ABSTRACT
The objective of this chapter is to analyse how resilience to the impacts of climate change is being built at megalopolis scale by focussing on the disaster risk management and climate change adaptation policies. In particular, the chapter seeks to identify common values and meanings between the two policies in order to propose ways of improvement. By understanding how values and meanings are playing out at the policy level one can locate synergies between the two policies that would foster resilience.
By using the case of Mexico City megalopolis, this chapter intends to make a contribution to the knowledge on resilience to climate change at a megalopolitan scale from a social constructionist perspective; a perspective rarely employed to analyze urban resilience, which has been traditionally addressed from a positivist approach emphasizing its ecological–biophysical dimension. Flood risk management and climate change adaptation in the Mexico City Megalopolis are complex processes not only due to the great variety of components and interrelations of the socio-ecological urban system at different spatial and time scales but also due to the existence of varying interpretations, meanings and policy values of the institutions and actors involved.
