“Shared learning” for building urban climate resilience – experiences from Asian cities

Reed, Sarah Orleans; Friend, Richard; Toan, Vu Canh; Thinphanga, Pakamas; Sutarto, Ratri; Singh, Dilip Kr

doi:10.1177/0956247813501136

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“…An extensive literature on the governance of urban adaptation in the global south has emerged over the past decade focusing on governance and political configurations (Bahadur & Tanner, 2014;Bulkeley & Betsill, 2005), the role of planning and innovative approaches (Carmin et al, 2012;Chu, 2016;Fisher, 2014;Hurlimann & March, 2012), and underlying drivers of urban vulnerability, particularly as these are shaped by informality (Satterthwaite & Dodman, 2013). However, there has been limited application of social learning itself so far although a notable exception has been a recent network of small to medium-sized cities using shared learning dialogues (SLDs) and iterative cycles with stakeholders, the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN; see Archer, Colenbrander, & Dodman, 2017;Kernaghan & da Silva, 2014;Orleans Reed et al, 2013;Tyler & Moench, 2012). However, particularly in the global south, adaptation has increasingly been conceptualised through an urban resilience lens, a holistic approach that sees addressing urban systems, urban agents, and urban institutions as being critical elements (Tyler & Moench, 2012).…”

Section: Urban Adaptation As Social Learningmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These are used because of their perceived benefits in developing and implementing processes for more sustained and effective shared understanding and decision making. However, there has been limited application of social learning itself so far although a notable exception has been a recent network of small to medium-sized cities using shared learning dialogues (SLDs) and iterative cycles with stakeholders, the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN; see Archer, Colenbrander, & Dodman, 2017;Kernaghan & da Silva, 2014;Orleans Reed et al, 2013;Tyler & Moench, 2012). The literature on urban adaptation governance in the global south consistently identifies challenges such as inclusion, equity, and barriers to change and innovation within bureaucratic and fragmented local governance systems, it has rarely gone beyond noting these processes to breaking down these challenges into theoretically observable and therefore researchable (and actionable) phenomena.…”

Section: Urban Adaptation As Social Learningmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Urban climate change adaptation as social learning: Exploring the process and politics

Fisher

Dodman²

2019

Env Pol Gov

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Responses to climate change that build on adaptive natural resource management conceptualise social learning processes as having the potential to form a key component of climate adaptation. Social learning processes represent a way of managing the inherent uncertainties and interconnectedness of adaptation issues through ongoing learning, iterative reflection, and change of responses over time. Although the theoretical case is emerging for social learning as adaptation, there is limited empirical evidence of how these processes play out as local governments engage in urban adaptation planning. This paper starts to address this gap by examining social learning processes in two cities in India. We show how the social learning processes interact with complex governance contexts in the two cities and how evidence of outcomes is emerging across individuals, networks, and systems. We go on to argue that there are several areas of social learning that need further theorisation to support its application in the urban context. First, theories of social learning need to allow for unequal power relationships to continue to shape learning processes and take into account structural and historical dynamics as well as relational forms of power. Second, the way that scale is understood needs to be reopened as a point of analysis to understand how scalar concepts are used by actors to frame and locate problems and solutions rather than being understood as fixed and immutable.

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Section: Urban Adaptation As Social Learningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Urban Adaptation As Social Learningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban climate change adaptation as social learning: Exploring the process and politics

Fisher

Dodman²

2019

Env Pol Gov

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“…Sharing learning approaches helps to establish or strengthen networking among different stakeholders at different spatial scales. However, this may face considerable challenges -political, institutional, environmental -in which the nature and value of building urban resilience is contested (Orleans Reed et al, 2013).…”

Section: Method: Principles For Planning Resilient City Regionsmentioning

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Planning Green Infrastructure as a Source of Urban and Regional Resilience – Towards Institutional Challenges

Schiappacasse¹,

Müller²

2015

Urbani izziv

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Green infrastructure programmes and strategies are regarded as planning opportunities to promote sustainable and resilient urban development. However, the discourse about green infrastructure policy and its effectiveness has pointed to the limited success in practical implementation. Since the green infrastructure has no planning status in its own right, it depends on being embedded in comprehensive urban and regional planning approaches if it is to have an impact on sustainable and resilient urban development. At the same time spatial planning may contribute to providing a platform for its institutionalisation. Against this backdrop, the article first looks at the contents of urban resilience. Secondly, we discuss principles for planning resilient cities. Thirdly, we analyse how green infrastructure initiatives can foster these principles contributing to building urban and regional resilience. Fourthly, we discuss the challenges facing the institutionalisation of green infrastructure initiatives. Finally, we draw conclusions about the future role of spatial planning in the process of institutionalising green infrastructure strategies.

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“…In the literature focused on transdisciplinary research and participatory approaches, many pragmatic arguments are presented for the engagement of stakeholders in climate change adaptation, for example [28,[46][47][48]. Reed (2008) and Ross et al (2015) speak of democratic rights and social justice reasons for local communities to participate in any processes concerning their own futures.…”

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Participatory Climate Change Impact Assessment in Three Czech Cities: The Case of Heatwaves

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Abstract:Cities are complex socioecological systems that are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and are also exposed to other trends, such as urbanization and population aging. Due to the changing climate, days with extreme temperatures are expected to become more numerous, which is particularly important for urban areas, where the urban heat island phenomenon is observed. This study presents an example of a spatially explicit potential climate change impact assessment of heatwaves integrating both science and stakeholder participation for three large Czech cities (Prague, Brno, and Pilsen). Stakeholder participation exercises were used to prioritize climate change risks, provide impetus and opportunity for knowledge co-production, and support adaptation planning. Potential climate change impacts of heatwaves in the three Czech cities for the current baseline and for the future (2021-2040) using Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs)-RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5, were mapped at two levels describing "in-city" and "inter-city" comparison. When comparing the potential impact of heatwaves across the three cities ("inter-city"), the most affected city is Brno, with 10.5% of its area in the very high impact category for the baseline and both RCPs. The "in-city" comparison shows the differences between the baseline and future scenarios of each city. The assessment of heatwaves' impacts was further used to support urban adaptation planning.

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“Shared learning” for building urban climate resilience – experiences from Asian cities

Cited by 67 publications

References 40 publications

Urban climate change adaptation as social learning: Exploring the process and politics

Urban climate change adaptation as social learning: Exploring the process and politics

Planning Green Infrastructure as a Source of Urban and Regional Resilience – Towards Institutional Challenges

Participatory Climate Change Impact Assessment in Three Czech Cities: The Case of Heatwaves

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