打印

作者

来源

ENVIRONMENT AND URBANIZATION,Vol.29,Issue1,P.123-138

语言

英文

关键字

African cities; rights and entitlements; risk; social justice; urban resilience; AFRICAN URBANISM; CLIMATE-CHANGE; ADAPTATION; NEOLIBERALISM; VULNERABILITY; AGENDA; CITIES; SCALE; SOUTH; CITY

作者单位

[Ziervogel, Gina; Pasquini, Lorena] Univ Cape Town, Dept Environm & Geog Sci, African Climate & Dev Initiat, Cape Town, South Africa. [Pelling, Mark] Kings Coll London, Dept Geog, London WC2R 2LS, England. [Cartwright, Anton] Univ Cape Town, African Ctr Cities, Cape Town, South Africa. [Chu, Eric] Univ Amsterdam, Dept Geog Planning & Int Dev Studies, Amsterdam, Netherlands. [Deshpande, Tanvi] Indian Inst Human Settlements, Bangalore, Karnataka, India. [Harris, Leila; Rodina, Lucy] Univ British Columbia, Inst Resources Environm & Sustainabil, Vancouver, BC, Canada. [Harris, Leila] Stellenbosch Univ, Inst Adv Studies, Stellenbosch, South Africa. [Hyams, Keith] Univ Warwick, Dept Polit & Int Relat, Coventry, W Midlands, England. [Kaunda, Jean] Mzuzu Univ, Dept Biomed Sci, Mzuzu, Malawi. [Klaus, Benjamin] ALAT, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. [Michael, Kavya] IIHS, Bangalore, Karnataka, India. [Pharoah, Robyn; Zweig, Patricia] Stellenbosch Univ, Res Alliance Disaster & Risk Reduct RADAR, Dept Geog & Environm Studies, Stellenbosch, South Africa. [Scott, Dianne] Univ Cape Town, Dept Environm & Geog Sci, Cape Town, South Africa. Pelling, M (reprint author), Kings Coll London, Dept Geog, London WC2R 2LS, England. E-Mail: gina@csag.uct.ac.za; mark.pelling@kcl.ac.uk; anton@econologic.co.za; E.K.Chu@uva.nl; tdeshpande@iihs.ac.in; lharris@ires.ubc.ca; K.D.Hyams@warwick.ac.uk; kaundajean@hotmail.com; benjamin.klaus@cimonline.de; kmichael@iihs.ac.in; lorena.pasquini@gmail.com; robynpharoah@sun.ac.za; lucy.rodina@gmail.com; diannescott.dbn@gmail.com; patriciazweig@sun.ac.za

摘要

Resilience building has become a growing policy agenda, particularly for urban risk management. While much of the resilience agenda has been shaped by policies and discourses from the global North, its applicability for cities of the global South, particularly African cities, has not been sufficiently assessed. Focusing on rights of urban citizens as the object to be made resilient, rather than physical and ecological infrastructures, may help to address many of the root causes that characterize the unacceptable risks that urban residents face on a daily basis. Linked to this idea, we discuss four entry points for grounding a rights and justice orientation for urban resilience. First, notions of resilience must move away from narrow, financially oriented risk analyses. Second, opportunities must be created for negotiated resilience, to allow for attention to processes that support these goals, as well as for the integration of diverse interests. Third, achieving resilience in ways that do justice to the local realities of diverse urban contexts necessitates taking into account endogenous, locally situated processes, knowledges and norms. And finally, urban resilience needs to be placed within the context of global systems, providing an opportunity for African contributions to help reimagine the role that cities might play in these global financial, political and science processes.