Learning from COVID-19 for Climate-Ready Urban Transformation

Joan Fitzgerald author Darshini Mahadevia author Gian C Delgado-Ramos author Janice Barnes author Miho Kamei author Kevin Lanza author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:20th Mar '25

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COVID-19 has revealed gaps and presents concurrent challenges and opportunities in city readiness for simultaneous responses to pandemics, climate change, economic growth, and inequality.

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.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.

ISBN: 9781009527293

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 203g

116 pages