On mapping urban community resilience: land use vulnerability, coping and adapting strategies in Ghana

by Muzna Ahmad | Dec 10, 2025 | Articles, Resources

This article employs a community-based approach to urban climate resilience planning through the application of participatory GIS with flood-affected communities. The participatory mapping process enhanced community resilience by situating local vulnerabilities and...

Whose city? Reflections on urban agroecology as multispecies commons

by Muzna Ahmad | Dec 10, 2025 | Articles, Resources

This chapter frames public urban agroecology initiatives as multispecies commons to explore how urban governance can meaningfully include non-human interests. Drawing on two food-forest projects—the Isla Vista Food Forest (USA) and the Picasso Food Forest (Italy)—the...

What functions for city networks in local climate governance? Conceptualizing cross-site interactions as learning, moulding, and steering

by Muzna Ahmad | Dec 10, 2025 | Articles, Resources

Drawing on insights from the literature on urban climate governance to scrutinise the interactions and roles taken in and by city networks, this paper reviews how their functions in local climate governance have been conceptualised and analyse how these are...

A framework to centre justice in energy transition innovations

by Muzna Ahmad | Dec 10, 2025 | Articles, Resources

We propose a conceptual framework to center justice in energy transition innovations (ETI) and examine how three tenets of justice (recognition, procedural, and distributional justice) influence each level of ETI, including niche, regime, and landscape levels. We...

Climate Change-Conscious Methodologies: Ethical Research in a Changing World

by Muzna Ahmad | Dec 10, 2025 | Articles, Resources

As communities and ecosystems experience more frequent and intense climate impacts, researchers across diverse fields must grapple with the question – how do we ethically conduct research in climate-affected places? In this paper, we introduce a framework for...

Beyond left-right cleavages: making sense of refugees within the fields of struggle

by Muzna Ahmad | Dec 10, 2025 | Articles, Resources

My article shows how geopolitical dynamics and global inequalities shape nativist views in Turkey. By juxtaposing refugee-related views of two competing political parties (i.e., AKP and CHP), I demonstrate that Turkey’s position in the unequal global order has a...