Selected Publications
- Fünfgeld H, Lonsdale K, Bosomworth K: Beyond the tools: supporting adaptation when organisational resources and capacities are in short supply Climatic Change, 2019; 153 (4) : 625-641.
- Fünfgeld H: Institutional tipping points in climate change adaptation processes. Journal of Extreme Events, 2017; 4 (1) Suppl. 1750002 : 29p.
- Fünfgeld H: Facilitating local climate change adaptation through transnational municipal networks. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2015; 12: 67-73.
- McEvoy D, Fünfgeld H, Bosomworth K: Resilience and Climate Change Adaptation: The Importance of Framing. Planning Practice and Research, 2013; 28 (3) : 280-293.
- Fünfgeld H, McEvoy D: Resilience as a Useful Concept for Climate Change Adaptation? Planning Theory and Practice, 2012; 13 (2) : 324-328.
FRIAS Project
From ‘sustainable’ to ‘resilient’? The reframing of urban policy and planning in the Anthropocene
This research project traces the reframing of sustainable urban development in urban (social) planning and policy towards the notion of resilience, by examining scholarly and policy-related discourses. By focusing on urban policy designed to improve social welfare and equity, the project investigates, if, when and how resilience language has entered urban planning and policy making in Germany and neighbouring European countries. The overarching aim of this is to take stock of, and critically review, current knowledge on transposing resilience ideas – which predominantly originate in ecological and engineering thinking – into the urban social realm in order to identify how these seemingly superficial changes in political and administrative framing may contribute to (re-)producing socially and materially altered urban spaces. A central question guiding this work thus is: To what extent can and does resilience thinking affect and change social and material urban space and what are the equity dimensions of these reproductions?