Integrating resilience with urban sustainability in neglected neighborhoods: Challenges and opportunities of transitioning to decentralized water management in Mexico City

Chelleri, Lorenzo; Schuetze, Thorsten; Salvati, Luca

doi:10.1016/j.habitatint.2015.03.016

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“…It is imperative to define well what needs to be assessed and what would be included in the assessment. In most cases sustainability and resilience have been approached in isolation, and only a few studies the last few years have looked at their synergies, overlaps and complementarities [17,18,47]. As discussed also in the section of the literature review, there are sectoral approaches to urban sustainability covering only specific urban sectors, but also holistic approaches that aim to integrate the sustainability aspects of multiple sectors.…”

Section: Sustainability Dimensions and Resilience Coveragementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Stakeholders can be involved in different phases of sustainability assessment by: (1) defining and redefining the sustainability objectives and targets; (2) providing and periodically re-constructing their preferences and values with regard to the importance (weights) of sustainability criteria; and (3) providing feedback either as users or co-developers of the sustainability assessment process. Moreover, different authors have emphasized how the participation of different stakeholders in the decision-making can by itself lead to the enhancement of resilience [17,18].…”

Section: Participation and Learningmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…There are strong reasons to integrate the two concepts in urban management and planning processes and agendas and also to explore how they can be assessed and applied together in practice through tools and guidelines [17,18]. In the urban environment and in the context of sustainable development, this integration would provide the essential ability to capitalize on the development and sustainability benefits that the urban system has achieved so far.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, one of the main challenges for sustainable and resilient interventions seems to be political understanding and commitment [17]. Consequently, interventions that aim to contribute to the progress in sustainable development need to be tailored to the particular challenges and opportunities identified and prioritized by cities' stakeholders in concert with their expected multiple benefits and impacts.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Considering the current emerging demographic, urbanization and climatic trends, integrating sustainability and resilience principles into urban development becomes a key priority for decision-makers worldwide. Local and national governments, project developers and other urban stakeholders dealing with the complexities of urban development need projects with clear structure and outcomes in order to inform decision-making and ensure sources of financing. The need for developing an integrated assessment methodology that would capture and quantify multiple urban sustainability and resilience benefits of projects in one common framework and eventually lead to verifiable sustainability and resilience outcomes is immense and challenging at the same time. The main objective of this paper is to present the development of a methodological approach that aims to integrate sustainability and resilience benefits, derived from the implementation of green growth urban projects, into a unified framework of criteria addressing environmental, social, economic and institutional perspectives. The proposed sustainability and resilience benefits assessment (SRBA) methodology is a combination of top down and bottom up approaches, including GIS-based scenario building. The different types of sustainability and resilience benefits of urban green growth projects are also identified at different levels (i.e., individual, neighborhood, city and global). Moreover, the proposed methodology creates scenarios that can be illustrated by a map-based approach to enable a better illustration and visualization of benefits. It demonstrates how a map-based approach can assess not only the extent of sustainability and resilience benefits accrued (how much is benefitted), but also their spatial distribution (who is benefitted). The main methodological challenges and issues on developing an integrated sustainability and resilience benefits assessment are identified and discussed.

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“…Here redundancies may be particularly helpful when sought in planning and decision-making processes (Chelleri, et al, 2015;Schlüter and Pahl-Wostl, 2007). Moving from centralised decision-making approaches to decentralised, multi-level or even polycentric approaches allows to make use of the tacit knowledge of actors and organisations closest to the problem that may result in or has resulted in a disaster (Collier, et al, 2013;Homsey and Warner, 2015).…”

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The city politics of an urban age: urban resilience conceptualisations and policies

2018

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Around the globe, cities seek to improve their resilience to face the stresses and shocks that are expected from global climate change and other threats. In implementing urban resilience policies, they are guided by different urban resilience conceptualisations. What is meant by the concept differs between scholars, governments, as well as international organisations that seek to study, advise on and implement urban resilience policies and governance interventions. This article presents a review of the urban resilience literature since the 1970s. It seeks to map and interrogate dominant urban resilience conceptualisations, and decipher whether and how different understandings of the concept can result in essentially different policies and governance interventions and outcomes. In contrasting the 'what' of urban resilience (various conceptualisations) with the 'why' of urban resilience policy (bouncing back, falling forwards, persistence) it investigates approaches to overcome some of the key critiques to urban resilience policy and research.

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Seeking (desperately) for gentrification? Population change, immigration and economic recovery in a Mediterranean city

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Urban dynamics in European Mediterranean countries reflect a mosaic of responses to different economic impulses. Suspended between suburbanisation and reurbanisation, socio‐economic development in Southern Europe outlines a possible ‘Mediterranean’ path to gentrification that deserves further investigation. By considering together population, housing, business dynamics and specific aspects of life quality, we developed a quali‐quantitative analysis of urban dynamics and gentrification processes in postcrisis Athens, Greece. The political side of gentrification, informal planning and the difficulty to stabilise a nexus with inner city rehabilitation accounts for the heterogeneous outcomes of urban transformations in Southern Europe. In such contexts, inner city gentrification was interpreted as an informal process consolidating a social mix similar to the most advanced cities in Western Europe. Our study delineates a Mediterranean perspective to inner city gentrification, reconnecting these processes with more general socio‐economic conditions, and demonstrates the intrinsic advantage of quali‐quantitative assessments of gentrification patterns and processes in urban Europe. A refined knowledge of these processes—also in light of more recent urban crises (e.g., driven by the pandemic challenge)—finally provides an interpretative key for a better management of inner city gentrification, not only in advanced economies but also in emerging (or peripheral) contexts.

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Integrating resilience with urban sustainability in neglected neighborhoods: Challenges and opportunities of transitioning to decentralized water management in Mexico City

Cited by 130 publications

References 37 publications

Towards the Development of an Integrated Sustainability and Resilience Benefits Assessment Framework of Urban Green Growth Interventions

Towards the Development of an Integrated Sustainability and Resilience Benefits Assessment Framework of Urban Green Growth Interventions

The city politics of an urban age: urban resilience conceptualisations and policies

Seeking (desperately) for gentrification? Population change, immigration and economic recovery in a Mediterranean city

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