ERL特刊征稿|Focus on Cities and Climate Change: Systematic Reviews and Typologies

特刊详情

客座编辑

• Felix Creutzig，德国波茨坦气候影响研究所
• 蔡闻佳，清华大学
• Radhika Khosla，英国牛津大学
• Debra Roberts，南非夸祖鲁·纳塔尔大学
• Chandni Singh，印度人类住区研究所
• William Solecki，美国纽约市立大学

主题范围

Cities are on the frontline of climate change, simultaneously confronting severe risks and shouldering significant responsibilities for rapid mitigation and adaptive transformations. Urban areas face escalating threats from extreme weather events, heatwaves, flooding, and water scarcity, all intensifying under changing climatic conditions. These risks disproportionately impact vulnerable populations, exacerbating inequalities and challenging urban governance and infrastructure.

Cities also must undertake accelerated, steep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. Urban centers contribute significantly to global emissions through energy consumption, transportation systems, building infrastructures, and waste management practices. Addressing these emissions at the urban scale is essential to align with international climate targets and limit global warming.

Despite substantial research efforts, critical knowledge gaps persist. This Focus Issue aims to systematically address these gaps by systematic reviews and overarching quantitative assessments of:

• Systematic understanding of the case study literature on cities (impacts, adaptation, mitigation, governance, planning vs experiments, health, policy sequencing) that is specific for different world regions;
• Quantitative typologies of cities, both global and specific for world regions;
• Connecting typologies with case study literature;
• Mitigation and adaptation pathways and sequencing; alignment with Paris agreement and NDCs;
• Financing of urban transitions;
• Systematic quantitative evaluation of urban scale mitigation and adaptation (and combined mitigation and adaptation action);
• Co-benefits, well-being and health benefits of mitigation and adaptation actions.

投稿流程

• Stage 1: Expressions of interest submitted via email by 30 September 2025.
  • Open call proposals from the community are strongly encouraged. Authors interested in contributing to the collection should email a proposal for discussion prior to formal submission.
  • Authors interested in contributing a systematic review should complete an ERL review article outline template and email the outline to erl@ioppublishing.org.
  • Authors interested in contributing a quantitative typology should email an article proposal and summary to erl@ioppublishing.org.
• Stage 2: Submission of articles for peer review by 01 March 2026.

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投稿截止日期：2026年3月1日。