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Papers by Katinka Wijsman

Research paper thumbnail of Governance of and with nature-based solutions in cities

Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks, Aug 8, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of <i>Engineering Vulnerability: In Pursuit of Climate Adaptation</i>

Journal of Anthropological Research, Mar 1, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of Engineering Vulnerability: In Pursuit of Climate Adaptation

Journal of Anthropological Research

Research paper thumbnail of What do we mean by justice in sustainability pathways? Commitments, dilemmas, and translations from theory to practice in nature-based solutions

Environmental Science & Policy

Research paper thumbnail of Repensando os sistemas de conhecimento para a resiliência urbana: Contribuições feministas e decoloniais para transformações justas

Revista X

O trabalho de planejamento da resiliência urbana reconhece a importância da diversidade de conhec... more O trabalho de planejamento da resiliência urbana reconhece a importância da diversidade de conhecimentos para entender e agir sobre a mudança climática, mas fica aquém de se situar adequadamente dentro de processos históricos contínuos que dão forma a campos urbanos irregulares nos quais o planejamento acontece. Este trabalho usa insights das políticas feministas e decoloniais de conhecimento ambiental a fim de desafiar a análise dos sistemas de conhecimento para questionar e alterar explicitamente as estruturas de poder na elaboração do conhecimento ambiental nas cidades norte-americanas. Se a análise dos sistemas de conhecimento pode investigar e intervir nas estruturas de governança através das quais as decisões ambientais e a elaboração de políticas ambientais acontecem, isso exige uma reflexão sobre os compromissos ontológicos, epistemológicos e éticos (ou "pontos de partida"), pois estes carregam um peso material e discursivo: eles abrem e fecham as portas para a prá...

Research paper thumbnail of Operationalizing resilience: co-creating a framework to monitor hard, natural, and nature-based shoreline features in New York State

Ecology and Society, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of The Coevolution of Urban-Agriculture Practice, Planning, and Policy

Research paper thumbnail of Transitioning complex urban systems

Urban Sustainability Transitions, 2017

Research paper thumbnail of Urban agriculture as green infrastructure: the case of New York City

New York’s experience suggests that if productive landscapes are integrated into storm water mana... more New York’s experience suggests that if productive landscapes are integrated into storm water management planning, cities may be able to both reduce storm water flow and resulting water pollution and at the same time support the creation of farms and edible gardens, at a lower cost than traditional storm water adaptation measures would require. The organisational challenge in New York and elsewhere is to affirmatively support urban agriculture projects in green infrastructure programs by prioritising the multidimensional benefits of edible landscapes, including their function as a climate change adaptation strategy as well as for their capacities for storm water absorption.

Research paper thumbnail of Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More Than Human Worlds. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2017, ISBN 978-1-5179-0065-6

Hypatia Reviews Online, 2017

Research paper thumbnail of Rethinking knowledge systems for urban resilience: Feminist and decolonial contributions to just transformations

Environmental Science & Policy, 2019

Work in urban resilience planning recognizes the importance of knowledge diversity to understandi... more Work in urban resilience planning recognizes the importance of knowledge diversity to understanding and acting on climate change, but falls short in adequately situating itself within ongoing historical processes that shape uneven urban playing fields in which planning happens. This paper uses insights from environmental feminist and decolonial knowledge politics to challenge knowledge systems analysis to explicitly question and alter structures of power in environmental knowledge making in North American cities. If knowledge systems analysis can investigate and intervene in governance structures through which environmental decision-and policymaking happen, this necessitates reflection on ontological, epistemological and ethical commitments (or 'starting points') as these carry material and discursive weight: they open up and foreclose ways in which resilience is practiced. Given increasing recognition that urban resilience needs to consider issues of justice and equity, in this paper we take cues from feminist and decolonial scholarship that has centered these themes for decades and which offer 'starting points' to rethink knowledge systems for resilience. Understanding urbanization as key process in the expansion of relations fundamental to the production of anthropocentric climate change, we argue that changing these relations is crucial if urban resilience planning is to contribute to alternative and socially just urban futures. Against tendencies of depoliticization that solutions-oriented work can sometimes exhibit, feminist and decolonial perspectives locate knowledge-making practices squarely within struggles for social justice in the city. We propose three strategies for those working on knowledge systems for resilience to advance their practice: centering justice and transgression, reflexive research practice, and thinking historically. Ultimately, this paper shows that taking seriously critical social sciences furthers fundamentally new ideas for what transitions to urban resilience could mean.

Research paper thumbnail of Business transition management: exploring a new role for business in sustainability transitions

Journal of Cleaner Production, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of How deep does justice go? Addressing ecological, indigenous, and infrastructural justice through nature-based solutions in New York City

Environmental Science & Policy

Research paper thumbnail of Governance of and with nature-based solutions in cities

Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks, Aug 8, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of <i>Engineering Vulnerability: In Pursuit of Climate Adaptation</i>

Journal of Anthropological Research, Mar 1, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of Engineering Vulnerability: In Pursuit of Climate Adaptation

Journal of Anthropological Research

Research paper thumbnail of What do we mean by justice in sustainability pathways? Commitments, dilemmas, and translations from theory to practice in nature-based solutions

Environmental Science & Policy

Research paper thumbnail of Repensando os sistemas de conhecimento para a resiliência urbana: Contribuições feministas e decoloniais para transformações justas

Revista X

O trabalho de planejamento da resiliência urbana reconhece a importância da diversidade de conhec... more O trabalho de planejamento da resiliência urbana reconhece a importância da diversidade de conhecimentos para entender e agir sobre a mudança climática, mas fica aquém de se situar adequadamente dentro de processos históricos contínuos que dão forma a campos urbanos irregulares nos quais o planejamento acontece. Este trabalho usa insights das políticas feministas e decoloniais de conhecimento ambiental a fim de desafiar a análise dos sistemas de conhecimento para questionar e alterar explicitamente as estruturas de poder na elaboração do conhecimento ambiental nas cidades norte-americanas. Se a análise dos sistemas de conhecimento pode investigar e intervir nas estruturas de governança através das quais as decisões ambientais e a elaboração de políticas ambientais acontecem, isso exige uma reflexão sobre os compromissos ontológicos, epistemológicos e éticos (ou "pontos de partida"), pois estes carregam um peso material e discursivo: eles abrem e fecham as portas para a prá...

Research paper thumbnail of Operationalizing resilience: co-creating a framework to monitor hard, natural, and nature-based shoreline features in New York State

Ecology and Society, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of The Coevolution of Urban-Agriculture Practice, Planning, and Policy

Research paper thumbnail of Transitioning complex urban systems

Urban Sustainability Transitions, 2017

Research paper thumbnail of Urban agriculture as green infrastructure: the case of New York City

New York’s experience suggests that if productive landscapes are integrated into storm water mana... more New York’s experience suggests that if productive landscapes are integrated into storm water management planning, cities may be able to both reduce storm water flow and resulting water pollution and at the same time support the creation of farms and edible gardens, at a lower cost than traditional storm water adaptation measures would require. The organisational challenge in New York and elsewhere is to affirmatively support urban agriculture projects in green infrastructure programs by prioritising the multidimensional benefits of edible landscapes, including their function as a climate change adaptation strategy as well as for their capacities for storm water absorption.

Research paper thumbnail of Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More Than Human Worlds. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2017, ISBN 978-1-5179-0065-6

Hypatia Reviews Online, 2017

Research paper thumbnail of Rethinking knowledge systems for urban resilience: Feminist and decolonial contributions to just transformations

Environmental Science & Policy, 2019

Work in urban resilience planning recognizes the importance of knowledge diversity to understandi... more Work in urban resilience planning recognizes the importance of knowledge diversity to understanding and acting on climate change, but falls short in adequately situating itself within ongoing historical processes that shape uneven urban playing fields in which planning happens. This paper uses insights from environmental feminist and decolonial knowledge politics to challenge knowledge systems analysis to explicitly question and alter structures of power in environmental knowledge making in North American cities. If knowledge systems analysis can investigate and intervene in governance structures through which environmental decision-and policymaking happen, this necessitates reflection on ontological, epistemological and ethical commitments (or 'starting points') as these carry material and discursive weight: they open up and foreclose ways in which resilience is practiced. Given increasing recognition that urban resilience needs to consider issues of justice and equity, in this paper we take cues from feminist and decolonial scholarship that has centered these themes for decades and which offer 'starting points' to rethink knowledge systems for resilience. Understanding urbanization as key process in the expansion of relations fundamental to the production of anthropocentric climate change, we argue that changing these relations is crucial if urban resilience planning is to contribute to alternative and socially just urban futures. Against tendencies of depoliticization that solutions-oriented work can sometimes exhibit, feminist and decolonial perspectives locate knowledge-making practices squarely within struggles for social justice in the city. We propose three strategies for those working on knowledge systems for resilience to advance their practice: centering justice and transgression, reflexive research practice, and thinking historically. Ultimately, this paper shows that taking seriously critical social sciences furthers fundamentally new ideas for what transitions to urban resilience could mean.

Research paper thumbnail of Business transition management: exploring a new role for business in sustainability transitions

Journal of Cleaner Production, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of How deep does justice go? Addressing ecological, indigenous, and infrastructural justice through nature-based solutions in New York City

Environmental Science & Policy