TY - JOUR
T1 - Modeling Teleconnected Urban Social–Ecological Systems: Opportunities and Challenges for Resilience Research
T2 - opportunities and challenges for resilience research
AU - Fragkias, Michail
AU - Islam, Samia
AU - Sprague, Christian
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2017/5/4
Y1 - 2017/5/4
N2 - Urban social–ecological systems (SESs) have progressively become more interdependent in their information, resource, material, energy and waste flows. The evolution of those systems has been studied through a variety of concepts (including central place theory, urban ‘metabolism’, etc.). New frameworks on teleconnections have synthesized and extended past theory, but the relevance of the type, degree and spatial structure of the interlinkages for the resilience of urban systems is understudied. We explore the evolving nature of the interlinkages of cities, resource bases and resilience using two approaches: (1) we review literature on urban systems, teleconnections and resilience and (2) we develop scenarios of a stylized network of urban SESs and examine the system-level resilience of each scenario to external shocks using a mathematical biology model. Our results show how factors such as resource consumption, extraction and population migration drive system-wide resilience at different levels of teleconnection of urban systems.
AB - Urban social–ecological systems (SESs) have progressively become more interdependent in their information, resource, material, energy and waste flows. The evolution of those systems has been studied through a variety of concepts (including central place theory, urban ‘metabolism’, etc.). New frameworks on teleconnections have synthesized and extended past theory, but the relevance of the type, degree and spatial structure of the interlinkages for the resilience of urban systems is understudied. We explore the evolving nature of the interlinkages of cities, resource bases and resilience using two approaches: (1) we review literature on urban systems, teleconnections and resilience and (2) we develop scenarios of a stylized network of urban SESs and examine the system-level resilience of each scenario to external shocks using a mathematical biology model. Our results show how factors such as resource consumption, extraction and population migration drive system-wide resilience at different levels of teleconnection of urban systems.
KW - Urbanization
KW - modeling
KW - recovery
KW - resilience
KW - social–ecological systems
KW - systems of cities
KW - teleconnections
UR - https://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/econ_facpubs/60
UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/19463138.2017.1324455
U2 - 10.1080/19463138.2017.1324455
DO - 10.1080/19463138.2017.1324455
M3 - Article
SN - 1946-3138
VL - 9
SP - 207
EP - 225
JO - International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development
JF - International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development
IS - 2
ER -