Transcript Urban Chances - City growth and the sustainability

Linking participatory learning and
knowledge management to urban resilience:
introducing the Chance2Sustain programme
Isa Baud
University of Amsterdam
Issues in city growth and sustainble
development
• Large economic projects currently a preferred
strategy in city competitiveness
• What does this do to environmental
sustainability?
• What is the impact on social inequalities?
• How can participatory knowledge management
contribute to more resilient urban development?
• urban governance as essential context
Main focus of project
• how governments and citizens in cities with different
patterns of economic growth use participatory spatial
knowledge management towards more resilient
sustainable development
• Comparing variety of political and economic conditions
in fast-growing cities
• Comparing inclusive social strategies and environmental
approaches and practices conducive to SD
• Develop model on participatory spatial knowledge
management in urban governance contributing to SD
• ten cities across four countries (India, South Africa, Peru
and Brazil)
• Methodology: city case studies, including inter-active
knowledge building with local communities, practitioners
Learning from resilience thinking
• Resilient development= development that
creates, enables and sustain services and
institutions, generating new opportunities for
residents,.. (Dodman 2010).
• Not necessarily ‘bouncing back’ if situation was
very unequal
• Resilience: system redundancy, diversity,
flexibility (not locked in pathways), multi-level
links (landscape, regions, ecosystems),
supporting self-organizing capacity
Partners
European Association of Development Research EADI
and Training Institutes
Amsterdam Institute for Metropolitan and
AMIDST
International Development Studies
French National Center for Scientific Research
CNRS
School of Planning and Architecture
SPA
Cities for Life Forum
FORO
Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento
CEBRAP
Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional
Research
NIBR
University of KwaZulu-Natal
UKZN
Participatory knowledge management:
instrument to increase adaptive capacity
• Recognizing different types of knowledge
– tacit, practice-based, community-based, codified,
scientific
• Analyzing knowledge generation through participatory
processes – setting priorities and their criteria and
recognizing it as political process
• Analyzing ‘ spaces’ : invited, negotiated, claimed
• Participatory spatial mapping – reflecting spatial
diversity, concentrations, relations and realities
Framework
Adapted from Norris et al. 2008