Category Archives: Sustainability and resilience

Social disruption and complexity: Transformative power of crises

Posted on March 10, 2021 by aesopyaadmin

Reading time: 10 minutes Guest authors: Pinar Dörder (chair of the YA Coordination Team; Darmstadt University of Technology) and Flavia Giallorenzo (University of Florence) The Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP)’s Planning and Complexity Thematic Group is an open … Continue reading →

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Scanning for disturbances in Munich: Resilience for the prosperous

Posted on March 1, 2021 by aesopyaadmin

Reading time: 10 minutes Guest author: Markus Stenger (Stenger2, Munich) Editor’s note: This post is a short paper that was submitted to the URNet conference ‘Reframing Urban Resilience and Implementation’ held in Barcelona in the winter of 2018. Summary: To … Continue reading →

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How planners can play a key role in addressing the climate crisis

Posted on February 3, 2021 by aesopyaadmin

Reading time: 4 minutes Editor’s note: This post is part of the permanent call for blog posts to mark the European Climate Pact and Green Deal. Send your contributions about how spatial planning can help leverage climate transition to: blog@aesop-youngacademics.net. … Continue reading →

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Cognitive mapping to understand neighbourhoods – Kenya

Posted on July 16, 2020 by aesopyaadmin

3 min read Editor’s note: This post is the concluding post in a series of entitled ‘Mapping – a tool to build urban resilience’ (see post 1 about community-led heritage mapping, and post 2 about environmental resources mapping for sustainable … Continue reading →

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Environmental resource mapping

Posted on July 8, 2020 by aesopyaadmin

3 min read Guest author: Olga Chepelianskaia (UNICITI) Editor’s note: This post reviews the importance of mapping local environmental resources using diverse data to support agricultural practices in the state of Karnataka (India). The post is the second one in … Continue reading →

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Cartoons for systemic change & recovery

Posted on May 27, 2020 by Ian Babelon

2 min read We normally change only if we have to. A popular idiom encapsulates this: “Necessity is the mother of invention”. If we don’t acutely perceive the need to change, we might just settle for the status quo, and … Continue reading →

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COVID-19 and climate resilience: Effective disaster prevention and management practices 

Posted on April 9, 2020 by aesopyaadmin

Read time: 7 minutes Guest author: Olga Chepelianskaia (UNICITI) Editor’s note: This post shares the findings of two related articles that link the current crisis with climate resilience. These investigate: 1) human encroachment into natural ecosystems; and 2) resilience planning in … Continue reading →

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Digital adaptations & reflections: from people to planet

Posted on March 26, 2020 by Ian Babelon

Read time: 5 minutes In a time of global crisis, the digital keeps us connected and providing us opportunities to adapt and reflect both individually and collectively. This post shares some digital adaptations and reflections that stretch from the individual … Continue reading →

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Top 10 blog posts on the YA blog

Posted on March 18, 2020 by aesopyaadmin

Read time: 2 minutes This post celebrates the top ten blog posts published on the blog of the AESOP Young Academics network since its launch in 2014. It does so by way of a traditional list of the top ten … Continue reading →

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Placemaking: toolkits & books

Posted on March 6, 2020 by Ian Babelon

Read time: 3 minutes This post is a companion to a previous post: Placemaking: trends & people. This post focuses on toolkits, methods, books and handbooks for effective placemaking in a range of contexts, from healthy streets and neighbourhood planning … Continue reading →

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