The local governance of climate change: new tools to respond to old limitations in Esmeraldas, Ecuador

摘要: This article argues that climate change, seen as a socially constructed anticipation of natural disasters and future-risk plays out in present politics, is enabling the emergence new modes governance cities global south. The focuses on process by which city Esmeraldas, Ecuador, developed Climate Change Adaptation Mitigation Strategy. Within context change adaptation, Esmeraldas mobilised discourses, stakeholders, planning mechanisms to address pre-existing urban development limitations. discursively enabled municipality's ongoing project leveraging resources, creating consensus, informing practice. adaptation thus became an important mechanism for engaging with local priorities, particularly those most vulnerable populations, bridging gap between formal world policymaking reality life city, more often structured informality.