Hunter College, City University of New York, New York, NY 10065, USA; email:
The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY 10016, USA; email:
Annu Rev Public Health. 2021 Apr 1;42:211-232. doi: 10.1146/annurev-publhealth-090419-102302. Epub 2021 Jan 11.
With accelerating climate change, US coastal communities are experiencing increased flood risk intensity, resulting from accelerated sea level rise and stronger storms. These conditions place pressure on municipalities and local residents to consider a range of new disaster risk reduction programs, climate resilience initiatives, and in some cases transformative adaptation strategies (e.g., managed retreat and relocation from highly vulnerable, low-elevation locations). Researchers have increasingly understood that these climate risks and adaptation actions have significant impacts on the quality of life, well-being, and mental health of urban coastal residents. We explore these relationships and define conditions under which adaptation practices will affect communities and residents. Specifically, we assess climate and environmental stressors, community change, and well-being by utilizing the growing climate change literature and the parallel social science literature on risk and hazards, environmental psychology, and urban geography work, heretofore not widely integrated into work on climate adaptation.
随着气候变化的加速，美国沿海社区正面临着日益加剧的洪水风险，这是由海平面加速上升和更强风暴导致的。这些情况给市政府和当地居民带来了压力，需要考虑一系列新的减少灾害风险方案、气候适应力倡议，在某些情况下，还需要采取变革性的适应战略（例如，从高度脆弱、低海拔地区进行有管理的撤离和搬迁）。研究人员越来越认识到，这些气候风险和适应行动对城市沿海居民的生活质量、福祉和心理健康产生了重大影响。我们探讨了这些关系，并确定了适应实践将如何影响社区和居民的条件。具体来说，我们利用不断增长的气候变化文献以及关于风险和危害、环境心理学和城市地理学工作的平行社会科学文献，评估了气候和环境压力、社区变化和福祉，迄今为止，这些文献尚未广泛纳入气候适应工作。
