TY - CHAP
T1 - A Vision for Resilient Urban Futures
AU - McPhearson, Timon
AU - Iwaniec, David M.
AU - Hamstead, Zoé A.
AU - Berbés-Blázquez, Marta
AU - Cook, Elizabeth M.
AU - Muñoz-Erickson, Tischa A.
AU - Mannetti, Lelani
AU - Grimm, Nancy
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, This is a U.S. government work and not under copyright protection in the U.S.; foreign copyright protection may apply.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - A fundamental systems approach is essential to advancing our understanding of how to address critical challenges caused by the intersection of urbanization and climate change. The social–ecological–technological systems (SETS) conceptual framework brings forward a systems perspective that considers the reality of cities as complex systems and provides a baseline for developing a science of, and practice for, cities. Given the urgency of issues we collectively face to improve livability, justice, sustainability, and resilience in cities, bringing a systems approach to resilience planning and policymaking is critical, as is development of positive visions and scenarios that can provide more realistic and systemic solutions. We provide a vision for more resilient urban futures that learns from coproduced scenario development work in nine US and Latin American cities in the URExSRN. We find that developing an urban systems science that can provide actionable knowledge for decision-making is an emerging, and much needed, transdisciplinary research agenda. It will require true boundary-crossing to bring the knowledge, skills, tools, and ideas together in ways that can help achieve the normative goals and visions we have for our shared urban future.
AB - A fundamental systems approach is essential to advancing our understanding of how to address critical challenges caused by the intersection of urbanization and climate change. The social–ecological–technological systems (SETS) conceptual framework brings forward a systems perspective that considers the reality of cities as complex systems and provides a baseline for developing a science of, and practice for, cities. Given the urgency of issues we collectively face to improve livability, justice, sustainability, and resilience in cities, bringing a systems approach to resilience planning and policymaking is critical, as is development of positive visions and scenarios that can provide more realistic and systemic solutions. We provide a vision for more resilient urban futures that learns from coproduced scenario development work in nine US and Latin American cities in the URExSRN. We find that developing an urban systems science that can provide actionable knowledge for decision-making is an emerging, and much needed, transdisciplinary research agenda. It will require true boundary-crossing to bring the knowledge, skills, tools, and ideas together in ways that can help achieve the normative goals and visions we have for our shared urban future.
KW - Anticipatory resilience
KW - Co-production
KW - Social-ecological-technological systems (SETS)
KW - Urban futures
KW - Urban systems science
KW - Visioning
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-63131-4_12
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-63131-4_12
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85103954521
T3 - Urban Book Series
SP - 173
EP - 186
BT - Urban Book Series
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
ER -