Integrating solutions to adapt cities for climate change

Lin, Brenda B.; Ossola, Alessandro; Alberti, Marina; Andersson, Erik; Bai, Xuemei; Dobbs, Cynnamon; Elmqvist, Thomas; Evans, Karl L.; Frantzeskaki, Niki; Fuller, Richard A.; Gaston, Kevin J.; Haase, Dagmar; Jim, Chi Yung; Bosch, Cecil C. Konijnendijk van den; Nagendra, Harini; Niemelä, Jari; McPhearson, Timon; Moomaw, William R.; Parnell, Susan; Pataki, Diane E.; Ripple, William J.; Tan, Puay Yok

doi:10.1016/s2542-5196(21)00135-2

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“…For instance, greening can cause changes and new imbalances in the real estate market that limit the aforementioned recreational benefits, particularly for low-income households. Thus, and in line with recent arguments in urban social-ecological-technological studies [28,29], the societal implications we are examining in this Special Issue are ambivalent in the best sense.…”

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Editorial for Special Issue “Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) in Cities and Their Interactions with Urban Land, Ecosystems, Built Environments and People: Debating Societal Implications”

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Editorial for Special Issue “Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) in Cities and Their Interactions with Urban Land, Ecosystems, Built Environments and People: Debating Societal Implications”

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“…In our sample, public health agency engagement was highest in heat planning and climate-health surveillance; heat planning activities were prevalent across this group of cities, while climate-health surveillance activities were much scarcer. We also found that multiple agencies are reportedly engaged in implementing health-associated activities proposed in city climate adaptation plans, in particular planning, environment, emergency management and response, weather services and utility and infrastructure agencies; ideally, public health could identify ways to proactively engage with these agencies [63]. Our findings suggest several climate-health governance opportunities could improve large city adaptation outcomes:…”

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Urban climate-health governance: Charting the role of public health in large global city adaptation plans

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Over the last decade many large world cities have scaled up efforts at climate adaptation, a primary focus of which is protecting population health. With extreme weather disasters increasing worldwide, public health agencies are among local institutions under greatest stress; the Covid-19 pandemic has only heightened pressure on these agencies. Yet the limited literature examining adaptation actions across world cities suggest few, mainly high-income cities report health-related adaptation, while city public health agency engagement in adaptation has received little research attention. In this comparative review, we aimed to characterize the public health role in the adaptation plans of 22 large cities pre-identified as highly health-adaptive, by examining five health-associated adaptation activities chosen as “promising practice” based on evidence synthesized from evaluation research and practical experience: (i) hazard and vulnerability mapping; (ii) extreme weather preparedness and response; (iii) extreme heat plans (including heat early warning); (iv) non-heat early warning (e.g., flooding, vector-borne disease); and (v) climate-health monitoring and outcome surveillance. We found most (90%) city adaptation plans reported actions in at least three of these five activity areas. However, only 73% of these health-focused plans reported involvement of a public health agency (though the share was higher for cities in low- and middle-income countries). We detected differences across the five activities, including an ascending pattern of public health engagement starting with heat plans and including activities such as preparedness and mapping as health agency involvement increased. We also identified substantial presence of other city agencies–notably urban planning, emergency management and public utilities–in implementing these health-associated activities. With every world region likely to experience more widespread and intensifying climate impacts, and growing pressure on local public health agencies in conjunction with the Covid-19 pandemic, we identify opportunities for enhancing public health engagement in climate adaptation in large cities with a view to scaling up their ability to contribute to climate adaptation goals.

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“…Leaving nature in place, or creating new spaces for nature in cities demands the transformation of planning approaches, policy mechanisms and community practices to put nature at the forefront (Shade et al 2020 ; Ossola and Lin 2021 ). A social, ecological and economic case can be made for prioritising nature-based solutions in Australian cities (Lin et al 2021 ). Examples of nature-based solutions include water sensitive and biodiversity sensitive urban design (Garrrand et al 2018 ; Kirk et al 2021 ) rather than traditional built infrastructure and engineering solutions (Allan et al 2020 ; Coutts et al 2013 ; Kabisch et al 2017 ; Ignatieva et al 2018 , 2020 ; Frantzeskaki et al 2019 ; Keeler et al 2019 ).…”

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A transformative mission for prioritising nature in Australian cities

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Australia is experiencing mounting pressures related to processes of urbanisation, biodiversity loss and climate change felt at large in cities. At the same time, it is cities that can take the leading role in pioneering approaches and solutions to respond to those coupling emergencies. In this perspective piece we respond to the following question: What are the required transformations for prioritising, valuing, maintaining and embracing nature in cities in Australia? We adopt the mission framework as an organising framework to present proposed pathways to transform Australian cities as nature-positive places of the future. We propose three interconnected pathways as starting actions to steer urban planning, policy and governance in Australian cities: First, cities need to establish evidence-based planning for nature in cities and mainstream new planning tools that safeguard and foreground urban nature. Second, collaborative planning needs to become a standard practice in cities and inclusive governance for nature in cities needs to prioritise Aboriginal knowledge systems and practices as well as look beyond what local governments can do. Third, for progressing to nature-positive cities, it is paramount to empower communities to innovate with nature across Australian cities. Whilst we focus on Australian cities, the lessons and pathways are broadly applicably globally and can inspire science-policy debates for the post COP15 biodiversity and COP26 climate change implementation processes.

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Integrating solutions to adapt cities for climate change

Cited by 91 publications

References 61 publications

Editorial for Special Issue “Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) in Cities and Their Interactions with Urban Land, Ecosystems, Built Environments and People: Debating Societal Implications”

Editorial for Special Issue “Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) in Cities and Their Interactions with Urban Land, Ecosystems, Built Environments and People: Debating Societal Implications”

Urban climate-health governance: Charting the role of public health in large global city adaptation plans

A transformative mission for prioritising nature in Australian cities

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