Responding to multiple environmental and social crises through the advancement of urban areas as laboratories and forerunners of societal transformations engaging multiple level of governance.

Our work

We use mixed methods that integrate qualitative and quantitative approaches to understand the historical evolution of cities and, building on that, how cities are likely to transform in the future. Case studies and targeted interviews are combined with quantitative and spatial data to characterize vulnerability, exposure, and impacts due to environmental and social stressors of different social groups and to identify elements of successful climate adaptation and mitigation strategies in local contexts.