Megaprojects and the limits of ‘green resilience’ in the global South: Two cases from Malaysia and Qatar

Agatino Rizzo

Urban Studies, 2020, vol. 57, issue 7, 1520-1535

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.

Keywords: global South; green resilience; green urbanism; megaprojects; å…¨ç ƒå —æ–¹; ç»¿è‰²å¤ åŽŸåŠ›; 绿色城市化; 大型项目 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1177/0042098018812009

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