Constructing resilience at three scales
The 100 Resilient Cities programme, Durban's resilience journey and water resilience in the Palmiet Catchment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12978916 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Catherine Sutherland (0000-0002-0415-5232, University of KwaZulu-Natal, corresponding author), Debra Roberts (0000-0002-9595-4792, eThekwini Municipality), Jo Douwes (eThekwini Municipality) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 33-49 |
| Publication date | 2019-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1942-7786 • E-ISSN: 2633-674X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/194277861901200103 |
| OpenAlex | W2947278233 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 24 |
Resilience is a ‘re-emerging concept’ which is being applied to deal with the shocks and stresses facing society and the environment as a result of both human induced and physical hazards. Resilience thinking is shaping policy and practice across the world through global programmes such as the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR)'s Making Cities Resilient Campaign; UN Habitat's City Resilience Profiling Programme; and Rockefeller Foundation's 100 Resilient Cities (100 RC). The global post-2015 sustainable development and climate change frameworks and related agreements all have resilience embedded in them. However, the concept of resilience remains contested, with resilience reflecting a continuum of approaches from those that are more deliberative, political, systemic, relational and transformational, to those that are more consultative, post-political, systems based, sectoral and instrumental. Questions of how resilience is being constructed, by whom and for whom therefore need to be explored. This paper focuses on the construction of resilience at three scales: The Rockefeller Foundation's 100 Resilient Cities (100RC) programme (global), Phase 1 of Durban's 100RC journey (city), and the Palmiet Catchment Rehabilitation Project (sub-catchment within a city). It presents the different approaches adopted by global, city-scale and local programmes to build resilience using different framings, approaches and methodologies
Civil engineering · Disaster risk reduction · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Geography · Political science · Politics · Resilience (materials science · Sociology · Urban planning · Urban resilience · Disaster Management and Resilience · Engineering · Environmental Science · Flood Risk Assessment and Management · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
Integrating resilience and sustainability
Using local and indigenous knowledge in selecting indicators for mapping flood vulnerability in informal settlement contexts
Closing the Gap Between Urban Planning and Urban Ecology
Governing river rehabilitation projects for transformative capacity development
Resilience and the Sustainable Development Goals
Strengths and weaknesses of the 100 Resilient Cities Initiative in Southern Europe
Exploring social processes in transformation
Ecological performance standards for regenerative urban design
Reflecting on climate change education (CCE) initiatives for mitigation and adaptation in South Africa
Durban’s 100 Resilient Cities journey
Resilience counter-currents
On the possibility of ‘Just Resilience
The rise of chief resilience officers in U.S. cities
Countering urban binaries within a third space
Sustainable development goals for people and planet
The New World of the Anthropocene
The “Anthropocene”
Defining the Anthropocene
Planetary boundaries
Conceptualizing ‘the Urban’ Through the Lens of Durban, South Africa
Organizations in World Risk Society
A place-based model for understanding community resilience to natural disasters
Exploring ecosystem-based adaptation in Durban, South Africa
Transformational resilience thinking
Urban Political Ecology, Justice and the Politics of Scale
Psychosocial resilience and protective mechanisms
Ulrich Beck, `Risk Society' and the Media
Risk society
Understanding Environmental Policy Processes
The Anthropocene
Resilience and responsibility
A New Urban Dispositif? Governing Life in an Age of Climate Change
Planetary Boundaries
Experiences applying the climate resilience framework
| Citations per year | 2.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |