| Title: |
Blinders of extreme heat adaptation: uneven urban development and the reproduction of vulnerabilities. |
| Authors: |
Van Neste, Sophie L.1 (AUTHOR) sophiel.vanneste@inrs.ca, D'Amours, Anne-Marie2 (AUTHOR), Poulin, Étienne3 (AUTHOR), Madénian, Hélène1 (AUTHOR) |
| Source: |
Local Environment. Feb2025, Vol. 30 Issue 2, p288-306. 19p. |
| Subject Terms: |
*CLIMATE change adaptation, *HEAT adaptation, *URBAN growth, *URBAN planning, *CITIES & towns |
| Abstract: |
Despite its deadly nature, extreme heat has received fragmented and scattered responses in cities, often overlooking the crucial social and equity components. Dominant adaptation approaches have paid little attention to chronic socio-economic vulnerabilities to heat stress, resulting in a lack of strategic planning to address them. Building upon critical urban studies and adaptation scholarship, this article examines how the dynamics of urban climate adaptation in the Global North have sidestepped the root causes of heat vulnerability and their (re)production in past, present and future practices of uneven urban development and planning under austerity. We investigate this empirically in attending to the framing of adaptation, the instruments used and the biases they introduce in Montreal (Canada), as well the perception from planners and community groups regarding their agency in responding to extreme heat. We contribute to the literature in analysing how the urban governance of adaptation in urban planning tends to silence the social production of vulnerabilities by three intersecting processes: the biases of instruments used, the unacknowledged legacies of uneven urban development, and the lacking recognition and support for community organisations caring practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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