A climate resilience research renewal agenda: learning lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for urban climate resilience

TY - JOUR

T1 - A climate resilience research renewal agenda

T2 - learning lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for urban climate resilience

AU - Pelling, Mark

AU - Chow, Winston T.L.

AU - Chu, Eric

AU - Dawson, Richard

AU - Dodman, David

AU - Fraser, Arabella

AU - Hayward, Bronwyn

AU - Khirfan, Luna

AU - McPhearson, Timon

AU - Prakash, Anjal

AU - Ziervogel, Gina

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Copyright: Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

PY - 2021

Y1 - 2021

N2 - Learning lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic opens an opportunity for enhanced research and action on inclusive urban resilience to climate change. Lessons and their implications are used to describe a climate resilience research renewal agenda. Three key lessons are identified. The first lesson is generic, that climate change risk coexists and interacts with other risks through overlapping social processes, conditions and decision-making contexts. Two further lessons are urban specific: that networks of connectivity bring risk as well as resilience and that overcrowding is a key indicator of the multiple determinants of vulnerability to both COVID-19 and climate change impacts. From these lessons three research priorities arise: dynamic and compounding vulnerability, systemic risk and risk root cause analysis. These connected agendas identify affordable and healthy housing, social cohesion, minority and local leadership and multiscale governance as entry points for targeted research that can break cycles of multiple risk creation and so build back better for climate change as well as COVID-19 in recovery and renewal.

AB - Learning lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic opens an opportunity for enhanced research and action on inclusive urban resilience to climate change. Lessons and their implications are used to describe a climate resilience research renewal agenda. Three key lessons are identified. The first lesson is generic, that climate change risk coexists and interacts with other risks through overlapping social processes, conditions and decision-making contexts. Two further lessons are urban specific: that networks of connectivity bring risk as well as resilience and that overcrowding is a key indicator of the multiple determinants of vulnerability to both COVID-19 and climate change impacts. From these lessons three research priorities arise: dynamic and compounding vulnerability, systemic risk and risk root cause analysis. These connected agendas identify affordable and healthy housing, social cohesion, minority and local leadership and multiscale governance as entry points for targeted research that can break cycles of multiple risk creation and so build back better for climate change as well as COVID-19 in recovery and renewal.

KW - adaptation

KW - climate policy

KW - COVID-19

KW - development

KW - resilience

KW - systemic risk

KW - Urban

KW - vulnerability

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85113814480

U2 - 10.1080/17565529.2021.1956411

DO - 10.1080/17565529.2021.1956411

M3 - Comment/debate

AN - SCOPUS:85113814480

SN - 1756-5529

JO - Climate and Development

JF - Climate and Development

ER -