Normative future visioning for city resilience and development


Pelling M., Comelli T., Cordova M., Kalaycioğlu S., Menoscal J., Upadhyaya R., ...Daha Fazla

Climate and Development, cilt.16, sa.4, ss.335-348, 2024 (SSCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 16 Sayı: 4
  • Basım Tarihi: 2024
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1080/17565529.2023.2223564
  • Dergi Adı: Climate and Development
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, Applied Science & Technology Source, Aquatic Science & Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA), CAB Abstracts, Environment Index, Geobase, Greenfile, INSPEC, Veterinary Science Database
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.335-348
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: cities, climate change adaptation, inclusion, multi-stakeholder planning, Normative future visioning, transformation, urban resilience
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

This paper argues for normative visioning as an underdeveloped component of adaptation planning. Multi-stakeholder and normative approaches to future visioning offer generative moments when creativity can meet the power to act required for critical, including transformative, adaptation. Including normative methods with community and city actors in adaptation planning allows for alternative narratives of development to arise as a basis for deeper conversation and potential action on the root causes of vulnerability and risk. A specific visioning approach is tested for four megacities–Istanbul, Kathmandu, Nairobi and Quito. Relations between current and future states of development and resilience are found to be both aligned (congruent or contingent) and in opposition (countervailing or constrained) shaping strategy for policy setting. These data are combined with additional work from London, Kolkata, New York and Lagos to pilot a City Resilience Challenge Index (CRCI), indicating to policy-makers whether and how cities are currently moving away from, rather than towards, envisioned trajectories of vulnerability reduction and adaptation. In the future, the CRCI might provide a global tool to track the progress of cities towards climate resilient development and, by doing so, to increase ambition and galvanize action.