Talk – 'Planning For Urban Resilience in a Changing Climate'
Urban scholars and policymakers are increasingly focused on enhancing resilience in the face of climate change and other threats, but what does this really mean? The widespread popularity of the resilience agenda suggests that it has broad appeal and may even serve as a boundary object. However, it has also prompted criticisms that urban resilience is a fuzzy and contested term and some scholars now reject resilience altogether.
Sara Meerow, an assistant professor in the Arizona State University School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, will discuss research that attempts to address some of the common critiques by: 1.) making sense of how conceptualizations of resilience differ in and across the academic literature, U.S. local officials, and the broader public, 2.) analyzing how cities are putting resilience into practice in different U.S. cities, and 3.) examining to what extent these efforts address equity and are truly transformative.