Mapping (for) resilience across city scales: An opportunity to open-up conversations for more inclusive resilience policy?

Borie, Maud; Ziervogel, Gina; Taylor, Faith E.; Millington, James D.A.; Sitas, Rike; Pelling, Mark

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2019.05.014

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“…In an inclusive city, social, economic, and environmental inclusion is highlighted to offer a pathway to enhance the overall "urban sustainability," not an optimization on a single dimension. However, in the realistic decision-making on urban management, how the three dimensions are interlinked and mutually affected is usually neglected [54][55][56].…”

Section: Circular Economy Sustainable Development Goals (Sdgs) and mentioning

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Match Circular Economy and Urban Sustainability: Re-investigating Circular Economy Under Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

2021

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The concept of circular economy (CE) offers an innovative and systematical approach to address a number of urban sustainability issues, via exploring symbiotic ways to design circular urban systems and optimizing the materials and energy metabolism of cities, so as to mitigate environmental footprints. Urban sustainability is highlighted as a critical issue in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) proposed by United Nations; hence, in nature, circular economy could offer a number of solutions towards SDGs in urban scope. As trade-offs, circular economy also potentially causes negative impacts to business-asusual scenario, which is easily to be ignored. To highlight this scientific issue, this paper identified and matched the role of circular economy in realizing 17 SDGs in urban scope. How circular economy strategy could potentially affect the SDGs, whether positive or negative, were comprehensively evaluated. We expect such findings could support an equilibrium decision-making on circular economy promotion in cities, rather than an optimum solution to a single target under the triple bottom line of sustainability.

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Section: Circular Economy Sustainable Development Goals (Sdgs) and mentioning

confidence: 99%

Match Circular Economy and Urban Sustainability: Re-investigating Circular Economy Under Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

2021

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“…Over the past two decades, the concept of urban resilience has become key to local and global development agendas. While scholars critique the concept's fuzziness and the need for context-dependent interpretations and applications [1][2][3][4], it has become increasingly employed by policymakers, practitioners, and international and multilateral aid agencies and institutions [5].…”

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Localizing the Sustainable Development Goals Through the Lens of Urban Resilience: Lessons and Learnings from 100 Resilient Cities and Cape Town

2020

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Urban resilience is increasingly seen as essential to managing the risks and challenges arising in a globally changing, connected, and urbanized world. Hence, cities are central to achieving a range of global development policy commitments adopted over the past few years, ranging from the Paris Climate Agreement to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, knowledge of the ways in which cities are going about implementing resilience or of how such efforts can practically contribute to the implementation of global agendas is still limited. This paper discusses the experience of cities that were members of the 100 Resilient Cities (100RC) network, an entity pioneered by The Rockefeller Foundation. It reviews the resilience strategies developed by 100RC members to show that 100RC cities are increasingly aligning their resilience work to global development policies such as the SDGs. It then draws on the case of the city of Cape Town in South Africa to illustrate the process of developing a resilience strategy through 100RC tools and methodologies including the City Resilience Framework (CRF) and City Resilience Index (CRI) and its alignment to the SDGs and reflects on lessons and learnings of Cape Town’s experience for the global city network-policy nexus post-2015.

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“…The use of resilience, whether it is for advancing theory, designing or implementing policies, or undertaking resilience-building activities, is not neutral. Many questions relating to urban governance and resilience initiatives are linked to questions around justice and ethics (Allen et al 2017;Ziervogel et al 2017;Borie et al 2019). The normative nature of resilience requires that narratives on urban resilience and the intended outcomes that are envisioned through them, need to be negotiated through deliberative platforms that are cognisant of power asymmetries.…”

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“…C40 Cities initiative), research and policy still largely work within disciplinary or sectoral silos and limited resources are available to address research-policy-implementation divides, impeding further development progress. Furthermore, one of the biggest challenges for sustainable, resilient and equitable development is addressing the dire power asymmetries evident in urban areas across the globe and a need to 'put the last, first' (Ravera et al 2016;Borie et al 2019;Görgens and Ziervogel 2019).…”

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Towards Equitable Urban Resilience in the Global South Within a Context of Planning and Management

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Over the last decade, the need to advance urban resilience research and practice has been emphasised, especially for safeguarding important ecosystem services that are critical for human wellbeing in and around cities. The pace and scale of changes in the Anthropocene make this imperative even more pressing, especially within the context of rapid urbanisation, infrastructure deficits and rising inequalities in the Global South. In this chapter, we contribute to these advances by highlighting the value of taking a social-ecological resilience approach to understanding the contested nature of urban resilience from multiple perspectives. We discuss important principles for exploring and building resilience and how these principles can be used within the context of urban resilience using two examples from the Global South. This chapter also outlines how an intersectionality approach can advance conceptualisation and implementation of resilience by focusing explicitly on how power mediates certain relationships and interdependencies in socialecological systems. Foregrounding the role of power can assist with better understanding the opportunities for adaptation and transformation and 'putting the last, first' in resilience research and practice. We conclude by exploring some key gaps, blindspots and opportunities for a research-action agenda for urban resilience going forward.

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Mapping (for) resilience across city scales: An opportunity to open-up conversations for more inclusive resilience policy?

Cited by 32 publications

References 49 publications

Match Circular Economy and Urban Sustainability: Re-investigating Circular Economy Under Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Match Circular Economy and Urban Sustainability: Re-investigating Circular Economy Under Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Localizing the Sustainable Development Goals Through the Lens of Urban Resilience: Lessons and Learnings from 100 Resilient Cities and Cape Town

Towards Equitable Urban Resilience in the Global South Within a Context of Planning and Management

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