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作者

Angela Connelly;Paul O'Hare;Iain White

来源

CITIES,Vol.106,Issue1,Article 102842

语言

英文

关键字

Flood risk management;Innovation;Adaptive technologies;Climate resilience;Climate change adaptation

作者单位

Chatam 804, Manchester School of Architecture, Manchester Metropolitan University, Oxford Road, Manchester M15 6BH, UK;E415 John Dalton Building, Manchester Metropolitan University, Oxford Road, Manchester M15 6BH, UK;Arts and Social Sciences, The University of Waikato, Hamilton 3240, New Zealand;Chatam 804, Manchester School of Architecture, Manchester Metropolitan University, Oxford Road, Manchester M15 6BH, UK;E415 John Dalton Building, Manchester Metropolitan University, Oxford Road, Manchester M15 6BH, UK;Arts and Social Sciences, The University of Waikato, Hamilton 3240, New Zealand

摘要

The practical operationalisation of resilience within cities is strongly linked to technology, such as better construction materials or redesigning urban form. Institutional and private sector actors often focus on issues relating to the technological innovation journey, such as ‘pathways’ to implementation or ‘barriers’ to market uptake, rather than whether adaptive technologies are the most appropriate resilience solution. These discourses frame urban resilience from the perspective of an innovation journey where technologies are perceived to succeed if there is high uptake. However, given the multi-perspective and multi-scale nature of urban resilience, the idea of ‘success’ inevitably has complex spatial, temporal and scalar dimensions. The paper uses the case of property level flood resilience (PFR) technologies in the United Kingdom to introduce the notion of ‘contingent resilience’ as a means to understand the trade-offs that are part of assessing and evaluating climate resilient technologies. We reveal that there are fundamental contradictions in what is deemed as a ‘success’ depending on who is framing the problem, when the judgement is made, or where the scale of analysis lies. Above all, the paper highlights the importance of illuminating the struggles that do not just define success, but that spatially and temporally redistribute climate resilience in a hidden manner.