Plan integration for resilience scorecard: evaluating networks of plans in six US coastal cities

Berke, Philip; Malecha, Matthew; Yu, Siyu; Lee, Jaekyung; Masterson, Jaimie Hicks

doi:10.1080/09640568.2018.1453354

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“…In response, I offer propositions for future directions in research and practice, drawing on concepts of community development from the Global South and historic precedents in US regional environmental governance. These include focusing on local livelihoods and productive landscapes, and strengthening watershed-scale planning and governance institutions that would cross the organizational, administrative, and fiscal silos that currently preclude systems-based, integrated, and cumulative assessments, plans, and projects (Berke et al 2018 ).…”

Section: Green Infrastructure At a Crossroadsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Cities could do much more to coordinate their plans across agencies (Berke et al 2018 ; Malecha et al under review), although cities with a large percentage of land at risk of current or future flooding have little fiscal recourse beyond trying to build their way out or suffering a vicious cycle of disasters, declining property tax rolls, and disinvestment. Coordinating land use and fiscal redistribution across cities is that much harder given weak US regionalism.…”

Section: Municipal Fragmentation and Fiscal Reliance On Growth And Dementioning

confidence: 99%

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Beyond flood risk reduction: How can green infrastructure advance both social justice and regional impact?

Shi

2020

Socio Ecol Pract Res

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Green infrastructure is being pulled in divergent directions. As climate impacts intensify, advocates are promoting larger, ecosystem-scale strategies to help mitigate flood risks. Yet, research on existing urban greening projects finds that they can cause gentrification and displacement, suggesting that smaller projects may be more desirable from an equity perspective. This essay argues that cities need both large-scale and justice-enhancing nature-based solutions. They can help overcome tensions in these goals by (1) reframing green infrastructure as a way to support community development and integrated socio-ecological landscapes, and (2) advancing metropolitan regional governance strategies that alleviate municipal fiscal imperatives to maximize local land development. These proposals suggest that the practice of green infrastructure would benefit from diversifying its ranks to include social and government policy, community development, and agroecology, as well as learning from the Global South and those currently positioned as "off the map" of technical expertise. They also point to the need for interdisciplinary research that provides an evidence base for more transformative social, ecological, and governance strategies. While the essay focuses on the US context, it is relevant to an international audience given that similar challenges confront cities worldwide and that it highlights how the Global North can learn from the Global South.

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Section: Green Infrastructure At a Crossroadsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Municipal Fragmentation and Fiscal Reliance On Growth And Dementioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond flood risk reduction: How can green infrastructure advance both social justice and regional impact?

Shi

2020

Socio Ecol Pract Res

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“…This finding suggests that organizations within the community development system do not fully engage in hazard mitigation processes. Coordination for hazard mitigation among organizations in the community development system is crucial for resilience planning [3,10]. However, as survey data and results show, adequate coordination within the community development system was missing prior to Harvey.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Insufficient integration of land use approaches and hazard mitigation strategies with infrastructure plans and projects has increased both social and physical vulnerability [3]. The insufficient integration among hazard mitigation, land use, and infrastructure plans is, to some extent, due to inadequate coordination for resilience planning of IISs across different infrastructure systems, such as the flood control and transportation system [4,10–12].…”

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Modeling of inter-organizational coordination dynamics in resilience planning of infrastructure systems: A multilayer network simulation framework

Dong

Mostafavi

2019

PLoS ONE

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This paper proposes and tests a multilayer framework for simulating the network dynamics of inter-organizational coordination among interdependent infrastructure systems (IISs) in resilience planning. Inter-organizational coordination among IISs (such as transportation, flood control, and emergency management) would greatly affect the effectiveness of resilience planning. Hence, it is important to examine and understand the dynamics of coordination in networks of organizations within and across various systems in resilience planning. To capture the dynamic nature of coordination frequency and the heterogeneity of organizations, this paper proposes a multilayer network simulation framework enabling the characterization of inter-organizational coordination dynamics within and across IISs. In the proposed framework, coordination probabilities are utilized to approximate the varying levels of collaboration among organizations. Based on these derived collaborations, the simulation process perturbs intra-layer or inter-layer links and unveils the level of inter-organizational coordination within and across IISs. To test the proposed framework, the study examined a multilayer collaboration network of 35 organizations from five infrastructure systems within Harris County, Texas, based on the data gathered from a survey in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. The results indicate that prior to Hurricane Harvey: (1) coordination among organizations across different infrastructure systems is less than the coordination within the individual systems; (2) organizations from the community development system had a low level of coordination for hazard mitigation with organizations in flood control and transportation systems; (3) achieving a greater level of coordination among organizations across infrastructure systems is more difficult and would require a greater frequency of interaction (compared to within-system coordination). The results show the capability of the proposed multilayer network simulation framework to examine inter-organizational coordination dynamics at the system level (e.g., within and across IISs). The assessment of inter-organizational coordination within and across IISs sheds light on important organizational interdependencies in IISs and leads to recommendations for improving the resilience planning process.

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“…However, much of the literature on urban resiliency focuses on design challenges to harden a community and its infrastructure against disaster, especially with regard to the impacts of climate change (Bosher et al ). Recovery policies often fail to integrate environmental sustainability (Abrahams ; Song et al ) and some disaster plans aimed at mitigating threats actually increase the risk to already vulnerable areas (Berke et al ).…”

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Sustainability and Disaster Planning: What Are the Connections?

2019

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In this article, we examine the connections between resiliency and sustainability by asking: Can disaster planning lead to more sustainability actions? In a survey we conducted of 1,899 cities, towns, and counties across the United States in 2015, we found that disaster plans are three times more common than sustainability plans. Our regression models find both types of plans lead to sustainability action as does regional collaboration across the rural‐urban interface. However, we find that hazard mitigation planning may be done without including sustainability staff, citizens, and other officials. After controlling for motivations, capacity, and cooperation, we find that rural communities are more likely to have sustainability plans than suburbs, though their level of sustainability action is lower due to capacity constraints. Our models of multilevel governance find local motivations balance sustainability’s concept of environmental protection, economic development, and social equity—and are more important drivers of action than grassroots or higher‐level government funding and policy. This bodes well in a context where federal government leadership on sustainability is absent.

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Plan integration for resilience scorecard: evaluating networks of plans in six US coastal cities

Cited by 63 publications

References 22 publications

Beyond flood risk reduction: How can green infrastructure advance both social justice and regional impact?

Beyond flood risk reduction: How can green infrastructure advance both social justice and regional impact?

Modeling of inter-organizational coordination dynamics in resilience planning of infrastructure systems: A multilayer network simulation framework

Sustainability and Disaster Planning: What Are the Connections?

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