Resilience trade-offs: addressing multiple scales and temporal aspects of urban resilience

Chelleri, Lorenzo; Waters, James; Olazabal, Marta; Minucci, Guido

doi:10.1177/0956247814550780

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“…Various authors, including Gotham and Campanella (2011) and Pendall et al (2010), argue for consideration of cross-scale interactions in urban policies, such as policy-setting at the local level, e.g., water supply where there is potential to cause impacts beyond the defined geographical boundary. Cross-scale linkages must also be considered from temporal perspectives in enabling the system to deal with future shocks (Pendall et al 2010), address temporal trade-offs, and avoid "lock-in" policies that reduce opportunities for learning and changing (Chelleri et al 2015, Pike et al 2010. Similarly in the DR domain, consideration of resilience in hazardprone mountain SES has extended from localized hazards to the need to develop cross-scale institutional linkages between SES facing similar hazards (Gardner and Dekens 2007), while difficulties of building DR at different spatial and temporal scales, e.g., drought resilience in agricultural areas, to reduce disaster impacts are also acknowledged (Zhou et al 2010).…”

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Interrogating resilience: toward a typology to improve its operationalization

Davidson¹,

Jacobson²,

Lyth³

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ABSTRACT. In the context of accelerated global change, the concept of resilience, with its roots in ecological theory and complex adaptive systems, has emerged as the favored framework for understanding and responding to the dynamics of change. Its transfer from ecological to social contexts, however, has led to the concept being interpreted in multiple ways across numerous disciplines causing significant challenges for its practical application. The aim of this paper is to improve conceptual clarity within resilience thinking so that resilience can be interpreted and articulated in ways that enhance its utility and explanatory power, not only theoretically but also operationally. We argue that the current confusion and ambiguity within resilience thinking is problematic for operationalizing the concept within policy making. To achieve our aim, we interrogate resilience interpretations used within a number of academic and practice domains in the forefront of contending with the disruptive and sometimes catastrophic effects of global change (primarily due to climate change) on ecological and human-nature systems. We demonstrate evolution and convergence among disciplines in the interpretations and theoretical underpinnings of resilience and in engagement with cross-scale considerations. From our analysis, we identify core conceptual elements to be considered in policy responses if resilience is to fulfill its potential in improving decision making for change. We offer an original classification of resilience definitions in current use and a typology of resilience interpretations. We conclude that resilience thinking must be open to alternative traditions and interpretations if it is to become a theoretically and operationally powerful paradigm.

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Section: Treatment Of Cross-scale Interactionsmentioning

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Interrogating resilience: toward a typology to improve its operationalization

Davidson¹,

Jacobson²,

Lyth³

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“…Since that time, the broad goal of urban environmental planning has shifted to an effort to manage "sustainable development" (World Commission on Environment and Development, 1987), which recognized that there are limits to development that involve temporal patterns of resource use and availability, as well as spatial patterns. More recently, the goal of many cities and regions has been to achieve "resilience," or, an ability to recover quickly from disasters such as earthquakes, hurricanes, river flooding, fires, and terrorist attacks (Chelleri, Waters, Olazabal, & Minucci, 2015). Barely a decade old, the concept of "resilience" to temporary events has already begun to be subsumed under the need to engage in permanent adaptation to climate trends.…”

Section: Urban Environmental Planning and Biodiversity: The Us Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Climate Change: Implications for the Assumptions, Goals and Methods of Urban Environmental Planning

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2016

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As a result of increasing awareness of the implications of global climate change, shifts are becoming necessary and apparent in the assumptions, concepts, goals and methods of urban environmental planning. This review will present the argument that these changes represent a genuine paradigm shift in urban environmental planning. Reflection and action to develop this paradigm shift is critical now and in the next decades, because environmental planning for cities will only become more urgent as we enter a new climate period. The concepts, methods and assumptions that urban environmental planners have relied on in previous decades to protect people, ecosystems and physical structures are inadequate if they do not explicitly account for a rapidly changing regional climate context, specifically from a hydrological and ecological perspective. The over-arching concept of spatial suitability that guided planning in most of the 20 th century has already given way to concepts that address sustainability, recognizing the importance of temporality. Quite rapidly, the concept of sustainability has been replaced in many planning contexts by the priority of establishing resilience in the face of extreme disturbance events. Now even this concept of resilience is being incorporated into a novel concept of urban planning as a process of adaptation to permanent, incremental environmental changes. This adaptation concept recognizes the necessity for continued resilience to extreme events, while acknowledging that permanent changes are also occurring as a result of trends that have a clear direction over time, such as rising sea levels. Similarly, the methods of urban environmental planning have relied on statistical data about hydrological and ecological systems that will not adequately describe these systems under a new climate regime. These methods are beginning to be replaced by methods that make use of early warning systems for regime shifts, and process-based quantitative models of regional system behavior that may soon be used to determine acceptable land uses. Finally, the philosophical assumptions that underlie urban environmental planning are changing to address new epistemological, ontological and ethical assumptions that support new methods and goals. The inability to use the past as a guide to the future, new prioritizations of values for adaptation, and renewed efforts to focus on intergenerational justice are provided as examples. In order to represent a genuine paradigm shift, this review argues that changes must begin to be evident across the underlying assumptions, conceptual frameworks, and methods of urban environmental planning, and be attributable to the same root cause. The examples presented here represent the early stages of a change in the overall paradigm of the discipline.

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“…As exemplified by this goal, it is becoming common for concepts such as sustainability and resilience to be used synergistically [3], or interchangeably [4]. However, critical perspectives on these concepts reveal that, for example, resilience per se does not always contribute to systems sustainability [4,5], but implies multiple trade-offs [6] and even social injustices [7,8]. In fact, resilience has sometimes been "manipulated" to reproduce business-as-usual practices and "used as a label to fit conveniently on top of pre-existing agenda" [9].…”

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Are People Responsive to a More Sustainable, Decentralized, and User-Driven Management of Urban Metabolism?

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Smart, green, and resilient city paradigms have been mainly promoted through top-down and technocratic approaches. However, based on the notion to return to "the right to the city", emerging community-driven initiatives are providing self-managed infrastructures contributing to urban sustainability transitions. This paper explores the relevance of the behavioral aspects of people-centered approaches in dealing with two different facets of urban metabolism: physical infrastructure (involvement with the management of decentralized infrastructures) and consumption patterns (involvement in proactive reduction of resources used). In the first case we assessed community perceptions about the roles, benefits, and willingness to proactively engage in the management of decentralized green infrastructures in Bogotá City, Colombia. For the second facet, we measured the effectiveness of change agents in re-shaping energy consumption decisions within urban social networks in South Africa and Saudi Arabia. This paper's results show that pre-determined and standardized strategies do not guarantee positive, nor homogeneous, results in terms of meeting sustainability targets, or promoting community involvement. Hence, a better integration of people-centered and top-down approaches is needed through context-dependent policies, for enhancing both users' appreciation of and commitment to urban metabolism participative management.

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Resilience trade-offs: addressing multiple scales and temporal aspects of urban resilience

Cited by 303 publications

References 64 publications

Interrogating resilience: toward a typology to improve its operationalization

Interrogating resilience: toward a typology to improve its operationalization

Climate Change: Implications for the Assumptions, Goals and Methods of Urban Environmental Planning

Are People Responsive to a More Sustainable, Decentralized, and User-Driven Management of Urban Metabolism?

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