“Shared learning” for building urban climate resilience – experiences from Asian cities

Sarah O Reed; Richard Friend; Canh Toan Vu; Pakamas Thinphanga; Ratri Sutarto; Dilip Singh

doi:10.1177/0956247813501136

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“Shared learning” for building urban climate resilience – experiences from Asian cities

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“Shared learning” for building urban climate resilience – experiences from Asian cities

Sarah O Reed, Richard Friend, Canh Toan Vu, Pakamas Thinphanga, Ratri Sutarto and Dilip Singh

Environment and Urbanization, Vol.25(2), pp.393-412

2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0956247813501136

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Environmental Science and Management

Urban and Regional Planning

Urban Planning

climate adaptation

learning

participation

resilience

urbanization

This paper considers how resilience thinking and, in particular, its emphasis on learning has been applied in 10 cities in Vietnam, India, Thailand and Indonesia. Applying a "shared learning" approach in the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN) has helped to create or strengthen networks, build appreciation for complexity and uncertainty among stakeholders, provide a space for deliberating concepts such as vulnerability and resilience, and build knowledge and capacities for stakeholders to engage and represent their own interests. Shared learning approaches face considerable challenges navigating politicized urban environments, in which the nature and value of existing systems - and therefore the value of building resilience - are contested. This article suggests that deliberate, strategic intervention by facilitators may contribute to more transformative change on behalf of equitable, socially just outcomes - and thus cautions against seeing urban climate vulnerability as a technical challenge, or shared learning as a "toolkit" for building resilience.

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Title: “Shared learning” for building urban climate resilience – experiences from Asian cities
Authors: Sarah O Reed (Author) - Institute for Social and Environmental Transition (ISET), Vietnam
Richard Friend (Author) - Institute for Social and Environmental Transition (ISET), Thailand
Canh Toan Vu (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts and Business
Pakamas Thinphanga (Author) - Thailand Environmental Institute, Thailand
Ratri Sutarto (Author) - Mercy Corps Indonesia, Indonesia
Dilip Singh (Author) - Institute for Social and Environmental Transition (ISET), India
Publication details: Environment and Urbanization, Vol.25(2), pp.393-412
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd.
Date published: 2013
DOI: 10.1177/0956247813501136
ISSN: 0956-2478
Organisation Unit: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99447770502621
Output Type: Journal article