ABSTRACT

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.

摘要

从 COVID-19 大流行中吸取教训，为加强城市对气候变化的包容性复原力的研究和行动提供了机会。经验教训及其影响用于描述气候复原力研究更新议程。确定了三个关键经验教训。第一个教训是通用的，即气候变化风险通过重叠的社会过程、条件和决策环境与其他风险共存并相互作用。另外两个教训是城市特有的：连通性网络带来风险和复原力，过度拥挤是影响 COVID-19 和气候变化影响的多重决定因素的关键指标。从这些经验教训中产生了三个研究重点：动态和复合脆弱性、系统性风险和风险根本原因分析。