Banting Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Environmental Health
Research Fellow

Dr. Chiara Camponeschi is a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow working under the supervision of Dahdaleh Director Dr. James Orbinski. She holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Guelph, where she was a Pierre Elliott Trudeau Scholar. As an interdisciplinary researcher, her work is situated at the intersections of climate action, community engagement and planetary health, and investigates how the principles of wellbeing, solidarity, and care can provide a blueprint for building 'integrative resilience' in ways that are more equitable, inclusive, and just.
Dr. Camponeschi is also the founder of Enabling City, an international organization devoted to stimulating new imaginaries for transformative social change. She is the author of two popular publications, Enabling City Volumes 1 and 2, that are available in 5 languages, and has spoken at events such as the White House GreenGov Symposium in Washington, D.C., the ICLEI Resilience Cities conference in Germany, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities' Sustainable Communities conference, as well as the inaugural South by Southwest Eco conference in Austin, Texas.
Recent Publications:
- Camponeschi, C. (2022a) Toward Integrative Resilience: A Trauma-Informed and Healing Justice Approach to Urban Climate Resilience. Cities & Health. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2022.2099673
- Camponeschi, C. (2022b) The Resilience of Urban Entrepreneurialism: Challenging the 'Neoliberal Turn' of Municipal Climate Planning. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/23996544221117942
- Camponeschi, C. (2022c) Integrative Resilience in Action: Stories from the Frontlines of Climate Change and the Covid-19 Pandemic. Front. Sustain. Cities Special Issue “Adapting Cities for Transformative Climate Resilience: Lessons from the Field”. DOI: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsc.2022.933501/full
- Camponeschi, C. (2021). Narratives of Vulnerability and Resilience: An Investigation of the Climate Plans of New York City and Copenhagen. Geoforum. 123: 78-88. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.05.001
- Acuto, M., Larcom, S., Keil, R., Ghojeh, M., Lindsay, T., Camponeschi, C., and Parnell, S. (2020). Seeing COVID-19 through an Urban Lens. Nature Sustainability. 3: 977-978. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-020-00620-3
- Camponeschi, C. (2018). Case Study 16.C: Democratizing Urban Resilience in Antofagasta, Chile. Climate Change and Cities: Second Assessment Report of the Urban Climate Change Research Network (UCCRN), Cambridge University Press. 2:1. https://uccrn.ei.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/pubs/Annex-5-Case-Study-Annex-ARC3.2-Full-Final-PDF-8-wecompress.com_.pdf
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