Jessie Briggs
Biographic Data
| ID | 3780065 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jessie Briggs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jessie |
| FAMILY NAME | Briggs |
| SIGNATURE | BRIGGS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A research-based, practice-relevant urban resilience framework for local government
Urban resilience has rapidly developed as a concept to assist urban actors to prepare for, and respond to, shocks and stresses experienced in cities. Urban resilience has been variously defined, and abstract and nebulous resilience concepts can be difficult to apply in practice. Through a research-practice partnership we sought to clarify the concept of urban resilience and make it applicable to the multi-sectoral work of local government in Aust…
Whose City Benchmarks ? The Role of the Critical Urbanist in Comparative Urban Measuring
By way of rejoinder to the commentaries on our intervention by a selection of urban scholars, we expand the discussion on the nature of scholarly engagement with comparative city benchmarking and the practitioners and interests that underpin it beyond academia. While the short-termist, competitive and data-driven assumptions that suffuse benchmarking activity warrant clear and well-informed criticism, we argue that there is a place for critical a…
Taking City Rankings Seriously
Who cares if our case study city has dropped a place in the so-and-so list of such-and-such cities? Whilst city rankings are soaring to popularity in media reports and everyday practitioner parlance in municipalities and the consulting world, benchmarking exercises raise more than a few eyebrows within the field of urban studies. As we argue here, whilst not condoning the superficiality of some of these indices, this is an important problem that …
The emerging addition of resilience as a component of sustainability in urban policy
The emerging addition of resilience as a component of sustainability in urban policy
Taking City Rankings Seriously
Who cares if our case study city has dropped a place in the so-and-so list of such-and-such cities? Whilst city rankings are soaring to popularity in media reports and everyday practitioner parlance in municipalities and the consulting world, benchmarking exercises raise more than a few eyebrows within the field of urban studies. As we argue here, whilst not condoning the superficiality of some of these indices, this is an important problem that …
The emerging addition of resilience as a component of sustainability in urban policy
Whose City Benchmarks ? The Role of the Critical Urbanist in Comparative Urban Measuring
By way of rejoinder to the commentaries on our intervention by a selection of urban scholars, we expand the discussion on the nature of scholarly engagement with comparative city benchmarking and the practitioners and interests that underpin it beyond academia. While the short-termist, competitive and data-driven assumptions that suffuse benchmarking activity warrant clear and well-informed criticism, we argue that there is a place for critical a…
Taking City Rankings Seriously
Who cares if our case study city has dropped a place in the so-and-so list of such-and-such cities? Whilst city rankings are soaring to popularity in media reports and everyday practitioner parlance in municipalities and the consulting world, benchmarking exercises raise more than a few eyebrows within the field of urban studies. As we argue here, whilst not condoning the superficiality of some of these indices, this is an important problem that …
A research-based, practice-relevant urban resilience framework for local government
Urban resilience has rapidly developed as a concept to assist urban actors to prepare for, and respond to, shocks and stresses experienced in cities. Urban resilience has been variously defined, and abstract and nebulous resilience concepts can be difficult to apply in practice. Through a research-practice partnership we sought to clarify the concept of urban resilience and make it applicable to the multi-sectoral work of local government in Aust…
Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Geography (3 works) · Architecture (2 works) · Benchmarking (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (2 works) · Ecology (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Environmental planning (2 works)