With increasing impacts of climate change, settlements of all sizes are considering how to make their communities more resilient to climate risk . In many settlements, demands for heightened resiliency are being coupled with opportunities to enhance the social and economic equity and quality of life of residents. Transformational adaptation  and associated adjustments to the urban risk management decision-making require an integration of climate resiliency pathways and conditions of sustainable development . At the same time, growing conflict is present between requirements for greater resiliency and continued economic development, in particular in low-income environments . Cities and their residents have the capacity to transform their own governance and decision-making systems . Furthermore, cities have recognised the opportunity and demand to transform in order to be more ambitious  and more successful, more equitable  and better able to connect the climate action to the sustainable development process .
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Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
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