Avoid urban development policy that fuels climate risk

Sumit Agarwal, Mingxuan Fan and Yu Qin ()
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Sumit Agarwal: National University of Singapore
Mingxuan Fan: National University of Singapore
Yu Qin: National University of Singapore

Nature Climate Change, 2025, vol. 15, issue 8, 804-805

Abstract: Urban development policies, designed to improve city resilience, could unintentionally increase the exposure to climate risk. This Comment discusses the impact of misaligned incentives, miscalculated benefits and costs, and overlooked behavioural responses on policy outcomes, as well as future directions.

Date: 2025
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