author(s): Vanesa Castán Broto, Linda Westman, Xira Ruiz Campillo
Published in: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Climate Science, 2022
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.013.842

Urban Sustainability and Justice

Author(s): Vanesa Castán Broto, Linda Westman
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd
DOI: 10.5040/9781350223776

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