Resilience and the Sustainable Development Goals: a scrutiny of urban strategies in the 100 Resilient Cities initiative
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T1 - Resilience and the Sustainable Development Goals
T2 - a scrutiny of urban strategies in the 100 Resilient Cities initiative
AU - Kochskämper, Elisa
AU - Glass, Lisa-Maria
AU - Haupt, Wolfgang
AU - Malekpour, Shirin
AU - Grainger-Brown, Jarrod
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2024/1/24
Y1 - 2024/1/24
N2 - In the last decades, discourse and practice on urban transformation have centered around the concepts of sustainability and resilience. However, resilience in a narrow understanding–i.e. protecting the status quo–can contradict sustainable development. The 100 Resilient Cities exemplify a network in which cities actively pursued adaptation to future challenges in a way that could link resilience and sustainability. In this article, we analyze the resilience strategies of cities in this network against the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to understand the extent to which they consider sustainable development simultaneously. Overall, we find a positive trend towards resilience and sustainable development in urban strategies, particularly in the Global South. However, cities’ resilience efforts often prioritize economic goals over social and environmental objectives. This contrasts with the call for transformative actions to achieve the SDGs.
AB - In the last decades, discourse and practice on urban transformation have centered around the concepts of sustainability and resilience. However, resilience in a narrow understanding–i.e. protecting the status quo–can contradict sustainable development. The 100 Resilient Cities exemplify a network in which cities actively pursued adaptation to future challenges in a way that could link resilience and sustainability. In this article, we analyze the resilience strategies of cities in this network against the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to understand the extent to which they consider sustainable development simultaneously. Overall, we find a positive trend towards resilience and sustainable development in urban strategies, particularly in the Global South. However, cities’ resilience efforts often prioritize economic goals over social and environmental objectives. This contrasts with the call for transformative actions to achieve the SDGs.
KW - city transformation index
KW - comparative analysis
KW - resilience
KW - sustainable development
KW - urban governance
KW - Environmental Governance
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U2 - 10.1080/09640568.2023.2297648
DO - 10.1080/09640568.2023.2297648
M3 - Journal articles
AN - SCOPUS:85182994339
JO - Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
JF - Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
SN - 0964-0568
ER -