Urban resilience implementation: A policy challenge and research agenda for the 21st century

Coaffee, Jon; Therrien, Marie‐Christine; Chelleri, Lorenzo; Henstra, Daniel; Aldrich, Daniel P.; Mitchell, Carrie L.; Tsenkova, Sasha; Rigaud, Éric

doi:10.1111/1468-5973.12233

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“…Advancing urban resilience creates "a significant challenge, because it requires coordinating the efforts of numerous government departments, adopting flexible, and adaptive processes to accommodate changing circumstances, and allocating resources to preventive measures in anticipation of uncertain future threats" [7] (p. 404). Hence, a comprehensive framework is essential to building urban resilience.…”

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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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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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“…This social capital involves both the bonding social capital of individuals with similar interests and backgrounds working together (e.g. faith communities, clubs) as well as the bridging social capital of groups from differing backgrounds collaborating across generations, sectors, positions of power and types of organisations (Adger 2003;Aldrich & Meyer 2015;Coaffee et al 2018;Magis 2010). Social capital is pivotal in disempowered and vulnerable populations in fostering an atmosphere of agency and hope (Emery & Flora 2006), and this foundation becomes especially important in supporting climate resilience (Ashwill et al 2011;Kais & Islam 2016;Wolf et al 2010).…”

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An urban modelling framework for climate resilience in low-resource neighbourhoods

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Climate predictions indicate a strong likelihood of more frequent, intense heat events. Resourcevulnerable, low-income neighbourhood populations are likely to be strongly impacted by future climate change, especially with respect to an energy burden. In order to identify existing and new vulnerabilities to climate change, local authorities need to understand the dynamics of extreme heat events at the neighbourhood level, particularly to identify those people who are adversely affected. A new comprehensive framework is presented that integrates human and biophysical data: occupancy/behaviour, building energy use, future climate scenarios and near-building microclimate projections. The framework is used to create an urban energy model for a low-resource neighbourhood in Des Moines, Iowa, US. Data were integrated into urban modelling interface (umi) software simulations, based on detailed surveys of residents' practices, their buildings and near-building microclimates (tree canopy effects, etc.). The simulations predict annual and seasonal building energy use in response to different climate scenarios. Preliminary results, based on 50 simulation runs with different variable combinations, indicate the importance of using locally derived building occupant schedules and point toward increased summer cooling demand and increased vulnerability for parts of the population. Practice relevance To support planning responses to increased heat, local authorities need to ascertain which neighbourhoods will be negatively impacted in order to develop appropriate strategies. Localised data can provide good insights into the impacts of human decisions and climate variability in low-resource, vulnerable urban neighbourhoods. A new detailed modelling framework synthesises data on occupant-building interactions with present and future urban climate characteristics. This identifies the areas most vulnerable to extreme heat using future climate projections and community demographics. Cities can use this framework to support decisions and climate-adaptation responses, especially for low-resource neighbourhoods. Fine-grained and locally collected data influence the outcome of combined urban energy simulations that integrate human-building interactions and occupancy schedules as well as microclimate characteristics influenced by nearby vegetation.

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“…From this view, urban and territorial resilience are conceived as the co-evolutive property of a system, where more emphasis is placed upon urban planning anticipatory approaches, acknowledging pre-existing governance models and the historical interaction of communities and risks. Urban design tools are conceived using a map of urban vulnerabilities [62]. To do so, the co-evolutionary approach to resilience is significant for urban planning, since enables the integration of the engineering risk management approach with the interdisciplinary historical perspective.…”

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Territorial Resilience: Toward a Proactive Meaning for Spatial Planning

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The international debate on resilience has grown around the ability of a community to prepare for and adapt to natural disasters, with a growing interest in holistically understanding complex systems. Although the concept of resilience has been investigated from different perspectives, the lack of understanding of its conceptual comprehensive aspects presents strong limitations for spatial planning and for the adoption of policies and programs for its measurement and achievement. In this paper, we refer to “territorial resilience” as an emerging concept capable of aiding the decision-making process of identifying vulnerabilities and improving the transformation of socio-ecological and technological systems (SETSs). Here, we explore the epistemology of resilience, reviewing the origins and the evolution of this term, providing evidence on how this conceptual umbrella is used by different disciplines to tackle problem-solving that arises from disaster management and command-control practices to augment the robustness. Assuming the SETSs paradigm, the seismic and structural engineering, social sciences and history, urban planning and climatology perspectives intersects providing different analytical levels of resilience, including vulnerability and patrimony from a community and cultural perspective. We conclude that territorial resilience surpasses the analytical barriers between different disciplines, providing a useful concept related to complex problem-solving phenomena for land use planning, opening a new research question: how can territorial resilience be measured, acknowledging different units and levels of analysis aiding decision-making in spatial plans and projects? In attempting to understand a resilient system, quantitative and qualitative measurements are crucial to supporting planning decisions.

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Urban resilience implementation: A policy challenge and research agenda for the 21st century

Cited by 111 publications

References 56 publications

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

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

An urban modelling framework for climate resilience in low-resource neighbourhoods

Territorial Resilience: Toward a Proactive Meaning for Spatial Planning

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