Kayin Venner

ABSTRACT Children and youth are increasingly recognized as a stakeholder group that needs to be involved in all planning processes affecting their living environments, such as urban playgrounds. Schoolyards and public playgrounds, as key spaces embedded in the everyday geographies of children, offer a promising site for child-friendly nature-based solutions to counter social and environmental challenges, including health challenges, urban heat stress, and lack of safety for outdoor play.

Evaluating adaptation: an analysis of policy progress in coastal cities and regions Keywords: Adaptation, Urban, Policy, Assessment, Monitoring, Evaluation, Locally-Led, Multi-level governance, Learning, Maladaptation.

Urban greening is critical for human health and climate adaptation and mitigation goals, but its financing tends to prioritize economic growth imperatives. This often results in elite value and rent capture and unjust greening outcomes. We argue that cities can, however, take action to ensure more socially just impacts of green financing.