Learning from COVID-19 for climate-ready urban transformation / coordinating lead authors, Darshini Mahadevia, Gian C. Delgado-Ramos ; lead authors, Janice Barnes [and three others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mahadevia, Darshini, author.

Delgado, Gian Carlo, 1978- author.

Barnes, Janice, author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in climate change and cities : third assessment report of the Urban Climate Change Research Network 2976-9116

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns.

COVID-19 (Disease)--Social aspects.

COVID-19 (Disease).

Urban policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (103 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Summary:

Cities have suffered from three years of the COVID-19 pandemic and are increasingly experiencing exacerbated heatwaves, floods, and droughts due to climate change. Going forward, cities need to address both climate and public health crises effectively while reducing poverty and inequity, often in the context of economic pressure and declining levels of trust in government. The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed gaps in city readiness for simultaneous responses to pandemics and climate change, particularly in the Global South. However, these concurrent challenges to cities present an opportunity to reformulate current urbanization patterns and the economies and dynamics they enable. This Element focuses on understanding COVID-19's impact on city systems related to climate change mitigation and adaptation, and vice versa, in terms of warnings, lessons learned, and calls to action. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 17 Feb 2025).

ISBN:

9781009527286

1009527282

9781009527262

1009527266

9781009527279

1009527274

Access Restriction:

Open Access. Unrestricted online access