Participatory Planning for Climate Compatible Development in Maputo, Mozambique

Participatory Planning for Climate Compatible Development in Maputo, Mozambique is a practitioners' handbook that builds upon the experience of a pilot project that was awarded the United Nations 'Lighthouse Activity' Award. Building upon a long scholarly tradition of participatory planning, this dual-language (English/Portuguese) 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. In order to do so, the author proposes a Participatory Action Planning methodology to organise communities, and also advances mechanisms for institutional development through partnerships.

About the Author :
Vanesa Castan 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 Politecnica 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). Domingos Macucule teaches planning at the Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique. His research studies processes of urban governance in peri-urban settlements in Maputo.

Review :

'The book 'Participatory Planning for Climate Compatible Development' advances a key argument concerning the need to involve urban citizens in local action for climate adaptation.'
Climate and Development Knowledge Network

'This book is a guiding light for planners, communities and anyone concerned with climate change in our cities. It will join a growing but still limited collection of studies and is likely to become an important guide to living in our climate-changed present. Participatory action planning might not be the only way to involve urban residents in addressing this new landscape, but it offers a deeply considered approach that is needed across Maputo and cities more widely.'
Africa at LSE Book Reviews

'This English/Portuguese book is an example of how participatory planning, which puts citizens at the heart of community improvement, can facilitate local responses to climate change challenges. Focusing on the partnerships between governments and communities in Maputo, Mozambique, this bilingual compilation highlights key lessons of climate compatible development for urban managers, practitioners, academics, policy makers, citizens and activists.'
Environment and Urbanization Journal