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Frontiers in social-ecological urbanism
Colding, J., K. Samuelsson, L. Marcus, Å. Gren, A. Legeby, M. Berghauser Pont. 2022. Frontiers in social-ecological urbanism. Land 11(6):929.
This paper describes a new approach in urban ecological design, referred to as social–ecological urbanism (SEU). It draws from research in resilience thinking and space syntax in the analysis of relationships between urban processes and urban form at the microlevel of cities, where social and ecological services are directly experienced by urban dwellers. The paper elaborates on three types of media for urban designers to...
Urban climate resilience through hybrid infrastructure
Andersson, E., N.B. Grimm, J.A. Lewis, C.L. Redman, S. Barthel, J. Colding, and T. Elmqvist. 2022. Urban climate resilience through hybrid infrastructure. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 55:101158.
Urban infrastructure will require transformative changes to adapt to changing disturbance patterns. We ask what new opportunities hybrid infrastructure—built environments coupled with landscape-scale biophysical structures and processes—offer for building different layers of resilience critical for dealing with increased variation in the frequency, magnitude and different phases of climate-related disturbances. With its more diverse components and different internal logics, hybrid infrastructure opens up alternative and additive...
Promoting resilient and healthy cities for everyone in an urban planning context by assessing green area accessibility
Rostang, O., A. Gren, A. Feinberg, and M. Berghauser Pont. 2021. Promoting resilient and healthy cities for everyone in an urban planning context by assessing green area accessibility. Frontiers in Built Environment 7:797179.
Rapid economic development and population growth has led to urban densification and massive land use changes, putting pressure on both ecosystems, and people. In this context, public health issues have become crucial for cities to address to ensure they remain livable and healthy for everyone. Since the health challenges of cities tend to manifest themselves differently among different population groups—e.g., groups of higher socioeconomic status...
Cities and the biosphere
Folke, C., Å. Gren, J. Larsson, and R. Costanza. 2021. Cities and the biosphere. Ambio 50(9):1634-1635.
Urban Commons and collective action to address climate change
Colding, J., S. Barthel, R. Ljung, F. Eriksson, and S. Sjöberg. 2021. Urban Commons and collective action to address climate change. Social Inclusion 10(1).
Climate change and the coupled loss of ecosystem services pose major collective action problems in that all individuals would benefit from better cooperation to address these problems but conflicting interests and/or incomplete knowledge discourage joint action. Adopting an inductive and multi‐layered approach, drawing upon the authors’ previous research on urban commons, we here summarize key insights on environmentally oriented urban commons and elaborate on what...
Mapping flood risk uncertainty zones in support of Urban Resilience Planning
Brandt, S.A., N.J. Lim, J. Colding, and S. Barthel. 2021. Mapping flood risk uncertainty zones in support of Urban Resilience Planning. Urban Planning 6(3):258-271.
River flooding and urbanization are processes of different character that take place worldwide. As the latter tends to make the consequences of the former worse, together with the uncertainties related to future climate change and flood-risk modeling, there is a need to both use existing tools and develop new ones that help the management and planning of urban environments. In this article a prototype tool,...
Urban green commons for socially sustainable cities and communities
Barthel, S., J. Colding, A.-S. Hiswåls, P. Thalén, and P. Turunen. 2021. Urban green commons for socially sustainable cities and communities. Nordic Social Work Research 12(2):310-322.
Financing resilience efforts to confront future urban and sea-level rise flooding: Are coastal megacities in ASEAN doing enough?
Causevic, A., M. LoCastro, D. David, S. Selvakkumaran and Å. Gren. 2021. Financing resilience efforts to confront future urban and sea-level rise flooding: Are coastal megacities in ASEAN doing enough?. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science 48(5):989-1010.
Continued greenhouse gas emissions will lead to a rise in temperatures, accompanied by rising sea levels threatening low-lying coastal cities. This vulnerability is especially acute in developing countries’ cities. This study reviews whether Bangkok, Manila, and Jakarta, less prepared emerging urban centers of developing countries, are investing in adaptation projects for resilience against sea-level rise and urban flooding. Sea-level rise and urban flooding resilience projects...
Promoting partnership between urban design and urban ecology through social-ecological resilience building
Colding, J., L. Marcus and S. Barthel. 2021. Promoting partnership between urban design and urban ecology through social-ecological resilience building. In: M. Wallhagen and M. Cehlin (Eds.). Urban Transition - Perspectives on Urban Systems and Environments. Intech Open Book Series . Pp. .
A closer partnership between urban design and urban ecology can yield new knowledge with the predictive advancement of both fields. However, achieving such partnership is not always a straight-forward process due to different epistemological departures. This chapter provides a rudimentary background of the fields of urban design and urban ecology and familiarizes readers with some epistemological characteristics that are useful to consider in all forms...
Urbanisation in and for the Anthropocene
Elmqvist, T, E. Andersson, T. McPhearson, X. Bai, L. Bettencourt, E. Brondizio, J. Colding, G. Daily, C. Folke, N. Grimm, D. Haase, D. Ospina, S Parnell, S. Polasky, K.C. Seto, and S. van Der Leeuw. 2021. Urbanisation in and for the Anthropocene. npj Urban Sustainability 1(6).
Key insights on needs in urban regional governance – Global urbanization (the increasing concentration in urban settlements of the increasing world population), is a driver and accelerator of shifts in diversity, new cross-scale interactions, decoupling from ecological processes, increasing risk and exposure to shocks. Responding to the challenges of urbanization demands fresh commitments to a city–regional perspective in ways that are explictly embedded in the...
