Integrating solutions to adapt cities for climate change

Lin, Brenda B and Ossola, Alessandro and Alberti, Marina and Andersson, Erik and Bai, Xuemei and Dobbs, Cynnamon and Elmqvist, Thomas and Evans, Karl L and Frantzeskaki, Niki and Fuller, Richard A and Gaston, Kevin J and Haase, Dagmar and Jim, Chi Yung and Konijnendijk, Cecil and Nagendra, Harini and Niemelä, Jari and McPhearson, Timon and Moomaw, William R and Parnell, Susan and Pataki, Diane and Ripple, William J and Tan, Puay Yok (2021) Integrating solutions to adapt cities for climate change. The Lancet Planetary Health, 5 (7). pp. e479-e486. ISSN 25425196

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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, many challenges remain in developing and implementing such integrated solutions. In this Viewpoint, we consider the value of integrating across these three solution sets, the challenges and potential enablers, and present examples from 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 roadmap to identify actions that enable the successful implementation of integrated climate solutions. We highlight the need for more systematic research targeting enabling environments for integration, achieving context-specific solutions to avoid maladaptation, simultaneously improving liveability, sustainability, and equality, and enabling replication through the transfer and scaling up of local solutions. Cities in systematically disadvantaged countries, often referred to as the Global South, are central to future urban development and must be prioritised. Helping decision-makers and communities understand the opportunities associated with integrated climate solutions can encourage urgent and deliberate action to adapt cities to an evolving climate reality.

Item Type:	Article
Authors:	Lin, Brenda B and Ossola, Alessandro and Alberti, Marina and Andersson, Erik and Bai, Xuemei and Dobbs, Cynnamon and Elmqvist, Thomas and Evans, Karl L and Frantzeskaki, Niki and Fuller, Richard A and Gaston, Kevin J and Haase, Dagmar and Jim, Chi Yung and Konijnendijk, Cecil and Nagendra, Harini and Niemelä, Jari and McPhearson, Timon and Moomaw, William R and Parnell, Susan and Pataki, Diane and Ripple, William J and Tan, Puay Yok
Document Language:	Language English
Subjects:	Social sciences > Sociology & anthropology > Communities > Planning and development > Development > Urban development Social sciences > Economics > Production > Sustainable development Natural Sciences > Earth sciences > Geology, hydrology, meteorology > Climatology and weather
Divisions:	Azim Premji University - Bengaluru > Research Centre > Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability
Full Text Status:	Public
URI:	http://publications.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/id/eprint/7172
Publisher URL:	https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196%2821%2900135-2

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