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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Westman, Linda
• Patterson, James
• Macrorie, Rachel
• Orr, Christopher J.
• Ashcraft, Catherine M.
• Castán Broto, Vanesa
• Dolan, Dana
• Gupta, Mukesh
• van der Heijden, Jeroen
• Hickmann, Thomas
• Hobbins, Robert
• Papin, Marielle
• Robin, Enora
• Rosan, Christina
• Torrens, Jonas
• Webb, Robert

Titel

Compound urban crises

Ist Teil von

• Ambio, 2022-06, Vol.51 (6), p.1402-1415

Ort / Verlag

Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

SpringerLink (Online service)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 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.