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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

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 …