loading . . . Collection policies | Polycrisis Challenges and Options for Equitable Climate Action in Cities This collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 10 - Reduced inequalities, SDG 11 - Sustainable cities and communities, and SDG 13 Climate action. The world is witnessing a polycrisis, an intersection of crises, encompassing climate change, environmental degradation, biodiversity collapse, species extinction, widening inequalities, polarization, and political turmoil. Cities are centers of the polycrises, yet are also centers of growth and innovation, and also of civic engagement, holding the potential to create a massive impetus for positive change in this unsettling and uncertain world. The pursuit of growth, often associated with global development, urbanization and urban-land teleconnections, drives and worsens critical dimensions of the polycrisis, such as climate change, inequities in participation, access to benefits and protection from harm. It shapes globalized, interconnected economic, social, or digital systems that exacerbate cosmopolitan injustices within and between urban and rural areas of the global North and South. Cities are also increasingly, unevenly affected by the cascading effects of the polycrisis, which fall most heavily on those least able to protect themselves, e.g., low income, Indigenous, ethnic, and other marginalized populations, who are least responsible, yet most at risk from its impacts, and most likely to be excluded from decision-making. Urban... https://www.nature.com/collections/dgebhcdaie/collection-policies
