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来源

ENVIRONMENT AND URBANIZATION,Vol.29,Issue1,P.159-182

语言

英文

关键字

adaptation; assessment; climate change; environmental justice; equality; equity; gender; impacts; low-income; mitigation; poverty; socioeconomic; women; DISASTER RISK REDUCTION; SOLID-WASTE MANAGEMENT; SOUTH-AFRICA; CHANGE ADAPTATION; DEVELOPING-COUNTRIES

作者单位

[Reckien, Diana] Univ Twente, Climate Change, Enschede, Netherlands. [Creutzig, Felix] Mercator Res Inst Global Commons & Climate Change, Working Grp Land Use Infrastruct & Transport, Berlin, Germany. [Creutzig, Felix] Tech Univ Berlin, Dept Econ Climate Change, Berlin, Germany. [Fernandez, Blanca] Mercator Res Inst Global Commons & Climate Change, Land Use Infrastruct & Transport Grp, Berlin, Germany. [Lwasa, Shuaib] Makerere Univ, Dept Geog, Kampala, Uganda. [Lwasa, Shuaib] Makerere Univ, Urban Act Innovat Lab, Kampala, Uganda. [Tovar-Restrepo, Marcela] Columbia Univ, Grad Sch Architecture Planning & Preservat, New York, NY USA. [Tovar-Restrepo, Marcela] Womens Environm & Dev Org WEDO NY, Board Directors, New York, NY USA. [McEvoy, Darryn] RMIT Univ, Urban Resilience & Climate Change Adaptat, Melbourne, Vic, Australia. [Satterthwaite, David] Int Inst Environm Dev, London, England. [Satterthwaite, David] UCL, Dev Planning Unit, London, England. Reckien, D (reprint author), Univ Twente, Dept Urban & Reg Planning & Geoinformat Managemen, Fac Geoinformat Sci & Earth Observat ITC, POB 217, NL-7500 AE Enschede, Netherlands. E-Mail: d.reckien@utwente.nl; creutzig@mcc-berlin.net; Fernandez@mcc-berlin.net; lwasa_s@arts.mak.ac.ug; mt2900@columbia.edu; darryn.mcevoy@rmit.edu.au; david.satterthwaite@iied.org

摘要

Climate change is acknowledged as the largest threat to our societies in the coming decades, potentially affecting large and diverse groups of urban residents in this century of urbanization. As urban areas house highly diverse people with differing vulnerabilities, intensifying climate change is likely to shift the focus of discussions from a general urban perspective to who in cities will be affected by climate change, and how. This brings the urban equity question to the forefront. Here we assess how climate change events may amplify urban inequity. We find that heatwaves, but also flooding, landslides, and even mitigation and adaptation measures, affect specific population groups more than others. As underlying sensitivity factors we consistently identify socioeconomic status and gender. We synthesize the findings with regard to equity types - meaning outcome-based, process-oriented and context-related equity - and suggest solutions for avoiding increased equity and justice concerns as a result of climate change impacts, adaptation and mitigation.