Liminality of COVID-19: Knowledge to Action

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has increased demands for planning knowledge and skills. Like other disasters, it has also created a liminal space for contemplating knowledge and action and making sense of this crisis. Despite our familiarity with uncertainty and interdisciplinarity with appreciation of normative and positivist approaches in planning, persistent concerns as to equity, justice, and fairness will shape agendas for research, teaching, and practice. While lessons from the pandemic for planning and disaster management have emerged, there are also broader, more complex, and ongoing threats such as climate change, globalization, poverty, and precarity which must also be addressed.