Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
8-2024
Abstract
Global climate science needs to address a fundamental challenge: the mismatch between the scales of anthropogenic processes driving change and the resulting climate impacts. While projected climate changes and impacts are global in extent, the drivers of this change, and the exposure to its impacts, are concentrated in densely populated urban areas. Despite occupying only 1–3% of the land, urban areas are home to most of the world’s population and responsible for ~70% of current greenhouse gas emissions [1]. By 2050, an additional 2.5 billion people are expected to live in urban areas, with up to 90% of this growth anticipated in the Global South with increased rates of vulnerability. The importance of cities in our climate change dialogue will therefore not diminish but rather become increasingly more significant.
Discipline
Physical and Environmental Geography | Urban Studies and Planning
Research Areas
Integrative Research Areas
Publication
PLOS Climate
Volume
3
Issue
8
First Page
1
Last Page
4
Identifier
10.1371/journal.pclm.0000473
Publisher
Public Library of Science
Citation
Nazarian, Negin; Bechtel, Benjamin; Mills, Gerald; Hart, Melissa Anne; Middel, Ariane; Krayenhoff, E. Scott; Langendijk, Gaby S.; Zhao, Lei; Pitman, Andy; and Winston T. L. CHOW.
Integration of urban climate research within the global climate change discourse. (2024). PLOS Climate. 3, (8), 1-4.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cis_research/438
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Authors-CC-BY
Creative Commons License
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000473