Learning From Covid-19 for Climate-Ready Urban Transformation

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.

List of contents

List of Contributors; Series Preface; Foreword I; Foreword II; Major Findings and Key Messages; 1. Introduction and Framing; 2. COVID-19, Vulnerability, and Informality; 3. COVID-19 Interactions at the Urban Scale; 4. COVID-19 and Urban Systems: Built Environment, Transportation, and Waste; 5. COVID-19 Interactions with Urban Ecology 6. COVID-19 Governance and Urban Climate Action; 7. COVID-19, Energy, and Economics; 8. Learning from COVID-19: Accelerating Urban Transformational Pathways; Appendix; References.

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.

Foreword

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.

Product details

• Authors: Janice Barnes, Gian C. Delgado-Ramos, Joan Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald Joan, Miho Kamei, Kevin Lanza, Darshini Mahadevia, Darshini Delgado-Ramos Mahadevia, Mahadevia Darshini
• Assisted by: Martha Barata (Editor of the series), Aliyu Salisu Barau (Editor of the series), Maria Dombrov (Editor of the series), Minal Pathak (Editor of the series), Cynthia Rosenzweig (Editor of the series), William Solecki (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2025
• EAN: 9781009527255
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0952725-5
• No. of pages: 116
• Series: Elements in Climate Change and Cities
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Miscellaneous; Climate Change, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Meteorology & Climatology, Infectious & contagious diseases, Social impact of environmental issues, Human Geography, Settlement, urban and rural geography, Human coronaviruses