Bridging community resilience and local planning for climate justice

As the effects of climate change increase, and as the federal government deprioritizes climate action, local governments must grapple with the complex challenge of enhancing resilience. Despite the importance of local-scale planning and finance for equitable climate resilience, the knowledge needed to support such efforts is poorly defined. We outline four challenge areas and corresponding priority considerations: capacity and governance, adaptation and recovery, funding mechanisms, and data and methodological needs. By strengthening knowledge and partnerships in each of these areas, scholars, policymakers, and practitioners can better support communities to respond to and recover from the effects of a changing climate.

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Climate Risk Management
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2025-12-02
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2025.100776
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Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
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Abstract

As the effects of climate change increase, and as the federal government deprioritizes climate action, local governments must grapple with the complex challenge of enhancing resilience. Despite the importance of local-scale planning and finance for equitable climate resilience, the knowledge needed to support such efforts is poorly defined. We outline four challenge areas and corresponding priority considerations: capacity and governance, adaptation and recovery, funding mechanisms, and data and methodological needs. By strengthening knowledge and partnerships in each of these areas, scholars, policymakers, and practitioners can better support communities to respond to and recover from the effects of a changing climate.

Climate Risk ManagementVol. 51
University of Maryland, Baltimore (US), National Institute of Standards and Technology (US), University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (US), University of South Carolina (US), Urban Institute (US), Saint Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering (RU), Purdue University West Lafayette (US), Princeton Public Schools (US), Resources For The Future (US), University of Illinois Chicago (US), Geodetic Institute of Slovenia (SI), Geographical Institute (HU), Palo Alto Institute (US), Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (US), Rowan University (US), Arizona State University (US), University of Maryland, College Park (US), University of Delaware (US), Stanford University (US)
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