Catherine Sasman
3 December 2008
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Climate impacts for these urban settings are predicted to be severe if not managed properly.
The IIED said a plausible urban adaptation in poor cities does exist: community-based adaptation that can equally well be implemented at rural locales.
People should take part in decisions and be active participants in actions affecting their lives. Communities are then able to identify their own vulnerabilities and needs.
Also, communities often know what are the characteristics of the territories they live in, and in all likelihood can devise strategies with such local knowledge, more in tune with the environments they find themselves in.
And, communities can become the drivers of a change of resource use and management.
"The success of urban adaptation depends on good local governance combined with appropriate funding flows: one cannot work without the other. A municipality willing to facilitate adaptation by all its citizens cannot accomplish this without adequate resources. Similarly, a pro-poor adaptation strategy demands that city governments see the poor as active participants in identifying and implementing solutions to the challenge of climate change," said IIED.
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