"Shared learning" for building urban climate resilience-experiences from Asian cities

Sarah Orleans Reed; Richard Friend; Vu C. Toan; Pakamas Thinphanga; Ratri Sutarto; Dilip Singh

doi:10.1177/0956247813501136

"Shared learning" for building urban climate resilience-experiences from Asian cities

Sarah Orleans Reed, Richard Friend, Vu C. Toan, Pakamas Thinphanga, Ratri Sutarto, Dilip Singh

Environment and Geography

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	393-412
Number of pages	20
Journal	Environment and Urbanization
Volume	25
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0956247813501136
Publication status	Published - Oct 2013

Keywords

climate adaptation
learning
participation
resilience
urban planning
urbanization

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