IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/cpprxx/v28y2013i3p307-322.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Evolutionary Resilience and Strategies for Climate Adaptation

Author

Listed:
  • Simin Davoudi
  • Elizabeth Brooks
  • Abid Mehmood

Abstract

The aim of this study is to develop a framework by drawing on three broad perspectives on resilience, engineering, ecological and evolutionary, and to use this framework to critically examine the approach adopted by the draft London climate change adaptation strategy. The central argument of the study is that the Strategy's emergency planning-centred approach to climate adaptation veers between a standard ecological understanding of resilience and the more rigid engineering model. Its emphasis is on identifying 'exposure' and 'vulnerability' to risk from climate events and on bouncing back from the consequences of such exposures to a normal state, rather than on the dynamic process of transformation to a more desirable trajectory. The study concludes that fostering resilience involves planning for not only recovery from shocks but also cultivating preparedness, and seeking potential transformative opportunities which emerge from change.

Suggested Citation

  • Simin Davoudi & Elizabeth Brooks & Abid Mehmood, 2013. "Evolutionary Resilience and Strategies for Climate Adaptation," Planning Practice & Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 28(3), pages 307-322, June.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:cpprxx:v:28:y:2013:i:3:p:307-322
    DOI: 10.1080/02697459.2013.787695
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/02697459.2013.787695
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/02697459.2013.787695?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:cpprxx:v:28:y:2013:i:3:p:307-322. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/cppr20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.