Abstract
The emergence of the climate change discourse in urban planning emphasises resilience as a key concept to deal with issues such as climate mitigation and adaptation, and urban health. What we have termed in this article ‘green resilience’, the coalescence of technological solutions and resilience thinking to solve cities’ ecological issues, is constantly gaining traction in urban planning research. However, green resilience often fails to take into account the socio-political and spatial processes that pertain to the exploitation of land for urban development particularly in the global South. Based on our latest research on two urban megaprojects, in Johor-Singapore (Malaysia) and Doha (Qatar), in this article we build a critique of green resilience and urbanism by leveraging research in the fields of environmental humanities and urban planning.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1520-1535 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | Urban Studies |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue number | 7 |
| Early online date | 11 Mar 2019 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - May 2020 |
| MoE publication type | A1 Journal article-refereed |
Keywords
- global South
- green resilience
- green urbanism
- megaprojects
