Durban
Understanding and Supporting Climate-sensitive Decision Processes in Southern African Cities Review
Find out about recent research on how climate information is brought to bear on decision-making in southern African cities. Development of sustainable cities needs to be based on robust climate information while also involving local communities.
Transformative adaptation of rivers in an urban context: An ecological infrastructure and socio-ecological toolkit
Ecological infrastructure plays an important role in the overall health of rivers. This toolkit supports users to design, plan, implement and finance ecological infrastructure.
Pathways to transformative climate adaptation in southern African cities
A review of academic and grey literature addressing transformative adaptation, with a focus on cities, including two case studies, Durban in South Africa and Harare in Zimbabwe.
Transformative Riverine Management in Durban, South Africa
With support from the C40 Cities Finance Facility, the eThekwini Municipality is building a case for investment in transformative, city-wide urban river management.
The Buffelsdraai Community Reforestation Project
This project aims to address the environmental risks associated with landfill by increasing urban biodiversity and maintaining natural buffer zones to foster climate change adaptation.
The SEI Initiative on Climate Services
This initiative is developing and testing a new framework - Tandem - for the improved co-design, use and interpretation of climate services.
Economics of climate change adaptation at the local scale under conditions of uncertainty and resource constraints: the case of Durban, South Africa
Results for Durban's cost-benefit prioritisation under a particular socio-economic and climate future Abstract This paper describes the design and application...
Global issues on adaptation funding at the urban level
Image: http://www.ladinamo.org/ Adaptation funding is insufficient and needs a new angleIf consensus can be reached about anything these days, it...
Adaptation options for impoverished Mshayazafe settlement, Durban, S. Africa
Photo by Gina Ziervogel A sufficient quantity of good quality water is essential for the well-being of impoverished, and therefore,...