Climate Adaptation and Mitigation in the Urban Environment

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue on “Climate Adaptation and Mitigation in the Urban Environment" aims to explore integrated frameworks, strategies, and applications for managing climate adaptation and mitigation in urban environments. As global temperatures continue to rise, urban areas are becoming both critical contributors to greenhouse gas emissions and highly vulnerable to climate change impacts.

This Special Issue invites contributions that address the integration of adaptation and mitigation in urban settings, bridging the gap between theory and practice. It seeks to showcase interdisciplinary approaches, innovative solutions, and case studies that promote resilient, low-carbon urban development.

This Special Issue will explore the integration of climate adaptation and mitigation strategies within urban environments, addressing critical challenges such as urban resilience, resource efficiency, governance coherence, and public health. With urban areas at the forefront of climate change impacts, this Special Issue emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches to promote sustainable, equitable, and healthy urban development in response to the escalating climate crisis.

This Special Issue aligns closely with the scope of Climate by addressing cross-disciplinary themes that are critical to understanding and addressing climate change’s impacts on society. Specifically, it contributes to the journal’s focus in the following areas:

1. Policy Analysis and Implementation: Investigating frameworks and governance mechanisms that integrate climate adaptation and mitigation to enhance urban resilience, sustainability, and health outcomes;
2. Adaptation and Mitigation Synergies: Highlighting innovative, integrative approaches that achieve co-benefits while minimizing trade-offs or conflicts between adaptation, mitigation, and public health goals;
3. Cross-Sectoral Climate Actions: Addressing how cities incorporate climate adaptation and mitigation across sectors, including energy, transport, infrastructure, public health, and nature-based solutions, to create comprehensive urban strategies;
4. Health Impacts, Migration, and Resilience: Exploring how climate change adaptation and mitigation efforts intersect with urban health, such as reducing risks from extreme heat, improving air quality, enhancing access to green spaces, and addressing vulnerabilities exacerbated by climate impacts such as climate migration;
5. Climate Science and Urban Planning: Advancing knowledge on urban systems’ roles in addressing climate change, particularly how scientific insights can inform urban planning and health policies to create low-carbon, climate-resilient, and healthy communities.

By connecting theory, practice, and diverse case studies, this Special Issue not only supports the journal’s mission to foster research at the nexus of climate science, policy, and societal applications but also emphasizes the critical role of health as a core component of sustainable and resilient urban climate action.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

1. Analytical frameworks for integrated climate action in cities;
2. The role of governance and institutional coherence in linking adaptation and mitigation;
3. Nature-based solutions and their dual benefits for adaptation and mitigation;
4. Case studies of climate action plans in cities locally and globally, with an emphasis on trade-offs, synergies, and co-benefits;
5. Financing mechanisms for combined adaptation and mitigation initiatives;
6. Challenges in integrating adaptation and mitigation across different scales;
7. Sustainable urban planning models for health and resource efficiency as well as equitable outcomes.

Contributors are encouraged to submit original research articles, reviews, and case studies that align with the journal’s scope and aim to advance interdisciplinary knowledge in climate adaptation and mitigation.

Dr. Farrukh Chishtie
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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• urban health
• climate change adaptation
• climate change mitigation
• urban resilience
• sustainable urban planning
• governance
• nature-based solutions
• climate finance
• multi-level governance
• urban climate change