TY - JOUR

T1 - Extreme Climate Events as Opportunities for Radical Open Citizenship

AU - John, Beatrice

AU - Kagan, Sacha

PY - 2014

Y1 - 2014

N2 - Droughts, floods and other natural catastrophes related to climate change belong to a class of global risks that have downstream effects on the economy and productivity of settlements, social cohesion and administrational institutions. This represents growing challenges for adaptation strategies anddisaster management. In order to increase the overall resilience of socio-ecological systems, civil society will be compelled to draw from its self-organisation rather than relying on increasingly unstable established structures. Based on the exploration of 20th century concepts such as “horizontalidad” and “right to the city”, this article explores characteristics of resilience that offer possible responses for civil society.

AB - Droughts, floods and other natural catastrophes related to climate change belong to a class of global risks that have downstream effects on the economy and productivity of settlements, social cohesion and administrational institutions. This represents growing challenges for adaptation strategies anddisaster management. In order to increase the overall resilience of socio-ecological systems, civil society will be compelled to draw from its self-organisation rather than relying on increasingly unstable established structures. Based on the exploration of 20th century concepts such as “horizontalidad” and “right to the city”, this article explores characteristics of resilience that offer possible responses for civil society.

KW - Sustainability Science

KW - Climate change

KW - sustainability transformation

KW - resilience

KW - Politics

KW - self-organisation

KW - horizontalism

KW - democracy

KW - anarchism

KW - Sociology

KW - right to the city

KW - urban social movements

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 5

SP - 60

EP - 75

JO - Open Citizenship

JF - Open Citizenship

SN - 2191-5695

IS - 1

ER -