RISE-UP: Resilience in urban planning for climate uncertainty

RISE-UP: Resilience in urban planning for climate uncertainty: Empirical insights and theoretical reflections from case studies in Amsterdam and Mumbai

Krishnan, S. (TU Delft System Engineering)
Aydin, N.Y. (TU Delft System Engineering)
Comes, M. (TU Delft Transport and Logistics)

2023

Climate change is one of the main drivers of uncertainty in urban planning, but only a few studies systematically address these uncertainties, especially in the long term. Urban resilience theory presents principles to manage uncertainty but largely focuses on individual urban systems rather than complex interdependent dynamics. Further, most planning and resilience theory originates from the Global North and is unsuitable for capturing the dynamics of the Global South. This study uses an exploratory multi-case analysis towards developing an enhanced understanding of urban planning for climate uncertainty. We argue that long-term urban planning for climate uncertainty can benefit from systematically integrating resilience principles. We use a two-step qualitative research approach: (1) To propose a conceptual framework connecting urban resilience principles, approaches to urban planning under uncertainty and planning responses in urban systems. (2) To use the conceptual framework to analyse climate-related planning responses in two contrasting case studies in the Global North (GN) and Global South (GS) (Amsterdam and Mumbai). We conclude with four propositions towards an enhanced understanding of urban planning for climate uncertainty by drawing upon the empirical insights from the two case studies.

urban resilience
Climate change
Urban planning
Cities

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:a68bf1a7-a4e0-40c7-9d0d-1060bb298c88

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2023.104464

0264-2751

Cities: the international journal of urban policy and planning, 141 (0264-2751)

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© 2023 S. Krishnan, N.Y. Aydin, M. Comes