Urbanization, Extreme Events, and Health

Siri, José G.; Newell, Barry; Proust, Katrina; Capon, Anthony

doi:10.1177/1010539515595694

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“… (1) (Anguelovski et al, ; Brown et al, ); (2) (Kehinde, ); (3) (Lizzaralde, ); (4) (Brown et al, ); (5) (Anguelovski et al, ); (6) (Bornstein et al, ; Brown et al, ); (7) (Lizzaralde, ; Sciulli et al, ; Tadele & Manyena, ); (8) (Bornstein et al, ); (9) (Anguelovski et al, ; Chelleri, Schuetze, et al, ; Chelleri, Waters, et al, ); (10) (Leinhos et al, ; Qari et al, ); (11) (Plough et al, ; Qari et al, ); (12) (Motta et al, ); (13) (Drakaki & Tzionas, ; Plough et al, ); (14) (Plough et al, ); (15) (Roberts, ); (16) (Carthey et al, ); (17) (Siri et al, ); (18) (Carthey et al, ; Plough et al, ). …”

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“…Health‐related trade‐offs are also evident in the literature. The urban space itself presents trade‐offs, where high population density allows for better communication linkages and medical and emergency infrastructure, but also enables faster transmission of disease and complicates evacuation and the provision of relief (Siri, Newell, Proust, & Capon, ). In public health and health care, resource redundancies needed to prepare for and respond to emergency events can represent a trade‐off with efficient resource allocation in stable times demanded by stringent performance requirements (Carthey et al, ; Plough et al, ).…”

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Enabling strategies and impeding factors to urban resilience implementation: A scoping review

Therrien

Usher

Matyas

2019

Contingencies & Crisis Mgmt

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Despite growing interest in urban resilience, there is a significant gap between discourse and the capacity to develop resilience in practice. This scoping review assembles and shares evidence and insights from empirical studies of attempts to implement urban resilience published between 2005 and 2017. More precisely, it seeks to identify enabling strategies, impeding factors and trade-offs in the implementation of urban resilience. Findings are presented along the dimensions of urban resilience detailed in the City Resilience Framework (ARUP/Rockefeller Foundation): Health and Wellbeing, Economy and Society, Infrastructure and Environment, and Leadershipand Strategy (which we present as a cross-cutting theme). While some enabling and impeding factors in implementation are associated with a specific dimension, others are common to all three. Across dimensions, we find that transparent, inclusive and supportive governance reduces the risk of negative impact that resilience implementation will have on communities. Conflicting priorities of managing risk and meeting short-term needs are found to diminish the potential for transformative resilience action. Integrating risk into planning appears as a promising strategy in all dimensions of resilience. Trade-offs are found in resilience implementation, and range from adverse effects associated with infrastructure to power imbalances when the power to implement resilience privileges one system level over another. K E Y W O R D Senabling strategies, impeding factors, implementation, trade-offs, Urban resilience

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Enabling strategies and impeding factors to urban resilience implementation: A scoping review

Therrien

Usher

Matyas

2019

Contingencies & Crisis Mgmt

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“…The large and growing body of nexus literature shows that integrated and holistic management of interconnected global systems is becoming critical as the pressures on our limited and shared resources increase (Canyon et al, 2015;Siri et al, 2016;Allen et al, 2019;Hameed et al, 2019;Mabhaudhi et al, 2019;Olawuyi, 2020;Zarei, 2020). Past reviews of nexus literature (Cremades et al, 2019;Johnson et al, 2019;Simpson and Jewitt, 2019;Opejin et al, 2020;van Gevelt, 2020;Vinca et al, 2021) raised some of the same points highlighted in this study, such as the need for applied case studies, the curation of standardized data, the categorization of appropriate models for different use-cases, a shift from analysis to implementation through policy and governance mechanisms, and integration with existing multi-sector frameworks such as the SDGs.…”

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“…Pressures on limited natural resource systems are currently increasing, and these are coupled with climate change, more frequent extreme events, migration, urbanization, demographic growth, and ecosystem tipping points, amongst other dynamic and intersectoral changes (Canyon et al, 2015;Siri et al, 2016;Allen et al, 2019;Hameed et al, 2019;Mabhaudhi et al, 2019;Olawuyi, 2020;Zarei, 2020). These changes are presenting themselves with an urgency that calls for nexus concepts to be put into practice.…”

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Emerging Themes and Future Directions of Multi-Sector Nexus Research and Implementation

Khan

Abraham

Aggarwal

et al. 2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Water, energy, and food are all essential components of human societies. Collectively, their respective resource systems are interconnected in what is called the “nexus”. There is growing consensus that a holistic understanding of the interdependencies and trade-offs between these sectors and other related systems is critical to solving many of the global challenges they present. While nexus research has grown exponentially since 2011, there is no unified, overarching approach, and the implementation of concepts remains hampered by the lack of clear case studies. Here, we present the results of a collaborative thought exercise involving 75 scientists and summarize them into 10 key recommendations covering: the most critical nexus issues of today, emerging themes, and where future efforts should be directed. We conclude that a nexus community of practice to promote open communication among researchers, to maintain and share standardized datasets, and to develop applied case studies will facilitate transparent comparisons of models and encourage the adoption of nexus approaches in practice.

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“…It has been proven through the literature and practice that systems thinking can help deal with the increasing complexity of businesses in particular [27,28] and the world in general [6,29]. There is a growing emphasis on systems thinking in almost all fields, including education [30][31][32], engineering [33,34], military [35,36], agriculture [37][38][39], weather [40,41], and public health [42][43][44].…”

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An Assessment of Individuals’ Systems Thinking Skills via Immersive Virtual Reality Complex System Scenarios

Dayarathna

Karam

Jaradat

et al. 2021

Systems

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This study utilized the application of authentic Virtual Reality (VR) to replicate the real-world complex system scenarios of a large retail supply chain. The proposed VR scenarios were developed based on an established systems thinking instrument that consists of seven dimensions: level of complexity, independence, interaction, change, uncertainty, systems’ worldview, and flexibility. However, in this study, we only developed the VR scenarios for the first dimension, level of complexity, to assess an individual’s Systems Thinking Skills (STS) when he or she engages in a turbulent virtual environment. The main objective of this study was to compare a student’s STS when using traditional ST instruments versus VR scenarios for the complexity dimension. The secondary aim was to investigate the efficacy of VR scenarios utilizing three measurements: Simulation Sickness Questionnaire (SSQ), System Usability Scale (SUS), and Presence Questionnaire (PQ). In addition to the three measures, NASA TLX assessment was also performed to assess the perceived workload with regards to performing the tasks in VR scenarios. The results show students’ preferences in the VR scenarios are not significantly different from their responses obtained using the traditional systems skills instrument. The efficacy measures confirmed that the developed VR scenarios are user friendly and lie in an acceptable region for users. Finally, the overall NASA TLX score suggests that users require 36% perceived work effort to perform the activities in VR scenarios.

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Urbanization, Extreme Events, and Health

Cited by 16 publications

References 36 publications

Enabling strategies and impeding factors to urban resilience implementation: A scoping review

Enabling strategies and impeding factors to urban resilience implementation: A scoping review

Emerging Themes and Future Directions of Multi-Sector Nexus Research and Implementation

An Assessment of Individuals’ Systems Thinking Skills via Immersive Virtual Reality Complex System Scenarios

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