Smarter greener cities through a social-ecological-technological systems approach
Highlights•Systems approach can guide smart cities to reconnect with urban sustainability.•A
smart initiative is smarter if it connects across all SET subsystems.•Social processes benefit …
smart initiative is smarter if it connects across all SET subsystems.•Social processes benefit …
Transforming US urban green infrastructure planning to address equity
Abstract Cities across the Unites States have embraced green infrastructure (GI) in official
planning efforts. The plans conceptualize GI as providing multiple functions and benefits for …
planning efforts. The plans conceptualize GI as providing multiple functions and benefits for …
Power in resilience and resilience's power in climate change scholarship
Resilience thinking has undergone profound theoretical developments in recent decades,
moving to characterize resilience as a socio‐natural process that requires constant …
moving to characterize resilience as a socio‐natural process that requires constant …
Supporting transformative climate adaptation: community-level capacity building and knowledge co-creation in South Africa
Calls for transformative adaptation to climate change require attention to the type of capacity
building that can support it. Community-level capacity building can help to ensure ownership …
building that can support it. Community-level capacity building can help to ensure ownership …
How deep does justice go? Addressing ecological, indigenous, and infrastructural justice through nature-based solutions in New York City
ZJ Grabowski, K Wijsman, C Tomateo… - Environmental Science & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Scholarship on Nature-based Solutions (NbS) primarily focuses on the potential for
NbS to deliver multiple benefits to humans and biodiversity from networked natural systems …
NbS to deliver multiple benefits to humans and biodiversity from networked natural systems …
Urban futures: Systemic or system changing interventions? A literature review using Meadows' leverage points as analytical framework
C Angheloiu, M Tennant - Cities, 2020 - Elsevier
Urban-led change for sustainability is a key site of intervention in delivering the ambitions of
the Sustainable Development Goals. Within this broad discourse, four umbrella concepts …
the Sustainable Development Goals. Within this broad discourse, four umbrella concepts …
Informality and water justice: community perspectives on water issues in Cape Town's low-income neighbourhoods
Cape Town's water injustices are entrenched by the mismatch between government
interventions and the lived realities in many informal settlements and other low-income …
interventions and the lived realities in many informal settlements and other low-income …
Enabling urban systems transformations: co-developing national and local strategies
Transformative urban development is urgent to achieve future sustainable development and
wellbeing. Transformation can benefit from shared and cumulative learning on strategies to …
wellbeing. Transformation can benefit from shared and cumulative learning on strategies to …
Intersectional subjectivities and climate change adaptation: An attentive analytical approach for examining power, emancipatory processes, and transformation
A Garcia, P Tschakert - Transactions of the Institute of British …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Human geographers and other critical scholars have long emphasised the disproportionate
effects of climate change on individuals and populations already socially and economically …
effects of climate change on individuals and populations already socially and economically …
Redesigning knowledge systems for urban resilience
While studies have suggested that climate change adaptation will require dynamic sets of
knowledge types—scientific, technical, local, and tacit—about complex, interconnected …
knowledge types—scientific, technical, local, and tacit—about complex, interconnected …