Community Resilience to Climate Change: Theory, Research and Practice

TABLE OF CONTENTS SECTION I: INTRODUCTION & KEY CONCEPTS.......................................................................................................................................................1 Student Exercises & Classroom Activities.............................................................................................................................................................................................4 Reading List....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................5 “Cities and climate change: The precedents and why they matter” (Hebbert & Jankovic).....................................................................................................6 “Resilienceforwhom?Theproblemstructuringprocessoftheresilienceanalysis”(Herrera)................................................................................................17 SECTION II: RESILIENCE IN THEORY.....................................................................................................................................................................31 Reading List.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................33 Student Exercises & Classroom Activities..........................................................................................................................................................................................34 “Resilience thinking: Integrating resilience, adaptability and transformability” (Folke et al.)..............................................................................................35 “General resilience to cope with extreme events” (Carpenter et al.)..........................................................................................................................................42 “Focusing the meaning(s) of resilience: Resilience as a descriptive concept and a boundary object” (Brand & Jax)...................................................50 “Climate change resilience strategies for the building sector: Examining existing domains of resilience utilized by design professionals” (Rajkovic & Okour)......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................63 “Comparing conceptualizations of urban climate resilience in theory and practice” (Meerow & Stults).........................................................................74 SECTION III: IDENTIFYING & EVALUATING RESILIENCE......................................................................................................................................88 Reading List.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................90 Student Exercises & Classroom Activities..........................................................................................................................................................................................91 “Conceptualizing community resilience to natural hazards – the emBRACE framework” (Kruse et al.).........................................................................92 “Indicators for monitoring urban climate change resilience and adaptation” (Feldmeyer et al.)......................................................................................106 “Subjective measures of household resilience to climate variability and change: Insights from a nationally representative survey of Tanzania” (Jones et al.)...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................121 “Measuring household resilience to floods: A case study in the Vietnamese Mekong River Delta” (Nguyen & James)..........................................136 “Assessing Vulnerability to Urban Heat: A Study of Disproportionate Heat Exposure and Access to Refuge by Socio-Demographic Status in Portland, OR” (Voelkel et al.).................................................................................................................................................................................................................149 SECTION IV: RESILIENCE IN PRACTICE...............................................................................................................................................................161 Reading List...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................163 Student Exercises & Classroom Activities.......................................................................................................................................................................................164 “Measuring resilience is not enough; we must apply the research. Researchers and practitioners need a common language to make this happen” (Glandon)...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................165 “Translating disaster resilience into spatial planning practice in South Africa: Challenges and champions” (van Niekerk)....................................171 “Ensuring resilience of natural resources under exposure to extreme climate events” (Jacobs et al.)..........................................................................178 SECTION V: FUTURE DIRECTIONS......................................................................................................................................................................194 Reading List...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................196 Student Exercises & Classroom Activities........................................................................................................................................................................................197 “Climate change: Implications for the assumptions, goals and methods of urban environmental planning” (Hill)...................................................198 “Uniting resilience research and practice with an inequalities approach” (Hart et al.).......................................................................................................209 “Justice in urban climate change adaptation: Criteria and application to Delhi” (Hughes)................................................................................................222 “Social justice and adaptation in the UK” (Benzie)..........................................................................................................................................................................236 SECTION VI: CONCLUSIONS................................................................................................................................................................................249 Conclusions & Further Reading...........................................................................................................................................................................................................250 Student Exercises & Sample Final Project........................................................................................................................................................................................251