Publication Type
Book Chapter
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
2-2022
Abstract
In all cities and urban areas, the risk faced by people and assets from hazards associated with climate change has increased (high confidence1 ). Urban areas are now home to 4.2 billion people, the majority of the world’s population. Urbanisation processes generate vulnerability and exposure which combine with climate change hazards to drive urban risk and impacts (high confidence). Globally, the most rapid growth in urban vulnerability and exposure has been in cities and settlements where adaptive capacity is limited, especially in unplanned and informal settlements in low- and middle-income nations and in smaller and medium-sized urban centres (high confidence). Between 2015 and 2020, urban populations globally grew by more than 397 million people, with more than 90% of this growth taking place in less developed regions.
Keywords
climate change, climate adaptation, urban resilience, governance, governance networks, risk perceptions, climate strategies
Discipline
Urban, Community and Regional Planning | Urban Studies and Planning
Publication
Climate Change 2022: Impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability
Volume
1
Editor
H.O. Pörtner, et al.
First Page
907
Last Page
1040
ISBN
9781009325844
Identifier
10.1017/9781009325844.008
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
City or Country
Cambridge
Citation
DODMAN, David; HAYWARD, Bronwyn; PELLING, Mark; CASTAN BROTO, Vanesa; CHOW, Winston T. L.; and et al..
Cities, settlements and key infrastructure. (2022). Climate Change 2022: Impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability. 1, 907-1040.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cis_research/33
Copyright Owner and License
Publisher
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009325844.008