Post-lockdown spread of COVID-19 from cities to vulnerable forest-fringe villages in Central India

DeFries, Ruth and Agarwala, Meghna and Baquie, Sandra and Choksi, Pooja and Dogra, Nitish and Preetha, G. S. and Khanwilkar, Sarika and Mondal, Pinki and Nagendra, Harini and Urpelainen, Johannes (2020) Post-lockdown spread of COVID-19 from cities to vulnerable forest-fringe villages in Central India. Current Science, 119 (1). p. 52. ISSN 0011-3891

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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:	DeFries, Ruth and Agarwala, Meghna and Baquie, Sandra and Choksi, Pooja and Dogra, Nitish and Preetha, G. S. and Khanwilkar, Sarika and Mondal, Pinki and Nagendra, Harini and Urpelainen, Johannes
Document Language:	Language English
Subjects:	Social sciences > Economics > Labor economics > Labor force and market Public Health
Divisions:	Azim Premji University - Bengaluru > School of Development
Full Text Status:	Restricted
URI:	http://publications.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/id/eprint/7205
Publisher URL:	https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv119%2Fi1%2F52-58

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