Urban Resilience Thinking for Municipalities

dc.contributor.authorHarrison, Philip
dc.contributor.authorBobbins, Kerry
dc.contributor.authorCulwick, Christina
dc.contributor.authorHumby, Tracy-Lynn
dc.contributor.authorLa Mantia, Costanza
dc.contributor.authorTodes, Alison
dc.contributor.authorWeakley, Dylan
dc.date.accessioned2015-03-03T08:42:39Z
dc.date.available2015-03-03T08:42:39Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.departmentPlanning
dc.description.abstractThis document was prepared as a contribution to the Department of Science and Technology’s (DST’s) Grand Challenge on Global Change and as a complement to flagship initiatives such as the South African Risk and Vulnerability Atlas project (Archer, et al., 2010). The Global Change Grand Challenge is aimed at “supporting knowledge generation and technological innovation that will enable South Africa, Africa, and the world, to respond to global environmental change, including climate change” (Archer, et al., 2010, p. ii). While the Grand Challenge highlights the importance of science in supporting South Africa’s response to global change, it extends beyond a purely biophysical focus to acknowledge the importance of the social sciences. There is a clear understanding that the most compelling responses to global change will come through the combined efforts of the natural and social sciences. The DST therefore supports a number of research programmes across South Africa that draw on a wide range of scientific and academic fields in responding to specific challenges of global change across rural and urban –South Africa. One of the key thematic areas supported through the Grand Challenge is “urban resilience”. This is not at the expense of work on rural areas, as there are also a number of research programmes targeting rural South Africa, but it is recognition of both the threats posed by poorly managed urban areas and of the opportunities that towns and cities offer for greater resilience and sustainability.en_ZA
dc.description.sponsorshipGlobal Change and Sustainability Research Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand, the Department of Science and Technology, and the National Research Foundation, South Africaen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationHarrison, Philip et al. 2014. Urban Resilience Thinking for Municipalities. University of the Witwatersrand, Gauteng City-Region Observatoryen_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10539/17082
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherUniversity of the Witwatersrand, Gauteng City-Region Observatoryen_ZA
dc.relation.ispartofseriesGauteng City Region Observatory (GCRO); Global Change and Sustainability Research Institute (GCSRI);
dc.subjectResilient Urban Systemsen_ZA
dc.subjectSustainability and Resilienceen_ZA
dc.subjectEcological Resilience; social-ecological systems;en_ZA
dc.titleUrban Resilience Thinking for Municipalitiesen_ZA
dc.typeOtheren_ZA
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