Changing Urban Riskscapes (2025)

“Changing Urban Riskscapes: Climate Change, Finance, and the Built Environment” (2025)  Savannah Cox, Zac Taylor, Stephen Collier, and Harriet Bulkeley Journal of City Climate Policy and Economy 4(1) (File)

ABSTRACT: This special issue explores the centrality of finance, risk rating, and
valuation in driving urban adaptation pathways and outcomes. The articles in this
issue do so through a vast set of sites. These include adaptation efforts underway
in high- and low-income cities in Mexico, Portugal, India, the United States, and Taiwan, as well as novel climate risk governance experiments in large and small cities
in the Caribbean, the Netherlands, and the Philippines. The articles also look beyond
the boundaries of the city and explore the risk rating and valuation practices of
increasingly climate-exposed insurance companies and water utilities in Australia
and the United Kingdom. All the articles trace the complex and consequential interplay of risk, finance, and adaptation in cities with a specific goal in mind: to consider
how urban policies, financing, and planning measures can be repurposed to
advance equitable, transformative adaptation