Learning from COVID-19 for Climate-Ready Urban Transformation (Elements in Climate Change and Cities)

By: null Darshini Mahadevia and null Gian C. Delgado-Ramos and null Janice Barnes and null Joan Fitzgerald and null Miho Kamei and null Kevin Lanza

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781009527262
Related ISBNs:: 9781009527255, 9781009527255
Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Date of Addition:: 03/31/25
Copyrighted By:: Darshini Mahadevia, Gian C. Delgado Ramos, Janice Barnes, Joan Fitzgerald, Miho Kamei, Kevin Lanza and contributors
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Earth Sciences
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.