Commentary: Inequality, precarity and sustainable ecosystems as elements of urban resilience

Adger, W. Neil; Campos, Ricardo Safra de; Siddiqui, Tasneem; Szaboova, Lucy

doi:10.1177/0042098020904594

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“…Citizens who are affected by urban challenges are well placed to provide information relevant to devising novel solutions or identifying the unconsidered challenges of proposed infrastructure. CMs enable a greater cross section of people to provide this information, highlighting explicitly the complexity of mobility challenges more transparently and in a form that enables and empowers dialogues, thus helping to build resilience (Adger et al 2020 ). CMs empower citizens, helping them to generate their own bottom-up solutions to problems, and enable equitable co-production, leading to transformative change.…”

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Transforming urban planning processes and outcomes through creative methods

Cinderby

Bruin

Cambridge

et al. 2021

Ambio

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Inclusively delivering the sustainable development goals (SDGs) remains challenging, particularly in urban areas, where some of the most pressing concerns exist. To achieve the transformative SDG agenda, new methods are required to overcome current deficits in engagement around inclusion and equitable outcomes. Evaluating against theories of governance and inclusion, we test a mixture of digital and physical creative methods abilities to deliver co-designed solutions that influence mobility and road safety planning outcomes in East African cities. Greater inclusion led to improved interactions of citizens with decision makers, and the identification of novel, practical solutions, delivering some elements of transformation. Risks include creative methods being used to co-opt communities to official agendas, and institutional planning norms needing to adapt to respond to a wider range of stakeholders. Overall, where risks are mitigated, we recommend that using Creative Methods could localise SDG delivery, ensuring more equitable and effective outcomes from infrastructure development investments.

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Transforming urban planning processes and outcomes through creative methods

Cinderby

Bruin

Cambridge

et al. 2021

Ambio

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“…The concluding perspective essay by Adger, Safra de Campos, Siddiqui and Szaboova treats human well-being and planetary flourishing as sources, as well as desired outcomes of resilience, which are furthered through urban governance regimes that expand social inclusion while reducing inequality (Adger et al, 2020). While substantial improvements in city-making during Asia’s accelerated 21st century urban transition have promised to enhance resilience, repeated failures in environmental governance are evidenced in under-provisioned infrastructures and services, including through the neglect or omission of much-needed urban green spaces that underpin human capacities and opportunities for sustaining environmental ecosystems.…”

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Governing resilient cities for planetary flourishing in the Asia-Pacific

2020

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For the first time in 2019, the Asia-Pacific became a majority urban region. The unprecedented pace and magnitude of urbanisation across Asia and the Pacific has exposed tens of millions of urban residents to heightened risks and vulnerabilities associated with the expanding ecological footprint of urban energy, food and water demands and the increasingly severe effects of global climate change. This special issue directs attention toward the challenges, innovations and examples of best practice in environmental governance for urban resilience in the Asia-Pacific region. Our understanding of urban resilience is tied to the concept of planetary flourishing that links the health and well-being of urban populations with sustainability behaviours that promote regeneration of the biosphere while redistributing environmental risks and benefits in more socially inclusive and equitable ways.

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“…But such engagement is needed if urban theory is to be truly contemporary, for, as Goh (2020b: 3) asks, ‘if climate change is the defining challenge of the moment, how is it not indelibly transforming our core thinking of the urban?’ This is not to say that critical studies of urban climate adaptation are lacking. On the contrary, critical interrogation of urban resilience, for example, abounds, with much attention on how it extends and is intertwined with socio-economic inequality (Adger et al, 2020; Long and Rice, 2019; Meerow and Newell, 2019), racialised exclusion (Bonds, 2018; Grove et al, 2020), neoliberalism (While and Whitehead, 2013) and governmentality (Braun, 2014; Derickson, 2018b; Wakefield and Braun, 2014). Yet what remains unquestioned across diverse critical analyses of urban resilience is that the basic spatial form of cities and urban processes will remain (more or less resiliently) as the Anthropocene progresses.…”

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Critical urban theory in the Anthropocene

Wakefield

2021

Urban Studies

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Critical urban thinkers often imagine urbanisation and the Anthropocene as inevitably being companion processes. But is planetary urbanisation the necessary telos and spatial limit of life in the Anthropocene? Is urban resilience the final form of urban responses to climate change? Will (or should) the urban (as either spatial form or process) survive the upending impacts of climate change or adaptation? Or, if the Anthropocene is a time of deep environmental and epistemological upheaval without historical precedent, might even more recently created spatial concepts of the planetary urban condition themselves soon be out of date? This article raises these questions for urban scholars via critical engagement with a proposal to retire Miami – considered climate change ‘ground zero’ in the US and doomed by rising seas – and repurpose it as fill for ‘The Islands of South Florida’: a self-sufficient territory of artificial high-rises delinked from global infrastructural networks. This vision of an ‘urbicidal Anthropocene’, the article argues, suggests that the injunction subtending planetary urbanisation work – to relentlessly question inherited spatial frameworks – has not been taken far enough. Still needed is Anthropocene critical urban theory, to consider urban forms and processes emerging via climate change and adaptation, but also how such mutations may point beyond the theoretical and spatial bounds of the contemporary urban condition itself.

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Commentary: Inequality, precarity and sustainable ecosystems as elements of urban resilience

Cited by 31 publications

References 38 publications

Transforming urban planning processes and outcomes through creative methods

Transforming urban planning processes and outcomes through creative methods

Governing resilient cities for planetary flourishing in the Asia-Pacific

Critical urban theory in the Anthropocene

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