{"id":3961,"date":"2013-01-22T11:39:04","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T16:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/citings\/?p=3961"},"modified":"2013-01-22T11:39:04","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T16:39:04","slug":"cities-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2013\/01\/22\/cities-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"The Urbanite&#8217;s Guide to Surviving Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3966\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3966\" style=\"width: 311px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/neotint\/8194074947\/in\/photostream\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3966 \" title=\"Occupy Sandy Wayfinding\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/citings\/files\/2013\/01\/Occupy-Sandy-Wayfinding.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"311\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2013\/01\/Occupy-Sandy-Wayfinding.jpg 444w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2013\/01\/Occupy-Sandy-Wayfinding-266x300.jpg 266w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 311px) 100vw, 311px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3966\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the wake of Superstorm Sandy, Occupy Wall Street shifted its efforts to neighborhood-level storm relief. Image via Daniel Latorre via flickr.com.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Like Hurricane Katrina and other natural disasters affecting urban areas, Superstorm Sandy reminded many that U.S. cities are unprepared for the effects of climate change. According to sociologist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sociology.as.nyu.edu\/object\/ericklinenberg.html\">Eric Klinenberg<\/a>\u00a0in a recent issue of\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2013\/01\/07\/130107fa_fact_klinenberg\">The New Yorker<\/a><\/em>, the U.S. lags far behind other countries in \u201cclimate-proofing,\u201d or investing in infrastructural developments that will protect cities and their inhabitants from increasingly-severe natural disasters and rising water levels.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond investing in physical infrastructure, preparing for and surviving climate change, Klinenberg writes, will involve \u201crecognizing the importance of social infrastructure: the people, places, and institutions that foster cohesion and support.\u201d Harvard sociologist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.harvard.edu\/sampson\/\">Robert J. Sampson<\/a>\u00a0has emphasized the importance of strong social ties during natural disasters. In their research on the 1995 Chicago heat wave that killed over 700 people, Klinenberg and Sampson found that neighborhoods with a strong sense of community and many churches and civic organizations\u2014neighborhoods where people look out for one another\u2014fare better when disaster strikes.<\/p>\n<p>Although infrastructure investment and development play a major role in mitigating the effects of climate change, it may well prove that \u201ccivil society will ultimately determine which people and places will withstand the emerging threats from climate change.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like Hurricane Katrina and other natural disasters affecting urban areas, Superstorm Sandy reminded many that U.S. cities are unprepared for the effects of climate change. According to sociologist\u00a0Eric Klinenberg\u00a0in a recent issue of\u00a0The New Yorker, the U.S. lags far behind other countries in \u201cclimate-proofing,\u201d or investing in infrastructural developments that will protect cities and their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1887,"featured_media":3966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[463,833,17300,17302,2792,447,17303],"class_list":["post-3961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sightings","tag-cities","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-proofing","tag-eric-klinenberg","tag-global-warming","tag-new-yorker","tag-robert-sampson"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2013\/01\/Occupy-Sandy-Wayfinding.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1887"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3961"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3971,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3961\/revisions\/3971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}