The Resilience of Sustainability Transitions

Schilling, Thorsten; Wyss, Romano; Binder, Claudia R.

doi:10.3390/su10124593

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“…Most technological developments follow and S-shaped growth curve, that can be divided into four phases: pre-development, take-off, acceleration, and stabilization [64][65][66]. Therefore, the study cases uses a sigmoid function g(t, x) to adjust the power network growth data [67]:…”

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Anthropization and Growth of the Electricity Grid as Variables for the Analysis of Urban Infrastructure

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City growth goes together with the development of infrastructure, and the power network is one of the most relevant towards economic development. The study of urban infrastructure through the analysis of anthropization coupled with power network growth can produce a tool that supports sustainable infrastructure planning, both economic and environmental. The case study focuses on Ambato, Ecuador, in the period from 1950 to 2019, and assesses quantitatively the changes in the city layout and the evolution of its power network. The data are adjusted to a sigmoid-type objective function through a non-linear least squares problem, that is solved using the Broyden-Fletcher-Goldfarb-Shanno (BFGS) method. Anthropization data show how the urban area grew during the study period: at the expense of agricultural land. The forecast for new power network users by 2050 yields a result of 203,630 total users with a population density of 4850 people/km 2 . The conclusion is that this type of analysis can help city planners and decision makers further understand city and infrastructure growth dynamics and produce policies that bolster sustainable city growth.Sustainability 2020, 12, 1486 2 of 17 multi-family), but also the service networks, including the power network. However, most modern Latin American cities have experienced a fragmented urban growth, through lots and suburbs, often under speculative pressure and unplanned self-construction as new land is made available and has access to service infrastructure [5].Documenting the growth of a city can be very useful if the drawings are made with further purpose than observing formal chronological aspects of the architectural background [6]. Adding other backgrounds and variables to cross evaluate and analyse gives a better understanding of unforeseen growth tendencies and brings up otherwise hidden deficiencies of the urban service networks in the different areas of the city. This information is very valuable when establishing sustainable urban planning criteria [7,8], Herce and Miró Farellons suggest five development lines to reformulate urban models from a sustainability standpoint [9]. These include relating service infrastructure with land use in order to increase efficiency.The study of anthropization together with infrastructure growth is an essential tool to assess the state of a city and determine actions to bolster its sustainability based on economic parameters (economic accessibility, production, private sector, public services, jobs); environmental parameters (agriculture, water, air, energy, environmental management, resources, waste, noise); social parameters (quality of life, environmental education, population, identity, social inclusion, participation, safety, and health); and urban parameters (equipment, street furniture, green areas, planning and management, land, transportation) [10][11][12]. In this context, urban infrastructure includes transportation networks, fresh water and sewers networks, power network, and information network, as well as the managemen...

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Anthropization and Growth of the Electricity Grid as Variables for the Analysis of Urban Infrastructure

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“…When engaging with resilience issues in the context of climate change, they typically express concern for vulnerable communities. Research topics can thus include the (un)equal distribution of environmental burdens, struggles for recognition, claims to participation, and unequal impacts of anthropogenic climate change (Braun, 2014;Yanarella and Levine, 2014;Skillington, 2015;Sjöstedt, 2015;Weichselgartner and Kelman, 2015;Pizzo, 2015;Lockie, 2016;Derickson, 2016;Lyster, 2017;Schlosberg et al, 2017;Mummery and Mummery, 2019). Davoudi (2018, p. 5), for instance, problematize the very notion of "resilience", pointing out that there are "unjust resilience building programs" that not only neglect disadvantaged communities, but also create "resilient enclaves" for "privileged elites".…”

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Review article: Towards a context-driven research: a state-of-the-art review of resilience research on climate change

Ossewaarde

Filatova

Georgiadou

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Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract. The twofold aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the current state of resilience research with regard to climate change in the social sciences and propose a research agenda. Resilience research among social scientists is characterized by much more diversity today than a few decades ago. Different definitions and understandings of resilience appear in publications during the last 10 years. Resilience research increasingly bears the mark of social constructivism, a relative newcomer compared to the more long-standing tradition of naturalism. There are also approaches that are indebted to both “naturalism” and “constructivism”, which, of course, come in many varieties. Based on our overview of recent scholarship, which is far from being exhaustive, we have identified six research avenues that arguably deserve continued attention. They combine naturalist and constructivist insights and approaches so that human agency, reflexivity, and considerations of justice and equity are incorporated into systems thinking research or supplement such research. Ultimately, we believe that the overarching challenge for future research is to ensure that resilience to climate change does not compromise sustainability and considerations of justice (including environmental, climate, and energy justice).

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“…ABM may be a valuable tool for developing procedural stability, environmental risk management under conditions of uncertainty, provision of planning security, and prevention of adverse consequences from disruptive shocks (Schilling, Wyss & Binder, 2018). Constructivist resilience research has the great merit of providing a critical and most penetrating understanding of resilience as a political phenomenon that contains political intention and direction.…”

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“…CC BY 4.0 License. Lockie, 2016;VanderPlaat, 2016;Schilling, Wyss & Binder, 2018;Glaser et al, 2018;Ribault, 2019).…”

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Review article: Towards a context-driven research: a state-of-the-art review of resilience research on climate change

Ossewaarde¹,

Filatova²,

Georgiadou³

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Abstract. Since the 1970s, Holling's socio-ecological systems (SES) approach has been a most predominant theoretical force in resilience research in the context of the climate crisis. From Holling's approach, however, two contrasting scientific approaches to resilience have developed, namely, naturalism and constructivism. While naturalist resilience research takes SES as complex systems marked by non-linearity and evolutionary changes, constructivist resilience research focuses on the embeddedness of SES in heterogenous contexts. In naturalist resilience research resilience is defined as a system property, while in constructivist resilience research resilience is politically loaded and historically contingent. The aim of this paper is to review and structure current developments in resilience research in the field of climate change studies, in terms of the approaches, definitions, models and commitments that are typical for naturalism and constructivism; identify the key tension between naturalist and constructivist resilience research in terms of the widely discussed issue of adaptation and transformation, and discuss its implications for sustainable development; and propose a research agenda of topics distilled from the adaptation-transformation tension between naturalist and constructivist resilience research.

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The Resilience of Sustainability Transitions

Cited by 30 publications

References 58 publications

Anthropization and Growth of the Electricity Grid as Variables for the Analysis of Urban Infrastructure

Anthropization and Growth of the Electricity Grid as Variables for the Analysis of Urban Infrastructure

Review article: Towards a context-driven research: a state-of-the-art review of resilience research on climate change

Review article: Towards a context-driven research: a state-of-the-art review of resilience research on climate change

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