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Title Integrating solutions to adapt cities for climate change
Full text http://hdl.handle.net/1885/278377; https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/278377/3/PIIS2542519621001352.pdf.jpg
Date 2021
Author(s) Lin, Brenda B.; Ossola, Alessandro; Alberti, Marina; Andersson, Erik; Bai, Xuemei; Dobbs, Cynnamon; Elmqvist, Thomas; Evans, K. L; Frantzeskaki, Niki; Fuller, Richard A.; Gaston, Kevin J
Abstract Record climate extremes are reducing urban liveability, compounding inequality, and threatening infrastructure. Adaptation measures that integrate technological, nature-based, and social solutions can provide multiple co-benefits to address complex socioecological issues in cities while increasing resilience to potential impacts. However, there remain many challenges to developing and implementing integrated solutions. In this Viewpoint, we consider the value of integrating across the three solution sets, the challenges and potential enablers for integrating solution sets, and present examples of challenges and adopted solutions in three cities with different urban contexts and climates (Freiburg, Germany; Durban, South Africa; and Singapore). We conclude with a discussion of research directions and provide a road map to identify the actions that enable successful implementation of integrated climate solutions. We highlight the need for more systematic research that targets enabling environments for integration; achieving integrated solutions in different contexts to avoid maladaptation; simultaneously improving liveability, sustainability, and equality; and replicating via transfer and scale-up of local solutions. Cities in systematically disadvantaged countries (sometimes referred to as the Global South) are central to future urban development and must be prioritised. Helping decision makers and communities understand the potential opportunities associated with integrated solutions for climate change will encourage urgent and deliberate strides towards adapting cities to the dynamic climate reality. - TM was supported by the US National Science Foundation through grants #1444755, #1927167, and #193493 to participate in the writing of the Viewpoint. BBL received funding from CSIRO Land & Water and the Julius Career Award
Language en_AU
Publisher Elsevier B.V
Type of publication Journal article
Format application/pdf
Source The Lancet Planetary Health
Rights Copyright © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd.; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/; Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License
Identifier 2542-5196; 10.1016/S2542-5196(21)00135-2
Repository Canberra - Australian National University
Added to C-A: 2022-11-28;09:16:20