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Urban Studies and Planning

Sustainable Futures Lab Publications

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2021

Governance

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Social, Ecological, And Technological Strategies For Climate Adaptation, Yeowon Kim, Lelani Mannetti, David M. Iwaniec, Nancy B. Grimm, Marta Berbés-Blázquez, Samuel A. Markolf Apr 2021

Social, Ecological, And Technological Strategies For Climate Adaptation, Yeowon Kim, Lelani Mannetti, David M. Iwaniec, Nancy B. Grimm, Marta Berbés-Blázquez, Samuel A. Markolf

Sustainable Futures Lab Publications

Resilient cities are able to persist, grow, and even transform while keeping their essential identities in the face of external forces like climate change, which threatens lives, livelihoods, and the structures and processes of the urban environment (United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, How to make cities more resilient: a handbook for local government leaders. Switzerland, Geneva, 2017). Scenario development is a novel approach to visioning resilient futures for cities. As an instrument for synthesizing data and envisioning urban futures, scenarios combine diverse datasets such as biophysical models, stakeholder perspectives, and demographic information (Carpenter et al. Ecol Soc …


Setting The Stage For Co-Production, Elizabeth Cook, Marta Berbés-Blázquez, Lelani Mannetti, Nancy B. Grimm, David M. Iwaniec, Tischa A. Muñoz-Erickson Apr 2021

Setting The Stage For Co-Production, Elizabeth Cook, Marta Berbés-Blázquez, Lelani Mannetti, Nancy B. Grimm, David M. Iwaniec, Tischa A. Muñoz-Erickson

Sustainable Futures Lab Publications

Participatory scenario visioning aims to expose, integrate, and reconcile perspectives and expectations about a sustainable, resilient future from a variety of actors and stakeholders. This chapter considers the settings in which transdisciplinary participatory visioning takes place, highlighting lessons learned from the Urban Resilience to Extremes Sustainability Research Network (UREx SRN). It reflects on the benefits of engaging in the co-production process and the challenges that must be considered amid this process.