Radical changes are needed for transformations to a good Anthropocene

McPhearson, Timon; Raymond, Christopher M.; Gulsrud, Natalie Marie; Albert, Christian; Coles, Neil; Fagerholm, Nora; Nagatsu, Michiru; Olafsson, Anton Stahl; Soininen, Niko; Vierikko, Kati

doi:10.1038/s42949-021-00017-x

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“…8,9 These actions have proven to be insufficient, and there is a clear need to help decision makers think strategically about layering adaptation solutions within cities that can lead to greater resilience across multiple potential futures. 10 Integrating diverse adaptation measures will be required to realise the transformations needed to build resilience to climate change and protect urban infrastructure and communities. This Viewpoint aims to spur a discussion on how to systematically integrate three types of solutions (ie, technological, nature-based, and social solutions), to strengthen urban climate resilience, and outline ways for overcoming the range of challenges that hamper integration.…”

Section: Cities Confronting Unprecedented Climate Challengesmentioning

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Integrating solutions to adapt cities for climate change

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The Lancet Planetary Health

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Section: Cities Confronting Unprecedented Climate Challengesmentioning

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Integrating solutions to adapt cities for climate change

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“…Our current understanding of planetary boundaries requires a systemic and rapid shift in all sectors (McPhearson et al 2021), and in ways that engage with academics, decisionmakers and citizens (Patterson et al 2021). These shifts are highly complex and require new forms and systems of knowledge.…”

Section: Conclusion and Future Pathways For Sustainability Sciencementioning

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Bridge over troubled water: managing compatibility and conflict among thought collectives in sustainability science

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Sustainability transformations call forth new forms and systems of knowledge across society. However, few tools and processes exist for promoting dialogue among different interests and normative stances in knowledge co-creation. In this article, we build on the notion of thought collectives to argue that understanding and moderating normative tensions are necessary if sustainability science is to provide successful solutions. Drawing on an analysis of the normative tensions between rival high-tech and low-tech thought collectives in the mobility and food production sectors, we discuss three strategic approaches: applying common evaluative frameworks, building contextual convergence and embracing complexity. We argue that these strategies indicate a need to distinguish different kinds of reflexivity in managing tensions among thought collectives. As a practical conclusion, we establish sets of reflexive questions to help sustainability scientists deploy the knowledge management strategies discussed.

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“…Worldwide, cities face rapid changes in natural hazards, resident mobility, urban densification, sprawl or shrinkage, demographics, and lifestyles, all potentially affecting the access to the different services and resources necessary for good quality of life. Although there are many reasons for the ongoing global aggregation of people in cities, compact, built-up, and sealed spaces, high population densities, and intensive resource use pose a challenge to both health and well-being of city residents (Elmqvist et al 2018a, 2021, McPhearson et al 2021. Externalized support systems for satisfying many basic human needs of food and other environmental goods (Seto et al 2012, Friis andNielsen 2019) cannot solve all urban challenges in terms of environmental quality.…”

Section: Enabling and Ensuring Urban Green And Blue Infrastructure Benefitsmentioning

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“…We propose that actively working with system level filters (sensu ) offers a way for building resilience around the flow of GBI benefits, which we identify as a core contribution to overall urban resilience. However, for successful real world application, SETS theory needs to connect to non-academic discourse and practice (McPhearson et al 2021). Our SETSgrounded framework positions GBI as placed primarily in the ecological domain, although humans are actively part of the ecological dynamics through their use and management of GBI.…”

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Urban resilience thinking in practice: ensuring flows of benefit from green and blue infrastructure

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Present and future urbanization together with climate change and other uncertainties make urban quality of life a critical issue, and one that will need constant attention and deliberation. Across cities and contexts, urban ecosystems in the form of green and blue infrastructure, have the potential to contribute to human well-being as well as supporting biodiversity, and to do so under diverse conditions. However, the realization of this potential depends not only on the green and blue infrastructure itself, the well-being benefits are outcomes of the structures and processes of the entire urban system. Drawing on theory and insights from social-ecologicaltechnological systems (SETS) research and resilience assessments, we describe how a systemic understanding of the generation and delivery of green and blue infrastructure benefits may inform cross-sectoral strategies and interventions for building resilience around this particular aspect of human well-being. Connecting SETS to non-academic discourse and practice, we describe the urban system in terms of three systemic controlling variables: infrastructure, institutions, and the perceptions of individual beneficiaries, which we call filters, and how these can be used in different participatory processes to assess and build resilience around green and blue infrastructure and its benefits.To ground the conceptual and theoretical framework in real world complexity and make it operational in practice we discuss three case studies applying the framework in Barcelona, Halle, and Stockholm. All cases share the same general three-step process but their individual combinations of methods and adaptions of the filters framework are designed to fit with three necessarily unique collaborative, transdisciplinary processes. The cases are discussed in terms of outcomes and output, the ways they made use of the conceptual framework, and the challenges they faced. This exploratory work points to a new way of engaging with urban resilience-the strength of the approach is that it is not limited to the identification of specific interventions or policy options, nor trying to prevent change; rather it focuses on how to move with change and build resilience through constant balancing of different types of SETS change. Our study reinforces the growing understanding of how well-being benefits positioned as emergent outcomes of internal SETS interactions offers leverage for mainstreaming green and blue infrastructure throughout diverse governance processes and sectors.

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Radical changes are needed for transformations to a good Anthropocene

Cited by 144 publications

References 114 publications

Integrating solutions to adapt cities for climate change

Integrating solutions to adapt cities for climate change

Bridge over troubled water: managing compatibility and conflict among thought collectives in sustainability science

Urban resilience thinking in practice: ensuring flows of benefit from green and blue infrastructure

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