Pelling, Mark;
Comelli, Thaisa;
Cordova, Marco;
Kalaycioğlu, Sibel;
Menoscal, Jonathan;
Upadhyaya, Rachana;
Garschagen, Matthias;
(2023)
Normative future visioning for city resilience and development.
Climate and Development
10.1080/17565529.2023.2223564.
(In press).
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Abstract
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.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Normative future visioning for city resilience and development |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/17565529.2023.2223564 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2023.2223564 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis GroupThis is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, dis-tribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in arepository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
| Keywords: | Normative future visioning; multi-stakeholder planning; climate change adaptation; transformation; inclusion; urban resilience; cities |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Inst for Risk and Disaster Reduction |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10177740 |
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