Environment & Urbanization April 2014 Volume 26 Number 1 CONTENTS EDITORIAL Getting local governments, residents and enterprises to respond to the new IPCC assessment3 David Satterthwaite Towards resilience and transformation for cities II Towards transformative adaptation in cities: the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment11 Aromar Revi, David Satterthwaite, Fernando Aragón-Durand, Jan Corfee-Morlot, Robert B R Kiunsi, Mark Pelling, Debra Roberts, William Solecki, Sumetee Pahwa Gajjar and Alice Sverdlik Advocacy for urban resilience: UNISDR’s Making Cities Resilient Campaign29 Cassidy Johnson and Sophie Blackburn Re-thinking “Biomanizales”: addressing climate change adaptation in Manizales, Colombia53 Jorgelina Hardoy and Luz Stella Velásquez Barrero Institutionalizing climate change adaptation at municipal and state level in Chetumal and Quintana Roo, Mexico69 Jorgelina Hardoy, Iván Hernández, Juan Alfredo Pacheco and Guadalupe Sierra Moving beyond short-term coping and adaptation86 Christine Wamsler and Ebba Brink Individual, communal and institutional responses to climate change by low-income households in Khulna, Bangladesh112 Anika Nasra Haque, David Dodman and Md. Mohataz Hossain Resilience, transition or transformation? A comparative analysis of changing water governance systems in four southern cities130 Michaela Hordijk, Liliana Miranda Sara and Catherine Sutherland Adapting the built environment: the role of gender in shaping vulnerability and resilience to climate extremes in Dhaka147 Huraera Jabeen Asset planning for climate change adaptation: lessons from Cartagena, Colombia166 Alfredo Stein and Caroline Moser Averting a downward spiral: building resilience in informal urban settlements through adaptive governance184 Leanne Seeliger and Ivan Turok Transformational resilience thinking: putting people, power and politics at the heart of urban climate resilience200 Aditya Bahadur and Thomas Tanner Feedback African urban fantasies: dreams or nightmares?215 Vanessa Watson The real lives of urban fantasies232 Gautam Bhan Interrogating urban poverty lines – the case of Zambia236 Miniva Chibuye Participatory budgeting at scale and bridging the rural−urban divide in Chengdu257 Yves Cabannes and Zhuang Ming Community-based approaches to settlement upgrading as manifested through the big ACCA projects in Metro Manila, Philippines276 Jakub Galuszka Researching entrepreneurship in low-income settlements: the strengths and challenges of participatory methods297 Katherine V Gough, Thilde Langevang and Rebecca Namatovu Bulletin Board312 Summaries of Articles315 Cover photo: Woman clearing a drain in order to reduce water clogging and improve access to her house © Huraera Jabeen (2010) Next issue: Conflict and violence in twenty-first century cities The following papers will be among those published in the next issue: African urban fantasies: past lessons and emerging realities − Allan Cain The impoverishment of poverty: reflections on urban citizenship and inequality in contemporary Delhi − Gautam Bhan Water and sanitation provision in eThekwini Municipality: a spatially differentiated approach − Catherine Sutherland, Michaela Hordijk, Bonang Lewis, Claudia Meyer and Sibongile Buthelezi Knowledge-building in adaptation management: concertación processes in transforming Lima water and climate change governance − Liliana Miranda Sara and Isa Baud Decentralization, participation and deliberation in water governance: a case study of the implications for Guarulhos, Brazil − Francine van den Brandeler, Michaela Hordijk, Kim von Schönfeld and John Sydenstricker-Neto Knowledge integration: a step forward? Continuities and changes in Arequipa’s water governance system − María Evangelina Filippi, Michaela Hordijk, Julio Alegría and José Denis Rojas Where there is no local government: addressing disaster risk reduction in a small town in Malawi − Mtafu Manda Visit http://eau.sagepub.com Free access to tables of contents and abstracts. Site-wide access to the full text for members of subscribing institutions.