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Urban flood resilience: Governing conflicting urbanism and climate action in Amsterdam

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  • Sarah E. Sharma

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Amsterdam Rainproof emerged in 2014 to manage the risks posed by a novel environmental hazard threatening European cities: pluvial flooding, locally called cloudbursts. Amsterdam Rainproof’s primary policy goal is to enhance Amsterdam’s resilience to pluvial flooding. This paper examines the emergence of climate resilience and its execution on the ground in Amsterdam. In so doing, I draw on tools from economic geography – including the role of urban space and inter-scalar state restructuring – to contribute to debates in International Political Economy and the Environment (IPEE) on the relationship between resilience and neoliberal urbanism in global capitalism. I argue that there are inherent tensions between the rhetoric of sustainable urbanization put forth by Amsterdam Rainproof and its reality on the ground, namely that it ineffectively adapts urban spaces to increasing and unpredictable flooding while attempting to manage forms of capital accumulation at the urban scale.

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  • Sarah E. Sharma, 2023. "Urban flood resilience: Governing conflicting urbanism and climate action in Amsterdam," Review of International Political Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 30(4), pages 1413-1435, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rripxx:v:30:y:2023:i:4:p:1413-1435
    DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2022.2100449
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