Reflexive co-production for urban resilience: Guiding framework and experiences from Austin, Texas
The growing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events have placed cities at the forefront of the human, social, economic, and ecological impacts of climate change. Extreme heat, extended freeze, excessive precipitation, and/or prolong drought impacts neighborhoods disproportionately across h...
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| author | R. Patrick Bixler Marc Coudert Steven M. Richter Jessica M. Jones Carmen Llanes Pulido Nika Akhavan Matt Bartos Paola Passalacqua Dev Niyogi |
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| description | The growing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events have placed cities at the forefront of the human, social, economic, and ecological impacts of climate change. Extreme heat, extended freeze, excessive precipitation, and/or prolong drought impacts neighborhoods disproportionately across heterogenous urban geographies. Underserved, underrepresented, and marginalized communities are more likely to bear the burden of increased exposure to adverse climate impacts while simultaneously facing power asymmetries in access to the policy and knowledge production process. Knowledge co-production is one framework that seeks to address this convergence of disproportionate climate impact exposure and disenfranchised communities. Co-production is increasingly used in sustainability and resilience research to ask questions and develop solutions with, by, and for those communities that are most impacted. By weaving research, planning, evaluation, and policy in an iterative cycle, knowledge and action can be more closely coupled. However, the practice of co-production often lacks reflexivity in ways that can transform the science and policy of urban resilience to address equity more directly. With this, we ask what kind of co-production mechanism encourage academic and non-academic partners to reflect and scrutinize their underlying assumptions, existing institutional arrangements, and practices? How can these efforts identify and acknowledge the contradictions of co-production to reduce climate impacts in vulnerable communities? This paper presents a framework for reflexive co-production and assesses three modes of co-production for urban resilience in Austin, Texas, USA. These include a multi-hazard risk mapping initiative, a resident-driven community indicator system for adaptive capacity, and a neighborhood household preparedness guide. We establish a set of functional and transformational criteria from which to evaluate co-production and assess each initiative across the criteria. We conclude with some recommendations that can advance reflexive co-production for urban resilience. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-267ca66f622e4ee4842f94aa35bf45742022-12-22T04:40:59ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Sustainable Cities2624-96342022-12-01410.3389/frsc.2022.10156301015630Reflexive co-production for urban resilience: Guiding framework and experiences from Austin, TexasR. Patrick Bixler0Marc Coudert1Steven M. Richter2Jessica M. Jones3Carmen Llanes Pulido4Nika Akhavan5Matt Bartos6Paola Passalacqua7Dev Niyogi8Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United StatesOffice of Sustainability, Austin, TX, United StatesEast Carolina University, Greenville, NC, United StatesLyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United StatesGo! Austin/Vamos! Austin, Austin, MN, United StatesGo! Austin/Vamos! Austin, Austin, MN, United StatesDepartment of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, MN, United StatesDepartment of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, MN, United StatesJackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United StatesThe growing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events have placed cities at the forefront of the human, social, economic, and ecological impacts of climate change. Extreme heat, extended freeze, excessive precipitation, and/or prolong drought impacts neighborhoods disproportionately across heterogenous urban geographies. Underserved, underrepresented, and marginalized communities are more likely to bear the burden of increased exposure to adverse climate impacts while simultaneously facing power asymmetries in access to the policy and knowledge production process. Knowledge co-production is one framework that seeks to address this convergence of disproportionate climate impact exposure and disenfranchised communities. Co-production is increasingly used in sustainability and resilience research to ask questions and develop solutions with, by, and for those communities that are most impacted. By weaving research, planning, evaluation, and policy in an iterative cycle, knowledge and action can be more closely coupled. However, the practice of co-production often lacks reflexivity in ways that can transform the science and policy of urban resilience to address equity more directly. With this, we ask what kind of co-production mechanism encourage academic and non-academic partners to reflect and scrutinize their underlying assumptions, existing institutional arrangements, and practices? How can these efforts identify and acknowledge the contradictions of co-production to reduce climate impacts in vulnerable communities? This paper presents a framework for reflexive co-production and assesses three modes of co-production for urban resilience in Austin, Texas, USA. These include a multi-hazard risk mapping initiative, a resident-driven community indicator system for adaptive capacity, and a neighborhood household preparedness guide. We establish a set of functional and transformational criteria from which to evaluate co-production and assess each initiative across the criteria. We conclude with some recommendations that can advance reflexive co-production for urban resilience.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsc.2022.1015630/fullsocial vulnerability and vulnerable populationsco-production and co-learningmulti hazard vulnerabilityclimate adaptationurban resilience |
| spellingShingle | R. Patrick Bixler Marc Coudert Steven M. Richter Jessica M. Jones Carmen Llanes Pulido Nika Akhavan Matt Bartos Paola Passalacqua Dev Niyogi Reflexive co-production for urban resilience: Guiding framework and experiences from Austin, Texas Frontiers in Sustainable Cities social vulnerability and vulnerable populations co-production and co-learning multi hazard vulnerability climate adaptation urban resilience |
| title | Reflexive co-production for urban resilience: Guiding framework and experiences from Austin, Texas |
| title_full | Reflexive co-production for urban resilience: Guiding framework and experiences from Austin, Texas |
| title_fullStr | Reflexive co-production for urban resilience: Guiding framework and experiences from Austin, Texas |
| title_full_unstemmed | Reflexive co-production for urban resilience: Guiding framework and experiences from Austin, Texas |
| title_short | Reflexive co-production for urban resilience: Guiding framework and experiences from Austin, Texas |
| title_sort | reflexive co production for urban resilience guiding framework and experiences from austin texas |
| topic | social vulnerability and vulnerable populations co-production and co-learning multi hazard vulnerability climate adaptation urban resilience |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsc.2022.1015630/full |
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