Janelle Knox-Hayes, Surbhi Agarwal, Johan Arango-Quiroga, Nicholas Ashford, David Birge, Gabriella Carolini, Shekhar Chandra, Colleen Chiu-Shee, Jungwoo Chun, Daniela Coray, Nicholas de Monchaux, Sally Haslanger, Courtney Humphries, Eric Huntley, Caroline A Jones, Deni Lopez, Miho Mazeereuw, Leslie Norford, Prudence Robinson, Haley Schilling, Lawrence J. Vale, Sarah Williams, Rose Winer-Chan
The Equitable Resilience Framework (ERF) strives to make planning for climate change more equitable, just, and effective, and to generate long-term economic, social, cultural, and environmental transformations. “Resilience” is a desirable stance of preparedness in the likely future of unpredictable climate and weather, constituting an explicitly different approach than top-down technocratic solutions (such as hardscaping or levee engineering). The ERF is developed as a methodological guide for resilience planning that combines a capabilities approach with enhanced tradeoff analysis and knowledge convergence to bring community, academic, industry and policy stakeholders together in generating and implementing resilient solutions. The ERF addresses the technocratic shortcomings that have historically guided resilience projects. By reconceptualizing the linkages between resilience and equity in communities the ERF gives researchers and practitioners better theoretical and practical tools for applying resilience to interconnected social systems across different timescales. The ERF aims to facilitate just solutions while empowering communities that are often overburdened by environmental injustice and climate change impacts.