Sustainability and resilience in the built environment: The challenges of establishing a turquoise agenda in the UK

Lizarralde, Gonzalo; Chmutina, Ksenia; Bosher, Lee S.; Dainty, Andrew R.J.

doi:10.1016/j.scs.2014.12.004

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“…In practice, governments and other institutions have adopted the term in policy documents and strategic plans aiming at enhancing resilience in the built environment and society. However, lack of commonly accepted definitions and models has inevitably led to tensions in decisionmaking and intense debates in academic literature Lizarralde et al, 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

Unpacking resilience policy discourse

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Unpacking resilience policy discourse

Chmutina

Lizarralde

Dainty

et al. 2016

Cities

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“…In this context, resilience is strongly linked to disaster risk reduction, vulnerability reduction and sustainable development [43,44]. In fact, sustainability and resilience approaches are often compared in the CC domain as they share the adoption of a dynamic systems approach, which considers the intrinsic complexity due to the interconnectedness among the different parts of the system and takes into account the long-term influence in a holistic manner [45,46].…”

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confidence: 99%

Guide for Climate-Resilient Cities: An Urban Critical Infrastructures Approach

2019

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Climate change (CC) is one of the most challenging issues ever faced, as it affects every system worldwide at any scale. Urban areas are not an exception. Extreme weather-related events have seriously affected urban areas in recent years, and they have a significant impact on the welfare of people. According to UN projections, by 2050 more than 68% of the world's population could be concentrated in urban areas. Additionally, daily life in urban areas is highly dependent on certain critical services and products provided by critical infrastructures (CIs). Therefore, it is especially relevant to understand how CC affects urban CIs in order to develop mechanisms to improve their capacity to handle crises derived from CC. In this context, resilience-based strategies provide a holistic approach, considering both predictable and unpredictable threats. This paper proposes a guide for assessing and enhancing the resilience level of cities against CC, considering urban CIs as key agents in improving the city's capacity to face and recover from CC-related crises. The guide was developed through a co-creation process in which two cities in the Basque Country (Spain) worked together with CI providers and other relevant stakeholders in the resilience-building process. The resulting guide is to be used by city stakeholders at a strategic level, providing them with: (1) a qualitative assessment of the city's current resilience level in the CC context; (2) better knowledge about urban CI sectors, their interdependency relationships and the chain of impacts due to cascading effects in the short, medium and in the long term and; (3) a set of policies that enhance city resilience.The fight against the consequences of CC has been gaining relevance in the last three decades, and countries all over the world are taking action against CC impacts [5][6][7][8]. On the one hand, they adopt mitigation strategies with the aim of reducing greenhouse gases emissions, and on the other hand, they develop adaptation strategies in order to adjust to the current and projected future effects of CC. The standard approach to planning for climate adaptation relies on using predictions based on CC projections as the basis to identify measures for prevention. Moreover, by focusing on specific impacts, CC adaptation approaches may not consider other indirect effects or long-term stresses [9]. Nevertheless, recent studies demonstrate there is uncertainty associated with CC projections [1], as climate conditions are becoming increasingly variable and dynamic. This high degree of uncertainty requires new strategies that consider the dynamics of the threats. In this sense, traditional risk management-based approaches are not enough to deal with CC impacts.Moreover, this context is challenging since urban areas have become more and more complex consisting of an extensive network of people, infrastructures and services that are strongly interconnected. In particular, the welfare of these urban areas is highly dependent on the proper functioning of critical inf...

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“…The term resilience does not have a commonly accepted definition, mainly because it has been conceptualised in many different ways within different disciplines and contexts (Lizarralde et al, 2015). In the context of this study, resilience is a measure of the persistence of the pumping stations and can be defined as the ability to absorb, cope, and recover from a disturbance such as trash interference and still maintain form or state without significant damage (Cutter et al, 2008).…”

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confidence: 99%