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Governing climate change:

This paper examines the climate change vulnerability of the Northern Coast of the State ofSão Paulo (Litoral Norte Paulista), Brazil. Based on a literature review and a case-studyencompassing the analysis of policy documents, secondary data and semi-structuredinterviews with policymakers and civil society representatives, it aims to provide a usefulway to examine the multiple and overlapping processes of environmental, social-economicand climatic change in this region. By analyzing its vulnerability, the paper argues that thedegree to which these cities are vulnerable to climate change is largely determined by thebroader historic and socio-economic contextual factors. The finding indicates that the social,economic and cultural changes brought by the last four decades of intense process ofurbanization, tourism exploitation and increasingly economic activities have deepened socialand environmental problems, increasing the vulnerability of particular groups and theregion as a whole to climate variability and change. The cross-scale nature of the problemsand the cross-level interactions of these processes pose significant challenges for thegovernance structures and institutions on the region that fail to address the root causes ofvulnerability, highlighting the municipalities’ insufficiency to address the consequences ofa changing environment and climate.