Learning from COVID-19 for Climate-Ready Urban Transformation

作者：Darshini Mahadevia, Gian Carlo Delgado Ramos, Janice Barnes, Joan Fitzgerald, Miho Kamei, Kevin Lanza, William Solecki, Minal Pathak, Martha Macêdo de Lima Barata, Aliyu Salisu Barau, Maria Dombrov, Cynthia Rosenzweig · 发表于：Cambridge University Press eBooks · 年份：2025 · DOI：10.1017/9781009527279 · 被引用次数：10 · 研究领域：COVID-19 epidemiological studies、COVID-19 impact on air quality、COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts

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.