TY - JOUR
T1 - Compound urban crises
AU - Westman, Linda
AU - Patterson, James
AU - Macrorie, Rachel
AU - Orr, Christopher J
AU - Ashcraft, Catherine M.
AU - Broto, Vanesa Castan
AU - Dolan, Dana
AU - Gupta, Mukesh
AU - van der Heijden, Jeroen
AU - Hickmann, Thomas
AU - Hobbins, Robert
AU - Webb, Bob
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - The crises that cities face—such as climate change, pandemics, economic downturn, and racism—are tightly interlinked and cannot be addressed in isolation. This paper addresses compound urban crises as a unique type of problem, in which discrete solutions that tackle each crisis independently are insufficient. Few scholarly debates address compound urban crises and there is, to date, a lack of interdisciplinary insights to inform urban governance responses. Combining ideas from complex adaptive systems and critical urban studies, we develop a set of boundary concepts (unsettlement, unevenness, and unbounding) to understand the complexities of compound urban crises from an interdisciplinary perspective. We employ these concepts to set a research agenda on compound urban crises, highlighting multiple interconnections between urban politics and global dynamics. We conclude by suggesting how these entry points provide a theoretical anchor to develop practical insights to inform and reform urban governance.
AB - The crises that cities face—such as climate change, pandemics, economic downturn, and racism—are tightly interlinked and cannot be addressed in isolation. This paper addresses compound urban crises as a unique type of problem, in which discrete solutions that tackle each crisis independently are insufficient. Few scholarly debates address compound urban crises and there is, to date, a lack of interdisciplinary insights to inform urban governance responses. Combining ideas from complex adaptive systems and critical urban studies, we develop a set of boundary concepts (unsettlement, unevenness, and unbounding) to understand the complexities of compound urban crises from an interdisciplinary perspective. We employ these concepts to set a research agenda on compound urban crises, highlighting multiple interconnections between urban politics and global dynamics. We conclude by suggesting how these entry points provide a theoretical anchor to develop practical insights to inform and reform urban governance.
U2 - 10.1007/s13280-021-01697-6
DO - 10.1007/s13280-021-01697-6
M3 - Article
VL - 51
SP - 1402–1415pp
JO - AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment
JF - AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment
ER -