Linking participatory learning and knowledge management to urban resilience: introducing the Chance2Sustain programme

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Linking participatory learning and knowledge
management to urban resilience introducing the
Chance2Sustain programme

• Isa Baud
• University of Amsterdam

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Issues in city growth and sustainble development

• Large economic projects currently a preferred
  strategy in city competitiveness
• What does this do to environmental
  sustainability?
• What is the impact on social inequalities?
• How can participatory knowledge management
  contribute to more resilient urban development?
• urban governance as essential context

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Main focus of project

• how governments and citizens in cities with
  different patterns of economic growth use
  participatory spatial knowledge management
  towards more resilient sustainable development
• Comparing variety of political and economic
  conditions in fast-growing cities
• Comparing inclusive social strategies and
  environmental approaches and practices conducive
  to SD
• Develop model on participatory spatial knowledge
  management in urban governance contributing to SD
• ten cities across four countries (India, South
  Africa, Peru and Brazil)
• Methodology city case studies, including
  inter-active knowledge building with local
  communities, practitioners

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Learning from resilience thinking

• Resilient development development that creates,
  enables and sustain services and institutions,
  generating new opportunities for residents,..
  (Dodman 2010).
• Not necessarily bouncing back if situation was
  very unequal
• Resilience system redundancy, diversity,
  flexibility (not locked in pathways), multi-level
  links (landscape, regions, ecosystems),
  supporting self-organizing capacity

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Partners
European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes EADI
Amsterdam Institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies AMIDST
French National Center for Scientific Research CNRS
School of Planning and Architecture SPA
Cities for Life Forum FORO
Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento CEBRAP
Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research NIBR
University of KwaZulu-Natal UKZN
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Participatory knowledge management instrument
to increase adaptive capacity

• Recognizing different types of knowledge
• tacit, practice-based, community-based,
  codified, scientific
• Analyzing knowledge generation through
  participatory processes setting priorities and
  their criteria and recognizing it as political
  process
• Analyzing spaces invited, negotiated,
  claimed
• Participatory spatial mapping reflecting
  spatial diversity, concentrations, relations and
  realities

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Framework
Adapted from Norris et al. 2008