Unpacking resilience policy discourse

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

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2016.05.017

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“…Running alongside this is whether resilience represents a 'promising' or 'problematic' concept for planning (e.g. Chmutina et al, 2016;Davoudi, 2012;Deal et al, 2017;Fainstein, 2015;Mahmood, 2015;Pizzo, 2015;Raco and Street, 2012;Shaw, 2012a;Vale, 2014).…”

Section: Reflections and A New Research Agendamentioning

confidence: 99%

Illegal geographies and spatial planning: developing a dialogue on drugs

Boland

Fox-Rogers

McKay

et al. 2018

Territory, Politics, Governance

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INTRODUCTIONIn 2015 a special issue of this journal dedicated to illegal geographies contained six studies on the "relationships between clandestine economies and the political geographies of law enforcement" (Banister, Boyce and Slack, 2015, p. 365). The unifying thread between the papers was their focus on illegal drugs, with some interesting nods to the role of land use planning (Polson, 2015).More recently, in another journal De Leo (2017, p 216) discusses the "links between urban planning and organised crime". Responding to this emergent body of scholarship in geography and planning we unpack and problematize the links between illegal drugs and spatial planningthe drugs-planning nexus. Moreover, in developing a dialogue on drugs we set the context for a new research agenda for the territoriality, governance and planning of contemporary cityspaces. The first point to make is that a reading of the academic literature reveals the overwhelming majority of planners do not dedicate their mind or motives to the massive issue of illegal drugs.Historically planning discourse has been framed under umbrella narratives such as the public interest (Lennon, 2016) and sustainable development (Davidson and Gleeson, 2014); today the trendy concepts are competitiveness (Boland, 2014), climate change (Wilson and Piper, 2010), resilience (Mehmood, 2016), health and wellbeing (Tewdwr-Jones, 2017). The eclectic nature of modern spatial planning encompasses almost every issue facing the modern city, from children's diet to the futurity of the planet. We deliberately emphasise the adjective almost because there is one notable, to us perplexing, omission in the intellectual focus of planners. Souza (2006, p. 333, our inset) explains "drug trafficking [and use] is an important challenge…for urban planning".However, there is a limited number of papers addressing drugs from a planning perspective (e.g. ). Regarding practice, at different spatialities of the UK's planning framework health, wellbeing, crime and anti-social behaviour are mentioned; however, in comparative terms drugs, and their often deleterious spatial and social consequences, are not discussed in any substantive or systematic manner in any planning strategy or policy document. Thus, drugs seemingly do not occupy the mindset of planners in universities or councils. Even in an era of inter-professional working and healthy urban planning the issue remains disconnected from praxis. Instead, drugs are largely the focus of other social science disciplines (e.g. geography, sociology, criminology and economics) and responsibility of other public officials. 2For us drugs are a planning problem. This necessitates planning scholars and practitioners to be just as familiar with the drugs debate as they are with child obesity or global warming; i.e. moving beyond simplistic stereotyping of 'druggies' and sensationalist statements such as 'drugs cause crime' and 'drugs kill'. These at best misleading axioms, peddled by professionals (e.g. scientists, politicians and the police 1 ) an...

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Section: Reflections and A New Research Agendamentioning

confidence: 99%

Illegal geographies and spatial planning: developing a dialogue on drugs

Boland

Fox-Rogers

McKay

et al. 2018

Territory, Politics, Governance

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“…Durante a década de 1970 a investigação dedicada ao estudo dos ecossistemas, em paralelo com a que tem lugar no âmbito da psicologia, fizeram uso desta conceção de resiliência para estudar fenómenos naturais e comportamentos humanos. De seguida, as disciplinas relacionadas com a gestão de riscos e com o planeamento dedicado a resolver situações de emergência, manifestam interesse pelos determinantes da resiliência, embutindo-lhe a noção de robustez e de prevenção, viabilizando respostas proactivas a situações críticas (Chmutina, Lizarralde, Dainty, & Bosher, 2016).…”

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Avaliação da resiliência socioeconómica municipal: procedimentos metodológicos aplicados a Portugal durante a crise (2008‑ 2013)

Gonçalves

2018

FIT

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Tanto a magnitude como a recorrência dos episódios de crise desencadeados pós 2008, exigem novos referenciais para analisar os fatores e os contextos que (des)bloqueiam o progresso das comunidades. Avaliar a resiliência socioeconómica implica que se considerem as interações espaciais, temporais e setoriais conjugando os fatores que conferem persistência às trajetórias de desenvolvimento, com outros percussores de evolução e de transformação. Através da análise de 18 modelos que avaliam a resiliência territorial, desenvolvemos uma matriz de 22 indicadores organizada em 4 domínios (governância, estrutura urbana, económica e social), reproduzindo as dimensões socioeconómicas representativas. Quando aplicamos esta matriz aos municípios portugueses, considerando um período pré, e outro pós, início da crise de 2008, cartografamos um país vulnerável à crise e que perde potencial de desenvolvimento. A evolução entre pré e pós início da crise mostra o reforço da centralidade das áreas centrais e o aprofundamento da vulnerabilidade das periféricas.

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“…In recent years, we have witnessed an explosion of quantitative methodologies for analyzing the resilience and robustness of socioeconomic systems [9,10]. However, the literature of policy analysis at the process level is mainly qualitative [11][12][13]. Consequently, the tools and recommendations in this line of research are based solely on case studies and on an informal treatment of complexity.…”

Section: On the Nature Of Resilience And Policy-makingmentioning

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The Resilience of Public Policies in Economic Development

Ramos

Guerrero

2018

SSRN Journal

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This paper studies the resilience of public policies that governments design for catalyzing economic development. This property depends on the extent to which behavioral heuristics and spillover effects allow policymakers to attain their original goals when a particular policy cannot be funded as originally planned. This scenario takes place, for example, when unanticipated events such as natural disasters or political turmoil obstruct the use of resources to advance certain policy issues, e.g., infrastructure or labor reforms. Here, we analyze how the adaptive capacity of the policy-making process generates resilience in the face of disruptions. In order to estimate the allocation of resources across policies, we employ a computational model that accounts for diverse social mechanisms, for example, coevolutionary learning and network interdependencies. In our simulations, we use a data set of 117 countries on 79 development indicators over an 11-year period. Then, we calculate a resilience score corresponding to each development indicator via counter-factual analysis of policy disruptions. Next, we assess whether some development strategies produce resilient/fragile policy profiles. Finally, by studying the relationship between policy resilience and policy priority, we determine which issues are bottlenecks to economic development.

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Unpacking resilience policy discourse

Cited by 65 publications

References 30 publications

Illegal geographies and spatial planning: developing a dialogue on drugs

Illegal geographies and spatial planning: developing a dialogue on drugs

Avaliação da resiliência socioeconómica municipal: procedimentos metodológicos aplicados a Portugal durante a crise (2008‑ 2013)

The Resilience of Public Policies in Economic Development

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