Cities, Climate Change, and Public Health: Building Human Resilience to Climate Change at the Local Level

To date, climate adaptation has mostly focused on protecting physical assets from potentially catastrophic climatic changes. While the lack of human vulnerability and equity components in adaptation plans and policies has been critiqued by many, this has not yet led to climate adaptation planning and policymaking processes that situates people’s health and well-being front and center.

This book examines how cities can use a public health frame of climate change to boost people’s understandi...