Climate Resilient Urban Planning in Southern Africa

This policy brief outlines lessons for integrating climate information into urban adaptation planning in sub-Saharan Africa, based on the FRACTAL and FRACTAL-Plus projects conducted between 2015 and 2022.

• The authors present 10 lessons learned from the FRACTAL and FRACTAL-Plus projects (2015-2022) aimed at supporting long-term resilience to climate change impacts in growing cities within sub-Saharan Africa.
• Climate services should transition from a product-driven focus to a process-driven approach that prioritizes decision-making needs and contexts, treating the creation of a climate information product as a single component of a larger process rather than the final goal.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2023). Climate Resilient Urban Planning in Southern Africa. https://www.sei.org/publications/climate-resilient-urban-planning-in-southern-africa/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Climate Resilient Urban Planning in Southern Africa. 2023. https://www.sei.org/publications/climate-resilient-urban-planning-in-southern-africa/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2023climate, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Climate Resilient Urban Planning in Southern Africa}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2023}, month = sep, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/climate-resilient-urban-planning-in-southern-africa/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }