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作者

Sara Meerow;Joshua P. Newell

来源

URBAN GEOGRAPHY,Vol.40,Issue3,P.309-329

语言

英文

关键字

Urban resilience,urban sustainability,social-ecological systems,vulnerability,adaptation,green infrastructure

作者单位

School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

摘要

In academic and policy discourse, the concept of urban resilience is proliferating. Social theorists, especially human geographers, have rightfully criticized that the underlying politics of resilience have been ignored and stress the importance of asking “resilience of what, to what, and for whom?” This paper calls for careful consideration of not just resilience for whom and what, but also where, when, and why. A three-phase process is introduced to enable these “five Ws” to be negotiated collectively and to engender critical reflection on the politics of urban resilience as plans, initiatives, and projects are conceived, discussed, and implemented. Deployed through the hypothetical case of green infrastructure in Los Angeles, the paper concludes by illustrating how resilience planning trade-offs and decisions affect outcomes over space and time, often with significant implications for equity.KEYWORDS: Urban resilience, urban sustainability, social-ecological systems, vulnerability, adaptation, green infrastructureAdditional informationAcknowledgementsThe authors would like to thank the editors of this special issue, V. Kelly Turner and David Kaplan, the anonymous reviewers, and the members of the University of Michigan Interdisciplinary Workshop on Urban Sustainability and Resilience for feedback on an early draft.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.