Fostering Opportunities In Cities: Adaptability And Transformability Of Urban Systems Marta Olazabal / Spain Marta Olazabal is an Environmental Engineer by training and works in the Basque centre for Climate Change Research (BC3). She has 8 years of research experience in the Basque Country and has also enjoyed scientific stays in Germany, The Netherlands and UK. Combining work and studies, Marta gained an MSc on Environmental Engineering in 2008 and she is currently PhD student in the Department of Land Economy of the University of Cambridge (UK). Her main fields of interest are in relation to urban sustainability, urban ecological services, resilience and adaptation to climate change and resource scarcity.
Borrowing the insights of adaptive governance and transformations in socio-ecological systems, and also those in socio-technical transitions theory, this paper highlights the importance of managing equally adaptability and transformability in cities in a way that opportunities towards more resilient and sustainable development are not vanished.