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.

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.

Book Information
ISBN 9781009527255
Author Darshini Mahadevia
Format Hardback
Page Count 116
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 312g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm