Local Planning Practice towards Resilience: Insights from the Adaptive Co-Management and Design of a Mediterranean Wetland

Emma Salizzoni, Rocío Pérez-Campaña, Fernando Alcalde-Rodríguez and Ruben Talavera-Garcia
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Emma Salizzoni: Dipartimento Interateneo di Scienze, Progetto e Politiche del Territorio, Politecnico di Torino, 10125 Torino, Italy
Rocío Pérez-Campaña: Departamento de Geografía, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Fernando Alcalde-Rodríguez: Buxus, 18600 Motril, Spain
Ruben Talavera-Garcia: Departamento de Geografía, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 7, 1-17

Abstract: Although widely, as well as recently explored, the concept of urban resilience still poses important issues in terms of its operationalization. For this reason, best practices that show how the resilience concept has been turned into planning practice are much needed. This article presents and discusses the case study of the Charca de Suárez Nature Concerted Reserve, an urban wetland situated along the Andalusian coast (Spain), to contribute to filling the gap on the operationalization of urban resilience at the local planning level. In the Charca, an adaptive co-management and design approach has been successfully put into practice to foster local urban resilience. Starting from some recent key studies on planning and management policies for urban resilience, we propose a framework to read, understand and evaluate the Charca experience, and more generally, resilience-based projects. The analysis highlighted the following crucial key aspects for urban resilience in the Charca case study: A collaborative governance model; and the building of community-capitals. The Charca de Suárez Nature Concerted Reserve can actually be acknowledged as an innovative planning practice, a source of inspiration for visions and experiments oriented to urban resilience.

Keywords: urban resilience; wetlands; adaptive co-management approach; planning policies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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