Urban Living Labs and Critical Infrastructure Resilience: A Global Match?

Erick Elysio Reis Amorim (), Monique Menezes and Karoline Vitória Gonçalves Fernandes
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Erick Elysio Reis Amorim: Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration, Getúlio Vargas Foundation, Rio de Janeiro 22231-010, RJ, Brazil
Monique Menezes: Center for Efficiency in Urban Sustainability, Federal University of Piauí, Teresina 64048-500, PI, Brazil
Karoline Vitória Gonçalves Fernandes: Center for Efficiency in Urban Sustainability, Federal University of Piauí, Teresina 64048-500, PI, Brazil

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 16, 1-20

Abstract: The challenges to public policy brought by climate change are some of the biggest challenges for cities around the world. These challenges are costlier and more substantial for low-income communities given the existence of their greater social and economic vulnerability. Among the existing tools, this paper highlights the role played by urban living labs (ULLs), which have been discussed in the literature as a booster of urban resilience in a more sustainable direction. By considering ULLs as strategic institutional arrangements that seek resilience for the critical urban infrastructure challenges of climate change, the main target of this paper is to analyze ULLs as a strategy for increasing critical infrastructure resilience in the region of the Global South. These labs were initiated in developed countries, so we can ask: How are developing countries adapting this strategy in order to mitigate the problems of climate change? To achieve this goal, we reviewed previous literature on ULLs, specifically looking for case studies with ULL projects and highlighting the processes of public innovation policies and transfers of knowledge between countries; in order to complement our empirical analysis, we carried out a case study on Brazil. Despite the limitations of the sample, the data suggest the existence of different barriers to the implementation of ULL projects in Brazil compared to those in European cities.

Keywords: cities; urban living labs; critical infrastructure; innovation; climate change (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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