Plans that Disrupt Development: Equity Policies and Social Vulnerability in Six Coastal Cities

Berke, Philip; Yu, Siyu; Malecha, Matthew; Cooper, John

doi:10.1177/0739456x19861144

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“…In the past few decades, there have been incoherent definitions, interpretations, and analytical models proposed to understand, apply, and assess the notion of resilience and its related concepts (Béné et al, 2018; Berke, Malecha, & Cooper, 2019; Chuang et al, 2018; Pizzo, 2015). The majority of such efforts focus on quantifying indicators to technically guide practitioners and policymakers to achieve resilience as a goal, paying insufficient attention to the complexity, informality, and unpredictability of social dynamics; these linear quantitative approaches also fail to explore the core value of resilience, including justice and inclusiveness (Fainstein, 2018; Weichselgartner & Kelman, 2015; Wisner, 2016).…”

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Renaissance of Resilience: A Buzzword or a New Ideal?

Cai

2020

Manag. Organ. Rev.

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The COVID-19 pandemic, an unprecedented public health crisis in the 21 st century, demonstrates how risks are unequally distributed among different socioeconomic groups, how bureaucratic systems can be ineffectively adapting to the fast-paced changing dynamics, and how multi-level governance frameworks may lack coordination between national and regional sectors. The pandemic does not cause the unjust prerogatives to quarantine, testing kits, and even potential vaccines. The injustice, ineffectiveness, and a lack of coordination existed before the pandemic and are more noticeably presented by this public health disaster. No hazards are 'natural'. The coronavirus may originate from nature, but the adverse effects are mostly generated and magnified by current socioeconomic orders. The elderly (Armitage & Nellums, 2020), gender-based violence victims (Chandan et al., 2020), people living with disabilities (Pereira-Sanchez et al., 2020), immigrants (Keller & Wagner, 2020), and children in poverty (Lancker & Parolin, 2020) are more exposed to the increased morbidity and mortality. Globally, low-income and middle-income countries are at higher risks of the pandemic's negative effects, worsening existing structural inequalities, such as food security (Health, 2020; Hopman, Allegranzi, & Mehtar, 2020; Kelley et al., 2020). Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, when uncertainty becomes the new normal, the notion of resilience has frequently been mentioned among researchers, policymakers, and practitioners from various fields, including public health, urban planning, emergency management, and economics. Is such renaissance of resilience useful in the face of the pandemic? ANOTHER BUZZWORD OR THE NEW INSIGHT? In the past few decades, there have been incoherent definitions, interpretations, and analytical models proposed to understand, apply, and assess the notion of resilience and its related concepts (

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Renaissance of Resilience: A Buzzword or a New Ideal?

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2020

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“…Through revealing fundamental design principles with implications for actions, our research can also improve the nation's flood resilience, in support of science-based measures for accessible, affordable, and universal design interventions. More comprehensive knowledge of how cross-scale resilience design criteria influence adaptive behavior can inform more effective approaches as planning practitioners reevaluate their community network of plans (Berke et al, 2019;Yu et al, 2020).…”

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Towards an AI-driven framework for multi-scale urban flood resilience planning and design

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Climate vulnerability is higher in coastal regions. Communities can largely reduce their hazard vulnerabilities and increase their social resilience through design and planning, which could put cities on a trajectory for long-term stability. However, the silos within the design and planning communities and the gap between research and practice have made it difficult to achieve the goal for a flood resilient environment. Therefore, this paper suggests an AI (Artificial Intelligence)-driven platform to facilitate the flood resilience design and planning. This platform, with the active engagement of local residents, experts, policy makers, and practitioners, will break the aforementioned silos and close the knowledge gaps, which ultimately increases public awareness, improves collaboration effectiveness, and achieves the best design and planning outcomes. We suggest a holistic and integrated approach, bringing multiple disciplines (architectural design, landscape architecture, urban planning, geography, and computer science), and examining the pressing resilient issues at the macro, meso, and micro scales.

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“…In this regard, policy development largely fails to prioritize actions that are critical and consistent in reducing risk for vulnerable populations [24]. According to Berke et al [78], multiple groups may create plans to pursue their interests, resulting in a fragmented network of plans that are poorly coordinated, which could potentially conflict with each other and, subsequently, increase urban risks. As mentioned in [106], a governance dilemma can exist where subordinate governing bodies are unwilling to support policy developed by the higher level of government, creating a significant obstacle to implementing a collective approach to risk-sensitive urban development.…”

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“…As mentioned in [106], a governance dilemma can exist where subordinate governing bodies are unwilling to support policy developed by the higher level of government, creating a significant obstacle to implementing a collective approach to risk-sensitive urban development. In [78], Berke et al suggest that one of the reasons for such unwillingness by the subordinate governing bodies to support policies is due to the inability of the higher-level government bodies to create equity policies that support risk reduction for vulnerable communities in their local context. It can be observed that cities tend to adopt climate policies and hazard mitigation plans or implement strategies that are being developed at the national level, with limited engagement at the local level [94,107].…”

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Transformation towards Risk-Sensitive Urban Development: A Systematic Review of the Issues and Challenges

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Risk-sensitive urban development is an innovative planning approach that can transform the way cities are built in order to face the uncertainties that arise from climate-induced disaster risks. However, the potential to initiate such a transformative approach has not materialized because of the many underlying issues that need to be understood properly. Therefore, this study conducted a systematic review to gather empirical evidence on the issues and challenges in implementing risk-sensitive urban development. The study identified forty-six issues and challenges under seven key themes that need addressing in order to facilitate the desirable transition: trade-offs, governance, fragmentation and silos, capacity, design and development, data, and funding. The issues and challenges that exist under trade-offs for negotiating solutions for risk-sensitive urban development and the governance of multiple stakeholders were identified as the top two areas that need attention in facilitating the desirable transition. This study also revealed that important information, such as scientific information, hazard and risk information, temporal and spatial information, and critical local details are not being produced and shared between stakeholders in decision-making. A profound participatory process that involves all the stakeholders in the decision-making process was identified as the pathway to ensure equitable outcomes in risk-sensitive urban development.

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Plans that Disrupt Development: Equity Policies and Social Vulnerability in Six Coastal Cities

Cited by 41 publications

References 57 publications

Renaissance of Resilience: A Buzzword or a New Ideal?

Renaissance of Resilience: A Buzzword or a New Ideal?

Towards an AI-driven framework for multi-scale urban flood resilience planning and design

Transformation towards Risk-Sensitive Urban Development: A Systematic Review of the Issues and Challenges

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