Abstract
Current debate on the implementation of resilience in addressing climatic impacts calls for more pragmatic means of reducing losses. In this study we aimed to generate context-specific knowledge about resilience factors for addressing the impacts of drought, with the expectation that bringing forth experiential knowledge on how impacts were addressed in the past would shed light on what constitutes key resilience factors for practitioners working in urban contexts. The study was carried in three of the largest cities in Chile: Santiago, Concepción, and Valdivia. The analytical framework consists of urban and regional resilience incorporating transdisciplinary approaches applying the Resilience-Wheel tool, combined with participatory methods for the co-production of knowledge and qualitative content analysis of documents and workshops. Results show that key determinants of building resilience to drought were: improving education and access to information, enhancing preparedness, promoting technology transfer, reinforcing organizational linkages and collaboration, decentralizing governance, and encouraging citizen participation. The Resilience-Wheel was useful for navigating the conceptual complexity and diversity of perspectives inherent among social actors. The transdisciplinary approach allowed us to co-produce key knowledge that can be applied to build resilience in future, through a bottom-up approach that bridges the science–policy interface.
Highlights
As a concept, ‘resilience’ has increasingly influenced many fields of research, including climate change, and gained significant traction in a number of policy domains [1,2,3]
The concept of resilience becomes more specific when linked to a particular field or study object, but a heterogeneity of perspectives rooted in different research traditions is still a common feature in the literature on urban and regional resilience, similar to what is observed when applying resilience in a more general fashion [14,17]
They account for the way in which resilience has been defined and applied, identify a conceptual basis of resilience theory, systematize key determinants and attributes of resilience, and, inspired by the “Adaptive Capacity-Wheel” [21], present the ‘Resilience-Wheel’, a tool proposed for practical application in resilience building and assessment
Summary
As a concept, ‘resilience’ has increasingly influenced many fields of research, including climate change, and gained significant traction in a number of policy domains [1,2,3]. Several authors have proposed different approaches for navigating diverse forms of resilience in theory and practice by providing detailed reviews of the concept and its components [7,10,11,12,13]. The concept of resilience becomes more specific when linked to a particular field or study object (such as cities or regions), but a heterogeneity of perspectives rooted in different research traditions is still a common feature in the literature on urban and regional resilience, similar to what is observed when applying resilience in a more general fashion [14,17]. Aldunce and co-workers [13] analyze the use of resilience in the context of climate change.
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