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Overview

William Solecki is affiliated with the City University of New York in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on Environmental Science and Social Sciences, with significant contributions in the subfields of Sociology and Political Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
  • Disaster Management and Resilience
  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
  • Climate Change impacts on agriculture

William Solecki has contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • Understanding human vulnerability to climate change: A global perspective on index validation for adaptation planning (2021, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • Advancing equitable health and well-being across urban-rural sustainable infrastructure systems (2021, npj Urban Sustainability)
  • Enhancing New York City's resilience to sea level rise and increased coastal flooding (2020, Urban Climate)
  • Integration of urban science and urban climate adaptation research: opportunities to advance climate action (2023, npj Urban Sustainability)
  • Strengthening resilience in reconstruction after extreme events - Insights from flood affected communities in Germany (2023, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Solecki include:

  • Debra Roberts
  • Cynthia Rosenzweig
  • Edmond Totin
  • Joern Birkmann
  • Ali Jamshed

Publications have been frequently placed in these venues:

  • npj Urban Sustainability
  • Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
  • Nature Climate Change

In addition to articles, William Solecki has published books through Cambridge University Press, including:

  • Learning from COVID-19 for Climate-Ready Urban Transformation (2025)
  • Justice for Resilient Development in Climate-Stressed Cities (2025)
  • Cities and Environmental Change (2025)

Best Publications

  • The roads ahead: Narratives for shared socioeconomic pathways describing world futures in the 21st century

    Brian C. O'Neill;Elmar Kriegler;Kristie L. Ebi;Eric Kemp-Benedict

  • Cities lead the way in climate–change action

    Cynthia Rosenzweig;William Solecki;Stephen A. Hammer;Shagun Mehrotra

  • New York, USA

    Radley Horton;Michael Dorsch;Lesley Patrick;Stephen Solecki

  • Mitigation of the heat island effect in urban New Jersey

    William D. Solecki;Cynthia Rosenzweig;Lily Parshall;Greg Pope

  • Climate Change and Cities: First Assessment Report of the Urban Climate Change Research Network

    Cynthia Rosenzweig;William D. Solecki;Stephen A. Hammer;Shagun Mehrotra

  • Hurricane Sandy and Adaptation Pathways in New York: Lessons from a First-Responder City

    Cynthia Rosenzweig;Cynthia Rosenzweig;William Solecki

  • Developing coastal adaptation to climate change in the New York City infrastructure-shed: process, approach, tools, and strategies

    Cynthia Rosenzweig;William D. Solecki;Reginald Blake;Malcolm Bowman

  • Understanding human vulnerability to climate change: A global perspective on index validation for adaptation planning.

    Joern Birkmann;Ali Jamshed;Joanna M. McMillan;Daniel Feldmeyer

  • Towards transformative adaptation in cities: the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment:

    Aromar Revi;David Satterthwaite;Fernando Aragón-Durand;Jan Corfee-Morlot

  • Climate change adaptation strategies and disaster risk reduction in cities: Connections, contentions, and synergies

    William Solecki;Robin Leichenko;Karen O’Brien

  • Characterizing the urban heat island in current and future climates in New Jersey

    Cynthia Rosenzweig;William D. Solecki;Lily Parshall;Mark Chopping

  • Downscaling climate change scenarios in an urban land use change model.

    William D Solecki;Charles Oliveri

  • Boost resilience of small and mid-sized cities.

    Joern Birkmann;Torsten Welle;William Solecki;Shuaib Lwasa

  • Urban parks: green spaces or green walls?

    William D. Solecki;Joan M. Welch

  • Estimating the Effects of Increased Urbanization on Surface Meteorology and Ozone Concentrations in the New York City Metropolitan Region

    Kevin Civerolo;Christian Hogrefe;Barry Lynn;Barry Lynn;Joyce Rosenthal

  • Social science perspectives on drivers of and responses to global climate change.

    Andrew K. Jorgenson;Shirley Fiske;Klaus Hubacek;Jia Li

  • Critical Surveys Edited by STEPHEN ROPER

    Robin M. Leichenko;William D. Solecki

  • Mitigating New York City's Heat Island: Integrating Stakeholder Perspectives and Scientific Evaluation

    Cynthia Rosenzweig;William D. Solecki;Lily Parshall;Barry Lynn

  • It's Time for an Urbanization Science

    William Solecki;Karen C. Seto;Peter J. Marcotullio

  • Climate Change and the Global Financial Crisis: A Case of Double Exposure

    Robin M. Leichenko;Karen L. O’Brien;William D. Solecki

  • The Routledge Handbook of Urbanization and Global Environmental Change

    Karen Ching-Yee Seto;William Solecki;Corrie Griffith

Frequent Co-Authors

Cynthia Rosenzweig
Cynthia Rosenzweig Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Radley M. Horton
Radley M. Horton Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Patrick L. Kinney
Patrick L. Kinney Boston University
Mark Pelling
Mark Pelling King's College London
Joern Birkmann
Joern Birkmann University of Stuttgart
Christian Hogrefe
Christian Hogrefe Environmental Protection Agency
Eduardo S. Brondizio
Eduardo S. Brondizio Indiana University
Barry Lynn
Barry Lynn Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Gary W. Yohe
Gary W. Yohe Wesleyan University
Susan L. Cutter
Susan L. Cutter University of South Carolina

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