Ulbrich, Philipp (2021) Locating the sustainability and resilience multiple : a cross-scalar case study of the transformative impacts of Sustainable Development Goal 11 localisation. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.

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Abstract

There is little doubt about the correlation between hazard exposure, and urban marginality and informality. Recent global development and risk reduction frameworks, such as the 2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, encourage urban policymakers to address this risk-development nexus by integrating policy siloes and develop interventions that simultaneously promote social and environmental justice. Localised implementation of such globally defined policy goals, notably through participatory exercises with community members and other stakeholders, was an integral methodological aspect of these frameworks. Yet, the localisation approach for the implementation of policies and interventions is not mirrored in monitoring progress towards achieving those goals. Currently, the tendency to rely on centrally defined methods and concepts for monitoring, easily measurable proxies and centrally produced datasets with little meaningful community engagement limits the extent to which evaluation of implementation is transformative at the neighbourhood level. Such a fragmented view of risk reduction and urban development in turn perpetuates intra-urban inequalities. This problem is exacerbated in many cities in the global South where rapid and informal urbanisation processes where risk and intersecting inequalities are highly correlated, and with adopted monitoring approaches commonly based on western conceptualisations and assumptions. As a result, monitoring is not informed by local knowledge and misses opportunities to recalibrate and enhance the frameworks’ local relevance. Moving from the global to the local scale, and based on interviews with global, national and municipal monitoring stakeholders, detailed discussions with community leaders and observational research in three neighbourhoods in Medellín, this thesis investigates how global urban development and resilience monitoring frameworks are localised, and unpacks the extent to which they have resulted in a representative and inclusive picture of urban marginalised communities’ situation in terms of sustainable development and resilience. Overall, the study has produced a set of methodological factors to consider when implementing such monitoring frameworks at the different scales, alongside a surfacing of approaches that might enhance the ability to meaningfully and dialogically translate between the different monitoring scales and strengthen context-relevant and endogenous resilience.

Item Type:	Thesis or Dissertation (PhD)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare T Technology > TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Sustainable development, Urban policy, Hazard mitigation -- Planning, City planning, Urbanization
Official Date:	March 2021
Dates:	Date Event March 2021 UNSPECIFIED
Institution:	University of Warwick
Theses Department:	Department of Computer Science
Thesis Type:	PhD
Publication Status:	Unpublished
Supervisor(s)/Advisor:	Coaffee, Jon ; Porto de Albuquerque, João
Sponsors:	Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council ; University of Warwick. Centre for Doctoral Training in Urban Science and Progress
Format of File:	pdf
Extent:	xii, 222 leaves : illustrations, maps
Language:	eng

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