Publication Date
November 2017
Given the highly developed nature of Mediterranean regions and their importance in global trade and migration, it is crucial to develop comprehensive solutions for climate change. The widespread societal impacts of climate change add urgency towards transdisciplinary and transnational solutions for climate change adaptation.
We represent the Mediterranean Climate Change Consortium (MC-4), an international network of scholars, policy makers, and practitioners working towards climate change adaptation in cities with Mediterranean climates. Our proposition is that areas with similar, Mediterranean, climates will have more climate adaptation lessons to share with each other than areas with distinctly different climates. As a step towards this, we present this special issue, which is a collection of articles and practitioner notes focused on climate change adaptation in Mediterranean climate cities. While this issue has a special focus on southern California, we hope these articles serve as a springboard for the discussion of adaptation lessons from other Mediterranean areas. We look forward to highlighting these regions in subsequent issues. We would like to invite other Mediterranean climate change adaptation scholars and professionals to join us in sharing their research and case studies to be collected in this volume.
Recommended Citation
Cutter, W. Bowman; Norman, Barbara; and Strauss, Eric G.
(2017)
"Climate Change Adaptation in Mediterranean Cities: An Introduction to the Special Issue,"
Cities and the Environment (CATE):
Vol. 10:
Iss.
2, Article 1.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/cate/vol10/iss2/1
