361R_Resilience and the Sustainable Development Goals: a scrutiny of urban strategies in the 100 Resilient Cities initiative (research debate)
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Are you interested in resilience as bouncing forward?
Debate of the article titled Resilience and the Sustainable Development Goals: a scrutiny of urban strategies in the 100 Resilient Cities initiative from 2024, by Elisa Kochskämper, Lisa-Maria Glass, Wolfgang Haupt, Shirin Malekpour and Jarrod Grainger-Brown, published in the Journal of Environmental Planning and Management.
This is a great preparation to our next interview with Sam Kernaghan in episode 362 talking about resilience as bouncing forward based on the 100 Resilient Cities Program.
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how resilience is implemented in reality. This article proves the positive correlation between resilience and sustainable development planning with additional steps to improve on the process.
Find the article through this link.
Abstract: In the last decades, discourse and practice on urban transformation have centered around the concepts of sustainability and resilience. However, resilience in a narrow understanding – i.e. protecting the status quo – can contradict sustainable development. The 100 Resilient Cities exemplify a network in which cities actively pursued adaptation to future challenges in a way that could link resilience and sustainability. In this article, we analyze the resilience strategies of cities in this network against the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to understand the extent to which they consider sustainable development simultaneously. Overall, we find a positive trend towards resilience and sustainable development in urban strategies, particularly in the Global South. However, cities’ resilience efforts often prioritize economic goals over social and environmental objectives. This contrasts with the call for transformative actions to achieve the SDGs.
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