The speaker is a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh in the UK. Within her PhD project she explored different understandings and approaches to urban vulnerability, in particular enhancing climate resilience towards to a sustainable city. She is generally interested in urban planning paradigms and climate vulnerability as she has Urban Engineering Backgrounds (BEng and MEng from Seokyeong University in South Korea) and three years working experience at the Korean Adaptation Centre for Climate Change. Also, in several research projects, she has analysed the formation of a sustainable city and urban flood response & recovery plans.
Presentation Title
How can Urban Communities Ensure Climate Resilience in a Process of Urban Transformation?
Abstract
While burgeoning literature on climate change adaptation and resilient cities has been highlighted in scientific discourses, the discussion of addressing vulnerable communities and whether their needs are integrated into a practical plan is still unfolding. Moreover, the processes of urban transformations do not always fulfil ideals of planning for equity and justice due to a dominant economic impetus of neoliberal redevelopment schemes. For transferring scientific and policy aspects to the actual people at risk, deeper understanding of societal vulnerability is vital. This paper aims to demonstrate how vulnerable communities have hardly been the focus of urban transformations and argues for a thorough and practical consideration of those people in urban regeneration projects through a case study of Glasgow.