Adaptation and related concepts of urban climate resilience are also con- cerns for the broader agenda of sustainable development . Urban areas can play a positive role in ad- vancing sustainability, but the pace and scale of urban development can also undermine progress in SDGs  . With careful planning, urbanisation can be a transformative force, enhancing equity and well-being through co-benefits and synergies between climate change adaptation, equitable urban development and mitigation  . Cities can be effective change agents when supported by networked local and national institutions, including professional bodies  . Low Emission Development Strategies  have developed effective science-policy interactions to support energy-system, environ- mental and economic development planning strategies in the city of Shanghai, China . New literature is emerging about how adaptive changes at the urban level could integrate both far reaching rapid emission reduction and community protection in trans- formative ways . There is an increasing con- sensus about the need for integrated governance of urban areas with- in and across regions, so that urban risk management and adaptation happen hand in hand with more general processes of transition toward more sustainable urban regions .
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