Building upon a long scholarly tradition of participatory planning, this dual-language book addresses crucial questions about the relevance of citizen participation in planning for climate compatible development and argues that citizens have knowledge and access to resources that enable them to develop a sustainable vision for their community.
Vanesa Castán Broto is a Senior Lecturer at the Development Planning Unit at the Barlett School of Planning, The Bartlett, University College London’s prestigious faculty of the built environment. Her research seeks to achieve socially and environmentally just development in cities in the global south. In 2016, she was awarded a prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize.
She holds postgraduate degrees from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain), Wageningen University (Netherlands) and an engineering doctorate in the UK (University of Surrey). Prior to joining UCL, she was involved in post-doctoral research at Durham University which examined the processes of social and technological innovation within the city in response to climate change.
Jonathan Ensor is a Senior Researcher in Sustainable Development at the Stockholm Environment Institute, University of York. His work focuses on community-based adaptation and the potential for development and governance processes to integrate power and social justice with resilience thinking.
Emily Boyd is Professor of Resilience Geography at the Department of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Reading. Her work focuses on how poverty, collective action and institutions shape resilience in ways that help societies to anticipate or adapt livelihoods under a changing global environment
Charlotte Allen is an urban planner with almost 30 years’ experience of working in Mozambique. In 2011–2013 she facilitated and documented the fieldwork for the participatory action plan in the Chamanculo C neighbourhood of Maputo.
Carlos Seventine is the executive secretary of the National Environment Fund of Mozambique (FUNAB).