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UN-Habitat poses new challenges for economic geographers by prioritizing transition pathways and projects rather than regions and by focusing on rural–urban linkages and flows in its policy and project initiatives. This chapter identifies the scope of these challenges by reporting research on the replanning and rebuilding of Christchurch, New Zealand following the devastating earthquakes of 2010–2011. Management of the rebuilding of the city using sustainability and resilience principles ran ...UN-Habitat poses new challenges for economic geographers by prioritizing transition pathways and projects rather than regions and by focusing on rural–urban linkages and flows in its policy and project initiatives. This chapter identifies the scope of these challenges by reporting research on the replanning and rebuilding of Christchurch, New Zealand following the devastating earthquakes of 2010–2011. Management of the rebuilding of the city using sustainability and resilience principles ran into resistance, tele-connected with globalization processes, and became entangled in a net of practices, regulations and institutions set in place to facilitate other projects and agendas. This resulted in politically charged tensions as well as challenges for experts. As economic geographers advise on and assess transition pathways for sustainable development, as in this case of rebuilding after disaster, they will need to demonstrate how the desired transformations are entangled in complicated and dynamic economic spaces. Among other things, this will involve: Mapping spatial flows, linkages and partnerships among urban, peri-urban and rural areas; identifying globalization processes that assist or cut across the desired actions; relating transitions to policy practices and constraints; and conceptualizing new terms like “resilience” within economic geography.» weiterlesen» einklappen

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Geographie

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Geowissenschaften