African cities are largely less-built with agile informal settlements and multiple ecologies that harbor different pathways for resilience to climate change. We undertook a qualitative systematic review of academic and policy evidence, to address the question of what interventions are emerging at neigbourhood to city scale to enhance resilience to climate change in Africa. Resilience at neigbourhood scale often stems from harnessing the local resource base and technologies for urban agriculture and forestry; alternative energy from wastes; grassed drainages for protection against erosion; recreation along dry riverbeds; fog-water harvesting; and adjustments in irrigation schedules. At city scale, planning is targeted at buildings, mobility and energy service delivery as the objects to be made resilient. The review established that evidence on comparisons across regions is mainly on East, West and South African cities, and much less on cities in Northern and Central Africa. Ecological comparisons are majorly on coastal and in-land cities, with minimal representation of semi-arid and mountainous cities. Resilience efforts in capital cities are the most dominant in the literature, with less emphasis on secondary cities and towns, which is necessary for a deeper understanding of the role played by inter-municipal and inter-metropolitan collaborations. African cities can bring context-sensitivity to global debates on climate resilience, if theoretical perspectives are generated from emerging interventions across case studies. We conclude with suggestions on what future research needs to take on, if evidence on resilience to climate change in African cities is to be strengthened.

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非洲城市抵御气候变化的途径

非洲城市在很大程度上缺乏灵活的非正式住区和多种生态系统，这些生态系统拥有不同的应对气候变化的途径。我们对学术和政策证据进行了定性系统审查，以解决在城市附近出现哪些干预措施以增强非洲对气候变化的适应力的问题。社区规模的复原力通常源于利用当地资源基础和城市农业和林业技术；废物替代能源；用于防止侵蚀的草地排水系统；沿着干涸的河床休闲；雾水收集；并调整灌溉计划。在城市范围内，规划的目标是将建筑、移动性和能源服务交付作为具有弹性的对象。审查确定，跨区域比较的证据主要是东非、西非和南非城市，而北非和中非城市的证据则少得多。生态比较主要针对沿海和内陆城市，半干旱和山区城市的代表性极少。省会城市的韧性努力在文献中占主导地位，次要城市和城镇的重点较少，这对于更深入地了解城市间和大都市间合作所发挥的作用是必要的。如果从跨案例研究的新兴干预措施中产生理论观点，非洲城市可以为关于气候复原力的全球辩论带来背景敏感性。我们最后提出了关于未来研究需要采取什么的建议，