Modeling teleconnected urban social–ecological systems: opportunities and challenges for resilience research
Urban social–ecological systems (SESs) have progressively become more interdependent in their information, resource, material, energy and waste flows. The evolution of those systems has been studied through a variety of concepts (including central place theory, urban ‘metabolism’, etc.). New framewo...
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| author | Michail Fragkias Samia Islam Christian Sprague |
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| description | Urban social–ecological systems (SESs) have progressively become more interdependent in their information, resource, material, energy and waste flows. The evolution of those systems has been studied through a variety of concepts (including central place theory, urban ‘metabolism’, etc.). New frameworks on teleconnections have synthesized and extended past theory, but the relevance of the type, degree and spatial structure of the interlinkages for the resilience of urban systems is understudied. We explore the evolving nature of the interlinkages of cities, resource bases and resilience using two approaches: (1) we review literature on urban systems, teleconnections and resilience and (2) we develop scenarios of a stylized network of urban SESs and examine the system-level resilience of each scenario to external shocks using a mathematical biology model. Our results show how factors such as resource consumption, extraction and population migration drive system-wide resilience at different levels of teleconnection of urban systems. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4c06fe2456404d4aaaaaf0ec2ae3c74f2023-09-21T15:17:06ZengTaylor & Francis GroupInternational Journal of Urban Sustainable Development1946-31381946-31462017-05-019220722510.1080/19463138.2017.13244551324455Modeling teleconnected urban social–ecological systems: opportunities and challenges for resilience researchMichail Fragkias0Samia Islam1Christian Sprague2Boise State UniversityBoise State UniversityBoise State UniversityUrban social–ecological systems (SESs) have progressively become more interdependent in their information, resource, material, energy and waste flows. The evolution of those systems has been studied through a variety of concepts (including central place theory, urban ‘metabolism’, etc.). New frameworks on teleconnections have synthesized and extended past theory, but the relevance of the type, degree and spatial structure of the interlinkages for the resilience of urban systems is understudied. We explore the evolving nature of the interlinkages of cities, resource bases and resilience using two approaches: (1) we review literature on urban systems, teleconnections and resilience and (2) we develop scenarios of a stylized network of urban SESs and examine the system-level resilience of each scenario to external shocks using a mathematical biology model. Our results show how factors such as resource consumption, extraction and population migration drive system-wide resilience at different levels of teleconnection of urban systems.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19463138.2017.1324455urbanizationteleconnectionsresiliencerecoverysocial–ecological systemssystems of citiesmodeling |
| spellingShingle | Michail Fragkias Samia Islam Christian Sprague Modeling teleconnected urban social–ecological systems: opportunities and challenges for resilience research International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development urbanization teleconnections resilience recovery social–ecological systems systems of cities modeling |
| title | Modeling teleconnected urban social–ecological systems: opportunities and challenges for resilience research |
| title_full | Modeling teleconnected urban social–ecological systems: opportunities and challenges for resilience research |
| title_fullStr | Modeling teleconnected urban social–ecological systems: opportunities and challenges for resilience research |
| title_full_unstemmed | Modeling teleconnected urban social–ecological systems: opportunities and challenges for resilience research |
| title_short | Modeling teleconnected urban social–ecological systems: opportunities and challenges for resilience research |
| title_sort | modeling teleconnected urban social ecological systems opportunities and challenges for resilience research |
| topic | urbanization teleconnections resilience recovery social–ecological systems systems of cities modeling |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19463138.2017.1324455 |
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